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Community Safety and Resilience

Delivery Groups · Community Safety & Resilience

About Community Safety and Resilience

Community safety and resilience is a wide-ranging issue comprising of both prevention and intervention activities. It includes reducing the likelihood of all types of emergencies occurring, reducing the likelihood of criminal activity and having the appropriate plans and models in place to support and deliver the required interventions. Importantly, it is also about providing communities with firstly the knowledge of the risks in their area and then equipping them with the skills, guidance and confidence to improve self-sufficiency and to become stronger and more resilient.

The Community Safety & Resilience Delivery Group is currently chaired by Judy Hill, Partnerships Superintendent for Highland and Islands Division of Police Scotland.

Plans & Priorities

This outcome focuses on delivering improved Community Safety and Resilience and on keeping the most vulnerable people in our communities’ safe, including what the community and wider CPP can do to support this.

The Highland Outcome Improvement Plan 2017 – 2027 outlines the four overarching themes to drive the work of the Community Safety and Resilience group;

  • Community Led Action; Resilience/Inclusion/Response – There is support for communities across Highland to increase their collective resilience and the resilience of people living within that community. Stronger partnerships between the CPP and communities will enable communities to build appropriate responses to the risks that are particular to them.
  • Collaborative Training Opportunities – To share training across agencies, sectors and communities will help to strengthen support, delivery and co-operation.
  • Information Sharing and Collaborative Approaches – More can be done to share information across our public sector agencies where doing so would help to reduce the impact of an individual’s vulnerabilities. Working with communities will help to identify the people who are most likely to need support, and this will assist in providing or signposting the right support and services.
  • Digital Safety and Awareness – With all the advantages of digital technology there remains concern about the lack of awareness around how to maintain personal and family safety and security when using it. The provision of information and targeted guidance, the delivery of training and appropriate awareness raising can be used to improve safety and security without creating unnecessary fear.

A copy of the Highland Community Safety and Resilience Action Plan for 2023-2026 can be downloaded here

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