East Sussex remains a safe place to live, work and visit. The East
Sussex Safer Communities Partnership aims to protect our
communities against harm and build their resilience against crime,
disorder and the effects of substance misuse. Connecting and
supporting partnerships spanning private, public and voluntary
sectors is essential to this effort and recognises that tackling
risk and vulnerability must be proactive, inclusive and
forward-looking.
Many people in East Sussex live with complex and interconnected
needs including mental and physical ill-health, substance misuse,
insecure accommodation, social isolation and loneliness. Over
2020/21 many more people have become unexpectedly vulnerable while
those already vulnerable have been at risk of further isolation and
anxiety. Meanwhile criminals continually adapt their methods to
exploit others for personal gain based on changes in our
community’s vulnerabilities.
Community safety suffers where professionals struggle to identify
and support vulnerable people who may not engage with public or
voluntary services; these risks and vulnerabilities therefore often
remain unseen, unclear or misunderstood. Fostering meaningful
relationships with vulnerable people, bringing perpetrators of
crime and anti-social behaviour to account, and educating everyone
about risk and harm prevention are central to improving community
safety and confidence.
This partnership brings partners from Adults and Children’s
Services, district & borough councils, Health & Social
Care, Police, Probation and other partners to identify and tackle
the most impactful problems affecting community safety. This Plan
sets out how we are encouraging new, more consequential
relationships with partners who can approach community safety in
refreshing and productive ways.
In the last year
our partners have worked together to plan new strategies for
community safety based on several upcoming changes at national
level:
·
Readings of the
Police, Crime Sentencing & Courts Bill, placing new duties on
schools, police, councils and health authorities to prevent serious
violence
·
Enactment of The
Domestic Abuse Act, reforming how key agencies empower victims of
domestic abuse and reform the behaviour of perpetrators
·
The National Probation
Service (NPS) and regional Community Rehabilitation Companies
(CRCs) merging in June 2021
·
Changes to the Channel
management process under the government’s Prevent
anti-extremism program, giving more responsibility and autonomy to
local government safeguarding
panels
·
New recommendations
arising from an independent review of the Modern Slavery
Act
Over 2021 and 2022 our plans, priorities and partners will evolve
to address the challenges that our communities face and the
expertise available to do so.
Our Partners, Roles & Responsibilities
The
East Sussex Safer Communities Partnership brings together local
authorities, the NHS East Sussex CCG, Sussex Police and other
statutory and non-statutory partners to share resources and discuss
strategic priorities.
Following
the 2007 Crime & Disorder Regulations multi-tier authorities
like those in East Sussex created a county-wide strategy group to
coordinate community safety priorities across its partners. Our
East Sussex Safer Communities Partnership is accountable for its
achievements and areas for further development through East Sussex
County Council’s lead member for Adult Social Care to its
Scrutiny Committee. We also work closely with our Public Health
colleagues to develop strategies in areas such as drug and alcohol
treatment.
This setup offers greater opportunities to consult with the
organisations we bring together from within East Sussex’s
districts and boroughs, whose own plans guide and support our
overall priorities:
District & Borough Community Safety Partnerships
(CSPs)
Safer Wealden Partnership
Eastbourne & Lewes Community Safety
Partnership
Safer Hastings Partnership
Safer Rother Partnership
Each
of these local partnerships are themselves formed from a range of
public service, health, policing, and voluntary & community
sector (VCS) organisations. They conduct their own strategic
assessments and publish plans to address the priorities identified
in their local area.
The
Sussex Police & Crime Plan
sets out the strategic police and crime priorities for how policing
services will be delivered in Sussex across 2021/24.
Sussex
Police uses its yearly Operational Delivery Plan to outline how it
will deliver the objectives set out in its new Police & Crime
Plan to protect local communities, prosecute criminals and provide
effective support to victims, witnesses and the public.
East
Sussex Fire & Rescue Service’s
Safer Communities Business
Plan sets out its main commitments to
better utilise its resources to educate and empower the public
through its wider Prevention activities, including and delivering
Home Safety Visits to reduce risk within the home.
Her
Majesty’s Prisoner & Probation Service (HMPPS)
Business
Plan and
Business
Strategy sets out the main objectives and
performance measures in its strategy to reduce reoffending and
improve public protection by integrating the core aims and
resources of its constituent agencies
The
East Sussex Health and Social
Care Plan outlines how the NHS East Sussex
CCG - formed from the merging of three CCGs in East Sussex in April
2020 - will reduce local health inequalities and deliver
sustainable long-term health & social care support. This sets
out partnership priorities including improving outcomes for
vulnerable and/or disadvantaged adults and specialist support for
vulnerable children and young people, including action on County
Lines.
By having this partnership of agencies – many of whom are
themselves multi-agency partnerships - we can share experience and
expertise in ways which allow our combined efforts and ambitions to
be far greater than can be realised by working alone.
The advantages of this type of partnership-working can include
making large joint bids for government or charitable funding,
identifying regional changes in the
activities of criminals or vulnerable people, and an improved
ability to horizon-scanning for new trends and themes affecting
local hotspots or larger regions.
To help identify where other partners’ ideas and priorities
are shared, this partnership also has a Joint Partnership Protocol
in place with East Sussex Safeguarding Adults
Board, the East
Sussex Safeguarding Children Partnership,
the
East Sussex Health and Wellbeing Board and
East Sussex Children and Young
People’s Trust.
