Local Activities
As already mentioned, the City Council's move to an increasingly devolved structure, with ten Constituencies taking on many responsibilities for service delivery, has progressed dramatically during the last three years. Constituency Committees of Elected Members now have a key role while Local Strategic Partnerships, known as Constituency Strategic Partnerships, are being established at a Constituency level. This has focussed the Community Safety Partnership's attention on the need to ensure that the community safety strategy for the city is delivered at a local level, so that local priorities can be progressed and to enable community involvement. However, it remains essential that there is oversight of the situation in the City as a whole, if activity is to be effectively targeted and co-ordinated and if nationally determined performance targets are to be achieved.
In response to this, Local Delivery Groups (LDGs) have been established in each of the 10 Constituencies in Birmingham.
These are partnership based community safety forums, comprising members of Partnership agencies, representatives of business, community and voluntary sectors and in some cases, elected Members.
The LDGs:
• ‘Own’ the responsibility for actually delivering the core partnership priorities to local communities;
• Identify and agree locally determined priorities that deal with local circumstances and needs; and
• Resource, mainstream or otherwise, the co-ordination of activity to address local priority targets.
Clicking on an area of the map below will take you to the relevant LDG: