Community Safety Partnership achievements

Community Safety Partnership 12 month review - April 2023 to March 2024

Supporting our communities

• £1,414,038 awarded to the community and voluntary sector through our community grants funding framework, delivering positive outcomes for our communities, £94,214 specifically awarded for early intervention and prevention projects to reduce youth violence and knife crime
• There are now 105 Welcoming Spaces in local and trusted settings, seeing nearly 103,000 attendances and nearly 5,000 referrals for support, including for housing, money, debt and advice and mental health
• 22 funded Chatty Cafes offering face-to-face meetups designed to reduce loneliness and social isolation, in partnership with Action for Happiness
• 22 Good Neighbour Schemes established and run by local people to provide day-to-day support for residents to maintain a good quality of life, remain independent in their own homes if they wish to, and reduce their reliance on statutory health and care support systems, in partnership with Northants ACRE
• Ministry of Justice national finalists for our Well Northants programme, asset based community development approach, working with our communities to tackle inequality in our most deprived areas
• 94 Community Events held in the past 12 months
• The Southbrook Community Centre in Daventry has continued to flourish

Tackling crime

• In Daventry, Operation Unite is addressing persistent Anti-Social behaviour from a large group of young people, which included disruption of and damage to retail premises: criminal charges have been brought against some individuals and work is ongoing to issue ABCs and CPNs to others. Away from enforcement, partners are looking at a range of diversionary activities. We have begun working with Designated Safeguarding Leads in Daventry’s schools to identify individuals in need of early intervention
• The multi-agency Hate and Anti-social behaviour Action groups heard 21 new cases in Daventry and South Northants and 66 in Northampton
• In the past 12 months the Anti-Social Behaviour Team have issued 52 Community Protection Warnings, 21 Community Protection Notices and six Criminal Behaviour Orders, as well as lower level Anti-Social Behaviour Contracts and Advice letters. The team has continued to support the national Anti-Social Behaviour Awareness Week
• The number of reported hate crimes reduced by 12% to stand at 696 for the year
• Hate Crime Week of Action delivered, including engagement stands in high footfall areas in Northampton and Daventry
• Rural Action Group has continued to meet and rural crime no longer appears as a locally identified priority for either the Daventry or South Northants Policing Areas

Working in partnership

• We have renewed five Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPOs) this year and introduced a new PSPO to close Emporium Way in Northampton
• More than £48k invested in improvements to our streets through the second phase of Safer Streets Fund 4 and £11k on Safer Streets Fund 5 projects both being delivered in 2023/24, with some ongoing to deliver a continuation of projects during 2024/25
• Projects delivered in phase 2 (last financial year) of Safer Streets 4 include improvements to street lighting in the town centre, specifically the taxi ranks
• Installation of two new CCTV cameras and upgrading of one camera in a key night-time economy location, and a series of safety messaging lamppost column covers promoting safety initiatives and services
• Safer Streets 5 funding covers the implementation and delivery of a new Taxi Marshal scheme in the town centre on busier Friday and Saturday nights, now extended to cover additional one off event dates highlighted through the Town Centre Task Group
• SSF4 in Bellinge & Blackthorn installed five new CCTV camera in priority areas, upgrades to the underpass lighting and youth provision in Bellinge
• The Street Pastor Scheme continues to operate in Northampton Town Centre, on bank holidays and pay weekends
• Taxi Marshalls are now operating in Northampton town centre on targeted weekends
• Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Board is now established and the Needs Assessment completed to identify gaps in support, especially for those who are in specialist domestic abuse accommodation having left an abusive relationship and a Domestic Abuse Strategy developed and approved, to meet our statutory duties in relation to the Domestic Abuse Act 2021
• Dedicated Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Coordinator is in post to ensure the delivery of the Strategy
• Development of an Action Plan to reflect the priorities of the Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Strategy and multi-agency task and finish groups established to progress and deliver the Action Plan
• 16 Days of activism annual campaign delivered
• Community Safety-Young Peoples Animation is now used by a high number of primary schools across West Northants
• Delivered LGBTQ Pride event in Northampton Town Centre with a high presence from Police, Fire and East Midlands Ambulance Service in both the parade and event space offering reassurance, engagement and promoting hate crime reporting methods. The second Daventry Pride event was also a great success
• The Road Joint Action Group considered 22 new problem localities during 2023/24, with issues such as road layout at accident hotspots, speeding and HGVs in restricted areas
• The annual Comfort and Joy campaign provided gifts and treats to everybody in Refuge and many others, through the generosity of members of the public and officers
• 60 schools have attended the regular situational safeguarding meetings in Northampton and Daventry

You can read the full review and view crime data by ward below.

Quarterly review summaries

Last updated 17 June 2025