To ensure the voices of local young people are included in
community safety planning, the
East Sussex Youth
Cabinet develops peer consultation
including the Make Your Mark Survey to develop strategies to take
on issues which our young people wish our partnerships to
highlight.
Our partnerships identify East Sussex’s key priorities for
community safety every year by completing a Strategic Assessment of
Community Safety. This process analyses statistical data from
public agencies and residents’ surveys as well as bringing
together assessments completed by other agencies and looking at new
and upcoming legislation. Through this rigorous process we can scan
for emerging trends across health, crime and public confidence in
East Sussex and compare against trends at regional and national
level.
By looking within East Sussex and to wider political and economic
contexts we can re-examine our priorities or adopt new ones based
on the level of risk to our residents, how likely they are to grow
in scale and how interconnected they are to other factors affecting
our community’s safety.
As
criminals adjust their modus operandi in response to our
communities adopting remote, digital lifestyles we are creating new
means and resources to identify, challenge, divert and prosecute
them as well as safeguard our vulnerable people.
As
the UK’s response to Brexit unfolds over 2021 we anticipate
significant changes in how certain forms of criminal activity and
disorder including modern slavery & human trafficking (MSHT)
and violent extremism develop.
As
our partnerships have adapted their services due to COVID-19 we
have seen that changes to employment, community services and mental
and physical health disproportionate affected our most vulnerable
people.
The
longer-term health, social and behavioural effects of COVID-19 will
take years to develop and will require more focused and proactive
collaboration across our partnerships to identify and
address.
Using this information partners have agreed the following four
areas as priorities:
·
Serious Organised Crime, including County Lines, Modern Slavery
& Human Trafficking, and Fraud Related Harm
·
Serious Violent Crime, including Knife Crime
·
Domestic Violence & Abuse, Rape & Sexual Violence and
Abuse, Stalking & Harassment and Harmful Practices
·
Drugs and Alcohol Related Harm
By considering the key recommendations of our Strategic Assessment
and those completed by our partners across their specialist areas,
our Partnership is also placing focus on improving outcomes in the
following workstreams:
·
Preventing Violent Extremism
·
Anti-Social Behaviour & Hate Crime
Running across all these themes is the use of social media and
other digital technology. Our partners are all proactive in
using social media to communicate between partnerships and with our
communities.
All our partners continue to commit to expanding and improving
access to this incredibly useful technology, educate the public
about its uses and offer protection and support against its
potential risks and dangers.
Some areas not listed in this document as priorities or partnership
workstreams, including support for street communities, are overseen
by other partnership structures like our district & borough
Community Safety Partnerships (CSPs).
Measuring Progress
·
Creating
resilient, cohesive communities adaptable to shock as well as to
gradual changes in risk
·
Improving
confidence in vulnerable people and our wider community &
promoting integration by improving communication, education and
encouraging the reporting of harmful, risky or beneficial
behaviour
·
Reducing
vulnerability to harm, fear or harm and knocks in confidence for
individuals, families &
communities
Serious
Organised Crime
Reduce the vulnerability of
individuals and communities to being drawn into or becoming victims
of organised crime by supporting whole-community approaches which
combine policing, education and social services
Serious
Violent Crime
Break up patterns and cycles of
violent crime - especially knife crime – by creating and
sustaining multi-agency partnerships which are better at sharing
intelligence, supporting victims, rehabilitating offenders and
intervening earlier when our community identifies at-risk
people
Domestic
& Sexual Violence & Abuse
Challenge and end cycles of abuse by
creating working environments which give professionals more time
and resources to identify and understand vulnerable peoples’
specific needs, create safe-spaces and adopt criminal justice
strategies to challenge and reform the behaviour of
offenders
Drugs &
Alcohol-Related Harm
Create long-lasting reductions to the
harm caused by substance misuse in our communities including social
isolation, crime and health risks through a combination of
outreach, treatment/recovery, diversion and enforcement approaches
which support vulnerable people, their families and
communities
Violent
Extremism
Reduce the power and reach and
extremist networks through outreach, education and early
intervention, including risk-assessing vulnerable people and
creating networks which identify extremist behaviour and break
apart its links to violence and other serious
crime
Reducing
Reoffending
Foster supportive and safe
communities by reducing the risk and seriousness of reoffending,
through bringing together agencies to consider accommodation as a
major pillar in aiding released prisoners to access community
services and transition to civilian life
Anti-Social
Behaviour (ASB) & Hate Crime
Enable our households and communities
to remain safe by identifying hotspots where incidents and patterns
of anti-social behaviour, hate and abuse occur, alongside creating
effective enforcement strategies and coordinating services for
young and at-risk people to offer education and prevention
Road
Safety
Reduce deaths and serious injuries by
ensuring that road networks are safe, drivers are properly educated
and incentivised against unnecessary risk-taking or anti-social
driving, and ensuring road infrastructure remains fit for
purpose
Some of the measures our partnerships monitor are in
Appendix A,
which we report through
our Safer Communities Board.
Serious Organised
Crime
Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking (MSHT) covers a range of
offences including forced criminality, labour exploitation,
domestic servitude and sexual trafficking as well as the
recruitment and movement of victims by force, deception or
coercion. Suspected cases are reported through a voluntary National
Referral Mechanism (NRM) to the Home Office.
