Safe Neighbourhoods:
Looking forward to 2009/10

The Council recently refreshed its Corporate Plan. As part of this process a number of sub-themes were identified within each theme. The sub-themes for Safe Neighbourhoods reflect the priorities of the Thanet Community Safety Partnership and have been developed in response to the strategic analysis of patterns of crime and anti-social behaviour in Thanet. The sub themes are:

Violence in the night-time economy:	Reducing actual violent crime and the fear of crime at night.
Domestic abuse:	Reducing domestic abuse, particularly the number of repeat incidents.
Criminal damage:	Bringing levels of criminal damage down to compare more favourably with the rest of Kent.
Anti-Social Behaviour:	Reducing levels of anti-social behaviour so that it has less impact on the lives of local residents.
Involving Residents:	Working with residents to deal with their concerns by involving them in improving safety in their local neighbourhoods.

For details of the new projects identified through the refresh please look at the Corporate Plan. The following table provides an update for the top 5 indicators identified against this theme through the refresh:

Key

	On target
	Target missed

			2008-09 Performance			Future Targets
PI Ref.	Description	Service Area	Target	Actual	PI Status	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12
NI015	Number of most serious violent crimes per 1,000 population	Community Services	1.65	0.84		1.58	1.51	1.47
NI021	Percentage of residents who believe that the local concerns about anti-social behaviour and crime are dealt with by the local council and police	Community Services	No baseline to set target against	Awaited from DCLG*	N/A	No survey	TBC	No survey
NI024	Satisfaction with the way the police and local council dealt with anti-social behaviour	Community Services	No baseline to set target against	Deleted	N/A	Since our decision to prioritise this indicator the government has deleted it from the National Indicator set
NI032	Percentage of domestic violence cases reviewed by a MARAC that are repeat cases	Community Services	No baseline to set target against	48.20%	N/A	46.5	45.0	43.5
LI035	Number of incidents of criminal damage per 1,000 population	Community Services	25.92	21.9		24.84	23.76	22.80