Contents

  1. Foreword to the Bexley Community Safety Partnership Strategy
  2. What is the Community Safety Partnership?
  3. Achievements from the 2022 to 2025 strategy
  4. Key legislation
  5. Joint strategic assessment 2025
  6. What does the JSA tell us?
  7. Our community
  8. Residents' feedback
  9. BCSP priorities 2026 to 2030
  10. Principles and cross-cutting themes
  11. Priority 1: serious violence
  12. Priority 2: domestic abuse
  13. Priority 3: anti-social behaviour
  14. Priority 4: community reassurance
  15. Working in partnership
  16. Delivery plan and measuring success
  17. Further information

2. What is the Community Safety Partnership?

The Bexley Community Safety Partnership (BCSP) brings together the authorities responsible for local crime and disorder strategies.

The BCSP provides direction, coordination, and a partnership response to deliver activities aimed at reducing crime, disorder, and anti-social behaviour.

BCSP principles are to:

  • facilitate partnership working and information sharing processes between relevant agencies
  • support the development of intelligence around local crime and antisocial behaviour to enable resources to be deployed effectively
  • manage and oversee the BCSP Executive Group, Working Groups, and work processes to bring about reductions in crime, disorder, and antisocial behaviour
  • ensure that all agencies are supporting and training staff for effective partnership delivery

BCSP Membership

Co-Chairs

Cabinet Member for Community Safety, London Borough of Bexley

Statutory Partners:

  • London Borough of Bexley
  • Metropolitan Police Service London
  • Fire Brigade
  • National Probation Service
  • Southeast London ICB
  • Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime

*Non-Statutory Partners:

  • Bexley Safer Neighbourhood Board
  • Bexley Voluntary Service Council
  • Solace Women’s Aid British
  • Education
  • Local Housing Providers
  • Victim Support London

*List non-exhaustive

BCSP Governance

BCSP Board

BCSP Executive Group

Community Safety Operational Partnership

Working Groups

  • Reducing Reoffending Working Group
  • Serious Violence Working Group
  • Domestic Abuse Operational Group
  • Violence Against Women & Girls (VAWG) Working Group
  • Modern Slavery Working Group
  • Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) Working Group

Sub-groups

  • Integrated Offender Management (IOM) Panel
  • Violence Intervention Panel (VIP)
  • Domestic Abuse Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference (DA MARAC)
  • Community Risk Multi-Agence Risk Assessment Conference (CR MARAC)
  • Multi-Agency Child Exploitations (MACE) Panel
  • National Referral Mechanism (NRM) Devolved Decision-Making Panel
  • Anti-Social Behaviour Prevention Panel (ASBPP)