Our partnerships are addressing this extremely harmful criminal
activity by creating and sharing educational support with
charities, public services and law enforcement. This aims to
uncover and break apart the real and potential connections of MSHT
to drug and alcohol misuse including the use of violence to ensure
cooperation and ill-treatment in domestic environments.
Over
2020/21 our partnerships have
been:
·
Providing
training to ESCC councillors based on Local Government Association
guidance about the role they can
play in raising awareness of modern slavery and embedding work to
tackle modern slavery within
councils
·
Collaborating
across the Sussex Anti-Slavery Network to create action plans
ensuring all of East Sussex’s local authorities maintain
their pledges to end modern slavery, human trafficking and
exploitative child labour in the county, under United Nations Global Sustainable Development
Goal
8.7
·
Introducing
specific communication for Single Points of Contact (SPOCs)
to
provide updates around policy, practice and support
developments
·
Developing
the ESCC modern slavery internal group by welcoming more
departmental representatives and delivering bespoke training to
frontline staff to ensure its core focus remains steady under the
Modern Slavery Act
Project
Discovery
Project Discovery brings together
enforcement agencies, district & borough councils and other
local organisations to identify and disrupt organised crime, human
trafficking and modern slavery. This year it has particularly
focused on identifying dangerous and unlicensed House of Multiple
Occupancy (HMOs) and business premises.
The labour exploitation sector has
seen a rise in workers failing to be provided with adequate safety
equipment e.g. forced to live on site with no hot water or washing
facilities. There have been examples of this in East Sussex.
Recently a company was found to be doing such at a derelict shop in
Eastbourne. A new working connection with the Health and Safety
Executive meant probation notices were issued on the company and
building, leading to the landlord removing the company off the
site.
Discovery are also forming a joined-up
approach with Enterprise, a joint agency program ran by the
Metropolitan Police to explore the sector in further details,
visiting sites of concern and acting wherever possible.
Discovery’s partnership working
has also allowed intelligence-gathering from across law enforcement
and the local community to identify and track key people suspected
of supplying boats to cross-Channel smugglers. By combining local
knowledge and the resources of Border Force and other agencies the
project made arrests and broke apart a small but significant
international smuggler supply network across Kent and Sussex, with
prosecutions brought by the NCA.
We are expanding our work throughout 2021/22 by:
·
Developing bespoke
training for all relevant commissioners to safeguard against modern
slavery or human trafficking practices in their supply
chains
·
Exploring new
opportunities to support the Sussex
Anti-Slavery Network’s ongoing development, including Modern
Slavery Workshops giving practical guidance about recognition,
reporting and prevention across the partnership
·
Delivering training to
the Single Point of Contact Modern Slavery Network in partnership
with the East Sussex Safeguarding Adults
Board
·
Developing further
interventions through Project Discovery from its origins in
Hastings & Rother to disrupt modern slavery across East Sussex
and safeguard victims against further exploitation or
abuse
Fraud and scams constitute the
most common form of crime in the UK yet remains severely
under-reported. People and businesses experience harm from
financial loss and from the anxiety, mistrust and embarrassment
coming from being cheated out of money, time and trust.
Over 2020 and 2021 the need for
families and businesses to complete online transactions has caused
a rise in cyber-enabled shopping, banking and investment fraud. The
broad range of people using social media and online
shopping/banking tools means that no age group is especially immune
to being victims of fraud.
In 2020 more than 3,400 reports of
fraud were made to Action Fraud, the UK’s referral mechanism
for reporting fraudulent activity for businesses or individuals,
resulting in £14.3million in losses.
Sussex Police’s Operation Signature notes that vulnerable
victims in East Sussex are targeted most by courier fraud –
usually coming from calls or emails from criminals posing as civil
servants or banks – as well as by doorstep scammers and
telephone fraudsters. Trading Standards has reported 60 cases of
doorstep crimes being reported in the financial year up to March
2021.
The 100+ members of the East
Sussex Against Scams Partnership (ESASP) continues to share
real-time intelligence to meet its aims of de-stigmatising scams,
identifying new trends and coordinating prevention and protection
programs. Organisations like the Sussex Neighbourhood Watch
Federation support the ESASP by using its own email and newsletter
networks to showcase other partners’ key scams & fraud
prevention messages to tens of thousands of subscribers.
Our work throughout 2020 and 2021
has included:
·
Holding
an ESASP engagement event with partners from Sussex Police, The
Involvement Matters Team, Sussex Elder Abuse Recovery Service and
Age UK jointly contributing updates on emerging trends and good
practice
·
Using
Facebook, Twitter and online newsletters to publicise local
campaigns such as call-blocker projects & the scam mail
Scamnesty in
support of the National Trading Standards (NTS) Scams Team
·
Sharing online
resources with our ESASP Charter Partners to build local resilience
against COVID-related fraud & scams as well as other
commercial, relationship and other cyber-enabled fraud
Over 2021/22 our partnerships
are:
·
Exploring
new opportunities to diversify the range of our ESASP Charter
Partners to help us create tailored, local scams & fraud
awareness-raising activities
·
Supporting
ESCC’s Being
Digital Strategy by exploring national initiatives like
the Get Safe Online
programme, which provides easy-to-understand information about
cyber-crime and cyber-safety through social media campaigns, staff
awareness training and web resources
·
Delivering
more awareness-raising resources across our partnerships to
encourage the proactive management of emerging trends in fraud
&
scams
·
Giving
further preventative training to frontline workers and community
groups who may be in the position to spot cyber-enabled crime, or
may themselves be vulnerable to it
East Sussex remains vulnerable to organised crime groups setting up
large, flexible networks, often including children and vulnerable
adults coerced into permitting their homes being used to deal drugs
(known as cuckooing) or being used as agents to sell drugs across
county lines. Our partnerships bring together agencies from
across
police, education, Children’s Services and community
safety
to identify people at risk and provide
targeted interventions to children and families at risk of
exploitation.
