1. Unleashing Community Potential
Releasing latent community capacity to strengthen your community
www.c2connectingcommunities.co.uk
SOCIETY LOCAL COUNCIL CLERKS
WEBINAR 3
THE STORY OF ABC: A BETTER CLIFTONVILLE: ‘THE
POWER OF SIMPLY LISTENING TO A COMMUNITY’
WITH HAZEL STUTELEY, PAUL MORGAN, MARTIN SKEET & KAY BYATT
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3. Group Manager Martin Skeet
Kent Fire & Rescue Service
Tactical Lead Officer
Inspector Mark Pearson
Kent Police
Deputy Lead Officer
4. Margate Task Force - 30 Staff
Kent County Council (KCC) Community
Wardens
KCC Social Services (Children)
KCC Trading Standards
Police
Kent Fire & Rescue Service
Probation Service
Job Centre Plus (DWP)
TDC Housing
NHS – Public Health (GP, Health Trainers,
Health Visitor, Community Psychiatric
Nurse)
Family Intervention Workers (Troubled
Families)
Kent Council for Addiction ( KCA &
Turning Point)
Thanet District Council (TDC)
Enforcement Services
Global Generation – Pipeline,
Community Action Teams, Community
Pastors
United Kingdom Border Agency
CXK (16-18 yo NEETS)
Thanet Community Networks
5. Challenges/Problem Spaces
• Benefit Changes
• Placement of Vulnerable People &
Poverty
• Homes of Multiple Occupancy
• Organised Crime
• Extreme Health Inequalities
11. Gangs’ Co-operative
Russians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Orientals, local white English – Cannabis
Cultivation
Czechs, Slovaks, Czech Roma, Slovak Roma, local white English, Local
Afro-Caribbeans, London Afro-Caribbeans – supply and distribution
Heroin, Cocaine, Pervitin, MDMA
Local and London Borough Polish – organised Shoplifting
Pakistanis and Czech/Slovak Roma – Handling Stolen Goods from drug
generated crime and ‘Sham Marriages’
London Afro-Caribbeans and London white English – transportation of
Class A Drugs into Thanet from London
12. Housing Profile
80+% privately rented
45% single person occupancy
60% of dwellings are flats
Numerous HMOs
50+% fail Decent Homes
Standard
800+ empty properties
13. Youth Crime
Financial Year 2011/12.
Looked After Children (LAC) known to Youth Offending Service: -
52 LAC (10 Kent, 42 Other Local Authority)
Registered Childrens Homes (current residents 11 in total): -
1 Kent, the remainder - 3 Suffolk, 1 Essex, 1 Southwark, 1 Lambeth, 1
Wokingham, 1 Barnet, 1 Buckinghamshire, 1 Warwickshire
Thanet Youth Court (1 week sample): -
Total of 9 clients (6 LAC - 1 Southwark, 2 Medway, 2 Essex, 1 Kent)
Justice Cost of LAC in one week - £15,000 plus associated JCP and medical
costs locally
Thanet Annual LAC Cost £780,000
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15. Almost 600 Ambulance Pick-Ups (only 4 specific categories): -
Assault
Overdose & Poisoning
Mental Health – Suicide Attempt
Stab/Shot/Penetrative Trauma (incl. Arm and Hand Stabbing)
Mental Health ‘Heat Map’ (based on 1 local Surgery’s data)
Ambulance Pick-Ups (1 year period)
16. Drain on public resources
Social services
◦ Vulnerable adults
◦ Looked After Children
◦ Drug and alcohol abusers
◦ Mental health problems
PCT
◦ Health inequalities
◦ Admissions to A&E
Police
- Crime levels
- Social cohesion
Probation Service
- Management of ex-offenders
Education
-Poor attainment
- High turnover in schools
- Teenage pregnancies
Thanet DC
- Street cleaning
- Waste management
- Homelessness
- Supported housing
- HMO registration
- Empty Properties
- Regulation of private
landlords
- Housing Benefits
