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Terms of Reference for the Crime and Communities Review

Engaging communities in fighting crime

A policy review reporting to the Home Secretary, the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, the Secretary of State for Justice, the Minister for the Cabinet Office, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.

The aim is to understand how local communities, the police, the local criminal justice agencies and other local partners can best work together to:

A key strand of the review would analyse how to engage individuals, including young people, across the whole range of issues that affect their feelings of safety in the community.

The review should make recommendations on improving local accountability, increasing local engagement (including willingness to support law enforcement through the provision of evidence) and developing new approaches to problem solving.

The review shall take full account of the Ten Year Youth Strategy, the work already underway as part of Sir Ronnie Flanagan’s review of policing, the current roll out of Neighbourhood Policing and work of the National Policing Improvement Agency in this area, and shall examine how best to build on the success of Neighbourhood Policing and transfer good practice across all crime fighting agencies including local authority, the Third Sector etc.

The review team will be drawn from all departments with an interest and led from the Cabinet Office by Louise Casey.

The review will report by June 2008.