Much of our partnerships’ work supporting young people and
their families is undertaken through developing an contextual
safeguarding approach, which recognise that
schools, neighbourhoods and peer relationships
as
well as families must be included when considering how to safeguard
vulnerable people from abuse and exploitation.
The Multi-Agency Child Exploitation (MACE) subgroup of the
East Sussex Safeguarding Children’s Partnership
coordinates much of the partnerships’ work in identifying key
areas where support is needed to support children and families most
at risk of being exploited by criminals under a four-tier approach
(prepare, prevent, protect, and pursue)
A multi-agency core of professionals including police, Child &
Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), Children’s
Services and others work to identify local patterns of risk and
develop effective education and early-intervention tools services
to equip children and families with the skills needed to make safe
and healthy choices, avoid situations which increase the risk of
exploitation and report concerns when they feel they or anyone else
may be at risk.
From April 2020 to January 2021, 51 young people have been
discussed at MACE, with 63% aged 15 or 16 (32 children), with most
young people coming from the larger towns of Eastbourne (16) and
Hastings (16) as well as Wealden (14).
A total of 1,340 reports of missing children episodes were made
between April 2020 and January 2021, creating an extra 18 reports
every month compared to 2019/20. These numbers represent a
long-term trend where more young people are considered at risk
across many different forms of child exploitation.
Over 2020/21 our partnerships have
been:
·
Refreshing
the Safer East Sussex Stay
Safe Directory – the county’s community
safety education publication - to expand the list of workshops and
education resources available from local organisations to help
professionals educate and safeguard young people against crime and
exploitation
·
Supporting
the Hailsham Contextual Safeguarding project by setting up
awareness-raising activities for schools, youth groups, businesses
and licensed premises, including preventative work on underage
alcohol sales, education child-labour legislation and presentations
on illegal
drugs
·
Delivering
Against Exploitation workshops in schools around criminal
exploitation and virtual sessions for parents on criminal
exploitation and County Lines in Uckfield
·
Developing
multi-agency cuckooing interventions by bringing together Sussex
Police, Adult Social Care, substance misuse services and other
partners to disrupt County Lines networks and devise new strategies
to safeguard vulnerable victims
By developing
this work and looking ahead to 2021/22 we will:
·
Continue
to develop and deliver interventions to schools and the wider
community as part of local contextual safeguarding arrangements
with partners to safeguard young people who are at risk of being
exploited by organised
criminals
·
Build
resilience in our communities to serious and organised crime by
showing them what it looks like, where it might happen and how to
report it by delivering a Communities Against Exploitation
Campaign
·
Develop
further tolls to educate young people and families on tips to avoid
and report serious and organised crime by delivering Against
Exploitation Workshops, so they can recognise exploitative and
abusive relationships and situations and know where to get help if
they need it
Serious Violent Crime, including
Knife Crime
Reducing the number of serious violent incidents - and the number
of people at risk of being victims or perpetrators of serious
violence - is a key focus in East Sussex, one in which is partners
feel must be done under a public-health approach which target the
causes of violence at their source, involving the entire
community.
Across East Sussex all violent crime (including
sexual offences and violence not causing injury) rose 3.1% in the
year to September 2020, with knife crime increasing dramatically
following the easing of some lockdown measures in May
2020.
All serious violence offences – those causing death or
serious injury – rose 10% (364 offences), and 330 serious
knife crimes – violent crimes where blades or pointed
instruments were used – were reported across East Sussex.
Threats to kill using a knife rose 57% in this time, following
disturbing national trends.
The primary focus of serious violence reduction in East Sussex is
on shaping prevention and early-intervention work, with an emphasis
on people who frequently carry weapons in public or are linked to
drug use/supply in relation to organised crime. Adopting this
approach enables our partnerships to more critically examine
incidents of serious violent crime which are linked to other
offences to shape how Policing, Health and other services intervene
earlier and reduce the number of these crimes and the harms they
cause.
In 2019 the Sussex policing area was given funding to establish a
Violence
Reduction Partnership (VRP).
This brought together police, local government, Public Health,
community leaders and other partners and is in place for all
partners to gain greater insight into the root causes of local
violent crime and how to break apart patterns of
violence.
Strategies being developed across East Sussex support what we
anticipate the Government’s new requirements will be for a
specific public-health duty for authorities to tackle serious
violence, covering working between police, local councils, local
health bodies, Education and Youth Offending Services.
By
creating and growing these partnerships over 2020/21 we will ensure
that relevant services work together to share data, field
intelligence and experience to understand and address the root
causes of serious violence, including knife crime. New guidance
will be published in due course to support the legislation and the
East Sussex VRP will be at the forefront of this work.
Over 2020/21 our partnership has been:
·
Developing
the East Sussex VRP Action Plan and Outcomes Framework –
adopting a public-health approach - to identify and tackle the
risks and vulnerabilities to individuals and communities posed by
serious violence
·
Directing
funding to support local charities to support the design and
delivery of targeted activities for young people at risk of being
drawn into serious violence in hotspot areas in Hastings and
Eastbourne
·
VRP
funding was awarded to Children’s Services for projects
at:
o
College
Central sites across East Sussex using Youth Offending Team (YOT)
practitioners, engaging students with specialised offending and
exploitation-themed
sessions
o
Developing
key-work intensive family services to provide for children within
the MACE (Multi-Agency Child Exploitation) cohort, creating
whole-system strategies for whole families to reduce the risk of
serious violence
·
Creating
detailed problem profiles of hotspots in Eastbourne and Hastings
alongside focused victim & perpetrator models to create action
plans to target local prevention and enforcement
Throughout
2021/22 we will build upon our learning by:
·
Collaborating
across prison, probation, Health and Adults’ &
Children’s Services to expand the East Sussex VRP’s
scope, including developing an integrated plan to rehabilitate
violent offenders, improve the confidence and knowledge of young
people and break links between serious violence, drugs and
anti-social behaviour & Hate Crime
·
Improving
intelligence-sharing across our partners to develop perpetrator
profiles - highlighting offenders’ risks, vulnerabilities and
social networks – to inform the development, targeting and
evaluation of prevention activity
·
Sharing
the lessons learnt from East Sussex VRP projects across our
partnerships to ensure local authorities and their networks are
aware of pre-emptive opportunities to intervene where children,
young people & adults are at risk of committing serious
violence or suffering its
effects
·
Support
partner organisations to engage with local communities by providing
access to networks, educational tools and support to empower them
to actively take part in tackling issues that affect
them
·
Aiming
to expand the work done by street pastors in Eastbourne and
Hastings by supporting Safe Space – an NHS-commissioned
service providing safe spaces for people vulnerable in the
night-time economy due to injury, substance intoxication or seeking
refuge from abuse or violence – and expanding its ability to
offer services to all age groups
Domestic Violence
& Abuse, Rape & Sexual Violence and Abuse, Stalking,
Harassment and Harmful Practices
Our partnerships continue creating new multi-agency structures to
give timely, vigorous, and sustained support to survivors of all
forms of domestic and sexual violence.
As the Domestic Abuse Bill looks to be enacted sometime in 2021,
its principles create new opportunities for partners to coordinate
our aims and resources across East & West Sussex, Brighton and
Hove, and alongside the Office of the Sussex Police & Crime
Commissioner.
This comes at a time where lockdown pressures have impacted
domestic life and the ability of refuge or mutual aid services to
provide one-to-one support. In
the period April - November 2020 there were 27 recorded emergency
A&E admissions across East & West Sussex linked to assaults
occurring at home, 50% more than the entire financial year
2019-20[i].
The Health Independent Domestic Violence Advisor contract went live
in October 2020 and is now a core element of the commissioned
service across East Sussex for the next five
years.
By establishing and coordinating new partnerships we aim to remove
many of the bureaucratic and structural barriers existing across
authority boundaries. This openness should encourage and
incentivise our partner agencies to unlock the resources needed for
professionals to create more robust and accessible short- and
long-term services for vulnerable people and their
families.
By forming a Pan-Sussex Local Partnership Board our partnership
aims to refine our working
practices, reporting its progress to the
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). This
sits within our broader goals to create more efficient and
accountable services which give more time and resources to
professionals to bring about sustained change across safe-spaces,
criminal justice and behaviour management. By doing this we will
bring together more partners across public and voluntary/community
services in the understanding that tackling domestic & sexual
violence remains a community responsibility.
Over this year we have been:
·
Developing a pan-Sussex Strategic Framework to build and monitor
our services and partnership approach, focusing on four key
areas:
1.
Prevention & early intervention
2.
Producing coordinated and easily accessible services
3.
Creating measures to challenge and influence the behaviour of
perpetrators
4.
Creating networks across health, justice and other community
agencies
·
Commissioning a CCG-funded Health Independent Domestic Violence
Advisor (HIDVA) service to assess and signpost potential victims to
specialist services following treatment in hospital settings, as
well as to train and support professionals identifying potential
abuse
Throughout 2021/22 we will be:
·
Conducting a comprehensive needs assessment and drafting a new
Safer Accommodation Strategy to grow more flexible, integrated
resources and spaces for people seeking refuge from
abuse
·
Recommissioning our domestic abuse and violence refuge services
across East Sussex from November 2021
·
Creating an Action Delivery Plan using ambitious and achievable
indicators in a co-ordinated community response to domestic and
sexual violence & abuse across Sussex to achieve the four main
goals in our Strategic Framework, and address inequalities in
accessing services
·
Working with the East Sussex Youth Cabinet to develop and analyse a
county-wide survey to understand young people’s views and
experiences of domestic violence that will inform the Safer
Community Partnerships’ strategies
·
Realigning
our Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) process to the
new Victim Hub to ensure the partnership response to high risk
victims is effective and efficient
·
Working
with partners across Sussex to improve how our systems identify and
support people experiencing multiple disadvantage such as domestic
abuse, who may not meet the criteria for any one statutory service
but still need trauma-informed care to ensure their needs are
met
·
Coordinating services and strategies with partners to specifically
address the safety of women and girls in public streets and on
beaches to reduce sexual harassment and assault
[1]Hospital
Episode Statistics (HES) data accessed via DAE, NHS Digital
Hospital activity up to the end of November
2020 (likely incomplete for admissions for the last week of
November). Due to the way HES data is submitted by Trusts,
processed by NHS Digital and made available to local Public Health
teams, the numbers are subject to change.
