Agenda item

Report of the Head of Community Safety Team

The Group considered a report of the Community Safety Team Manager that detailed the outcomes of a Home Office case review following a serious incident.

The Chairman noted that items within the Action Plan were not complete, and yet were greyed out within the table.  He asked that this not happen in future.  The Chairman also declared his support for the useful work achieved.

In reference to Item 11 within the action plan, the Director of Port Health and Public Protection requested that a draft copy of the Information Sharing Protocol, which had previously been made available to other groups, to be circulated to the Safer City Partnership Strategy Group. (4)

The Deputy Chairman warned of the danger of perceiving the Information sharing Protocol agreement as a silver bullet that would guarantee effective inter-departmental cooperation.  He stated that although it would serve to eliminate justifications for failing to do so, efforts to consciously engage in information sharing, regardless of cultural differences, would still remain the determining factor.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted, and the Group approve the recommendations to:

a)    Read the comments and considerations from the Home Office Quality Assurance Panel and agree the response;

b)    Agree to publish the outcomes of the Case Review following a Serious Incident via the Safer City Partnership papers, on the City of London Corporation website;

c)    Review the progress of the action plan for implementing the learning recommendations created by the Case Review Following a Serious Incident Panel, found in Appendix 1.