Drug & Alcohol-Related
Harm
Harm caused by drug- and alcohol-related crime and ill-health
remains ever-present across East Sussex and continues to be felt
most profoundly in our more deprived areas. Our partnerships’
focus is to break links between drug & alcohol misuse, serious
violent & organised crime like cuckooing, imprisonment and the
disproportionate harms these substances cause to families and local
communities.
As our services adjust to COVID-19 we strengthened our
communications and digital resources to offer remote support while
preserving COVID-secure face-to-face contact with vulnerable groups
like the street community. We will continue to grow our digital
platforms to improve mutual aid and treatment services as well as
publish regular newsletters to support our Partners in Recovery
meetings to provide essential up-to-date knowledge to
professionals.
We have also coordinated two major consultations relating to Drug
and Alcohol Harm in 2020,
“A conversation about drugs and
alcohol”
and
“Continuing the conversation; lets focus on
alcohol”.
These brought service users, providers and community groups
together to critically evaluate the projects commissioned through
the Drug and Alcohol Innovation Fund, giving context and direction
to an overarching Alcohol Harm Strategy.
Our partners continue to include feedback from users and partners
to shape and re-commission services and partnership projects, such
as:
·
Bringing together Change, Grow, Live (CGL) and GP surgeries to
support the Dependence Forming Medication (DFM) Project, supporting
patients who wish to reduce the use of prescribed medication like
opioids and benzodiazepines
·
The RADAR project, using peer guidance and creative arts activities
to support members of the street community in or seeking substance
misuse recovery
·
The provision of specialist recovery support for women delivered by
Oasis Women’s Recovery Service (OWRS) and for the Armed
Forces Community through the East Sussex Veterans Hub
(ESVH)
·
Working with
Adfam
to provide meaningful support life for families and carers of
people affected by drugs and alcohol and training for family
support professionals
·
Co-sponsoring harm reduction projects for vulnerable people in
temporary accommodation delivered by St Leonards-on-Sea-based
Seaview Project and Merrick House
Project ADDER
Project ADDER is a Home Office-led
initiative to support the Hastings community prevent the harm
caused by opiate and crack cocaine by adopting a public-health
approach. Its main outcomes are to reduce associated deaths,
decrease overall opiate and crack use and target criminal offending
related to its sale and distribution.
Using £5million from the
Government’s Shared Outcomes Fund between November 2020 and
March 2023 our partnerships are establishing prison in-reach
services, specialist nursing and outreach teams as well as building
on projects and partnerships already in East Sussex. This is to
ensure our services target the health and social aspects of drug
consumption as well as reducing related crime.
Project ADDER sets out three work
areas:
·
Improving Enforcement by coordinating police and public sources to
target drug dealers and reduce
supply
·
Providing Diversionary services for people in custody, in the
community and within prisons to minimise the risk of reoffending
and safeguard children & families through a Criminal Justice
Intervention Team
(CJIT)
·
Enhancing Treatment & Recovery services by fostering specialist
outreach teams and rehabilitation services to help engage people in
effective long-term treatment
Further information on Project ADDER
can be requested by emailing ProjectAdder@eastsussex.gov.uk.
Over 2020/21 we have been:
·
Critically reviewing Drug Related Deaths that have occurred in East
Sussex by bringing together partners and stakeholders to identify
key shortfalls and areas for improvement, with the aim of crafting
better early-intervention and risk-management strategies
·
Creating a 5-year Alcohol Harm Strategy ready for April 2021, using
feedback from consultations throughout 2020 to create strategies
helping people form healthier relationships with alcohol, protect
their families and communities from its potential harms and engage
in effective treatment & recovery
·
Coordinating statutory
and voluntary/community sector partners to deliver diversionary
programs for offenders with substance disorders such through
as
Checkpoint, an MoJ-supported
early-intervention initiative giving structured support to
challenge and divert offenders’ behaviour from the point of
charge
Our key actions over 2021/22 are:
·
Using further reviews of Drug Related Deaths as gatekeepers to
discussing themes like homelessness or physical & mental health
to reflect on good practice, areas for improvement and how to focus
resources on areas of work which can address the underlying causes
of drug related
deaths
·
Offering an expanded range of treatment services through our adult
Drug and Alcohol Treatment Service, in its second year of a new
contract, to significantly reduce the number of
re-referrals
·
Supporting
the
East Sussex Family Drug & Alcohol Court (FDAC)
through SWIFT as it runs a year-long trial using a specialist court
to support evidence-based treatments and care plans for families
addressing mental health and
domestic violence issues affecting substance-misusing
parents through a specialist, multi-disciplinary team,
supported by fortnightly reviews
·
Using diversionary interventions funded through Project ADDER to
divert those involved in some types of offending relating to opiate
and crack cocaine use away from the court system and into
specialist support
interventions
Preventing Violent
Extremism
East Sussex continues to be considered a low-risk area for violent
extremism, however our partnerships remain vigilant and
horizon-scan for the likely effects that personal circumstances and
wider political changes may have on vulnerable peoples’
likelihood of forming violent extremist views.
We review our early-intervention and education programs and track
emerging threats posed by extremists across the political spectrum
as outlined in the East Sussex annual Counter Terrorism Local
Profile (CTLP).
The Prevent strategy forms one arm of the UK Government’s
overall CONTEST counter-terrorism framework. East Sussex Channel
Panel provides local support by coordinating panels to risk-assess
vulnerable groups and individuals with support from Adult Social
Care/Children’s Services, police, health specialists and
other partners.
Once assessed, if a vulnerability is identified and an individual
consents to support, relevant professionals can then develop
tailored early-intervention activities as part of their support
plan - which can include specialist education, mental health
support and mentoring - to challenge extremist ideologies or
beliefs.
Over 2020/21 our partnerships have been:
·
Delivering
Relation-SHOPs programs in primary schools to encourage young
people to form positive relationships within their community by
sharing opinions respectfully and avoiding harmful or disrespectful
language
·
Coordinating
a development day for Channel practitioners alongside the National
College of Policing to share good practice and develop consistent
ways to give vulnerable people timely, appropriate
support
·
Promoting
the national Counter Terror Policing Network’s Act Early
campaign and new website launch, which was set up to encourage
family and friends to share concerns that a friend or loved one
could be vulnerable to radicalisation
Over 2021/22 we are:
·
Identifying
emerging local counter-terrorism risks in partnership and
coordinating activity to mitigate them through the East Sussex
Prevent Board
·
Incorporating
new national Channel guidance into our local structures to provide
appropriate support across the county
·
Working
in partnership with police to establish police-led panels (PLPs),
designed for people or groups not considered suitable for the
voluntary Channel programme but who still require intervention and
risk-management
Reducing
Reoffending
Around 20 people per month are released from prison into East
Sussex without specific accommodation to act as home. Many of our
released offenders are high-risk offenders with complex and
interconnected needs including mental and physical ill-health,
substance misuse disorders and connections to domestic
abuse.
A lack of sustainable accommodation is one of eight areas of need
criminal justice partners typically assess to be linked to
offending behaviour; finding accommodation and the services
required to keep people secure there is key to supporting a
person’s ability to successfully reintegrate back into
society.
Our partnerships’ continue to develop a better understanding
how providing sustainable accommodation for prison-leavers should
feed into a whole-systems approach which integrates ex-offenders
back into society. Much of this this work stem has grown from our
partnerships’ research undertaken alongside the
Sussex Criminal Justice Board (SCJB), and
our efforts to coordinate this across East Sussex’s local
districts and boroughs.
We work with the Rough Sleepers Initiative (RSI) to provide
outreach and specialist health and substance-misuse support for all
rough sleepers, many of whom have previously served custodial
sentences.
Trailblazers
Over 2020 Her Majesty's Prison and
Probation Service (HMPPS) Reducing Reoffending Directorate began
the process of identifying four local sites across England &
Wales capable of adopting a ‘whole-system approach’ to
reducing reoffending and test new ways of working with partner
agencies and stakeholders.
In February 2020 East Sussex
submitted an application for Trailblazer status to the HMPPS, which
it received in October 2020 for its strength of collaboration
between a wide range of partners (Rough Sleeper Initiative, local
Housing authorities, ESCC and the National Probation Service) to
improve outcomes for prison leavers.
Our Trailblazer builds on existing
partnerships which embrace a systems-wide approach to reducing
homelessness by devising new solutions to finding accommodation and
improving pathways to community services. The Trailblazer partners
are developing a move-on accommodation model of support for prison
leavers that compliments current temporary accommodation
arrangements.
With this Trailblazer status we also
have support from the HMPPS Reducing Reoffending Trailblazer Team,
which operates as a centralised national support infrastructure
with a single oversight manager, to help draw in resources and
support to unblock national issues which cannot be influenced
locally.
Over 2020-21 our work across East Sussex has included:
·
Using our research alongside the RSI to better understand the
specific shortages in accommodation for prison-leavers, explore
securing accommodation and designing new pathways to ensure
ex-offenders receive community
support
·
Incorporating specialists from substance misuse recovery and
criminal justice into the Rough Sleeper Initiative’s
multidisciplinary team to provide tailored support for
prison-leavers experiencing multiple complex
needs
·
Consulting alongside
Prison and District & Borough council Housing professionals to
begin the process of integrating Housing Options Officers into
Lewes prison’s in-reach services
·
Integrating our
Trailblazer whole-systems approach to reducing reoffending into the
East Sussex Housing Officers Group (ESHOG) and other partnerships
in Public Health and Housing
·
Continuing
multi-agency work to reduce the offending of people misusing drugs
or alcohol such as the STAR Criminal Justice Intervention Team
(CJIT) participating in Cuckooing meetings across the county,
holding IOM meetings in Hastings and Eastbourne and the work of
MoJ-supported
Checkpoint
Over 2021-22 we are
expanding our work by:
·
Creating new and improved pathways for prison & probation
Duty-to-Refer Notifications to offer timely access to community
services, as well as expand housing and other support where there
is no legal duty for local authorities to provide prevention of
relief from homelessness
·
Exploring more funding and third sector collaborative opportunities
to support the main objectives of our Trailblazer work
·
Embedding a specialist Prison Housing Options Officer into criminal
justice settings aiming reduce homelessness upon release, provide
timelier access to critical services and set up pathways for
longer-term community integration
·
Working alongside the RSI to better assess the complexity of our
prison-leavers’ needs in order to improve multi-disciplinary
strategies for supporting people during their transition back to
civilian life
·
Developing specific prison in-reach services to support those who
are affected by opiate and crack cocaine use through Project Adder
during and after prisoners’ releases
Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) &
Hate Crime
Anti-social behaviour covers a range of behaviours affecting
individuals and communities including excessive noise, verbal abuse
and intimidation, littering/fly-tipping, vandalism and public
drinking.
ASB tends not to be caused by any specific age-group, gender or
community and can originate from homes, businesses or in public
spaces. Because ASB can come from such a variety of sources and
cause different levels and types of harm, a bank of interventions
need to be adopted with effective legislation and local powers
needed to intervene early and reduce the risk of it escalating to
more harmful types of crime or disorder.
Lockdowns have also disrupted the ability of local partnerships and
the schemes they support to offer diversion and education
activities in-person, however financial, planning and coordination
support has continued and grown.
ASB
incidents have risen sharply over 2020/21, particularly during the
lockdowns of March/April 2020.
Sussex Police, local authorities and social landlords have seen
escalating issues between neighbours being reported as nuisance and
local environmental issues grow and risk leading to violence,
damage or disorder.
Fly-tipping and littering in East Sussex is investigated by
district and borough councils, with over 3,000 cases reported every
year since 2017. In East Sussex it tends to occur in mostly rural
areas in isolated driveways, accessways and farm margins; in urban
areas, tips of white goods can be found in alleys and
under-monitored ‘un-owned’ grounds.
Public Space Protection Orders (PSPOs) can be issued to define
areas where new powers can operate to prohibit activities like
street-drinking; some have been in place since 2017, such as to
deal with related nuisance behaviour in Hastings, street-drinking
in Eastbourne and aggressive begging in Rother. Links to local
PSPOs in place across East Sussex can be found here for
Rother, Wealden,
Eastbourne & Lewes and Hastings.
Working with Street
Communities, Designing-out ASB & Using Local Powers,
Bexhill-on-Sea
Following repeated reports of ASB from among
the street community by residents and businesses in
Bexhill-on-Sea - including aggressive begging and verbal
abuse, public drinking & drug-dealing and urinating in public
alleyways near shops – Rother District Council & the
Rother Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT) joined with local
residents to find sustainable ways to address the local
community’s well-being and safety. All parties wanted to
reduce the effects to residents’ quality of life and mental
health while safeguarding members of the street community against
the risk of harm from exploitation, drug/alcohol misuse or any
confrontations escalating to violence.
Alongside local councillors, the NPT and
Rother District Council improved their referral mechanisms for
local housing support and substance misuse services as well as
providing a measured enforcement system for people repeatedly
causing issues by issuing Community Protection Notices and warnings
to repeat offenders. Alongside a local PSPO, these measures were
designed to include positive interventions to access services and
housing as well as restrictions upon repeat offenders to discourage
ongoing anti-social behaviour. Following a Fire Risk Assessment,
the alleyway alongside a local shop had a full-width gate
installed, with 50% of the cost provided by the Rother Joint Action
Group (JAG).
Since these measures we in place, local
complaints have fallen sharply, and a residents’ survey found
quality of life has improved significantly. Across East Sussex,
using a combination of these measures is now considered a key part
of improving response times to escalating ASB issues which meet
local needs, deliver against the principles of the Office of the
Police & Crime Commissioner (OPCC) and reduces the overall
threat and risk of future issues, as well as reducing harm to those
already affected.
Increased reporting of Hate Crime is also a priority area across
East Sussex’s district and borough local CSPs and for Sussex
Police. In the year to September 2020,
Hate Crimes reported in East Sussex rose by 31% from 681 to 841
reports, with particular increases in hate relating to race (522),
sexual orientation (139) and disability (108). Unlike ASB, reported
incidents peaked in July 2020 when the UK’s first lockdown
measures were relaxed and public spaces and businesses opened
up.
Our partnership continues to focus on working with children and
young people to challenge hate-related behaviour in schools and
their local community. During lockdowns Youth Prevention Officers
and partners across East Sussex delivered awareness and
de-escalation sessions to schools/colleges remotely.
In East Sussex there are only rare reports of individuals ever
being offenders or victims repeatedly; where Hate Crimes are
reported to Sussex Police risk assessments are completed with all
victims to identify hotspots and mitigate against further harm. This is supported by Victim Support
services offering intensive Hate Crime support services to
all Hate Crime victims, regardless of perceived risk.
Hate & Anti-Social Behaviour Risk Assessment Conferences
(HASBRACs) - multi-agency forums combining Police, local
authorities, Landlords, Adults & Children’s Services,
mediation services and other agencies - identify medium- and
higher-risk victims and coordinate policing, housing and community
sector support.
Community
mediation
This highlights a dispute discussed and
resolved by mediation services in 2020 in Hastings for a neighbour
dispute.
Mrs A is often alone at home recovering from
one of multiple health conditions. The B family moved next door and
began completing DIY in their garden, upsetting Mrs A with loud
noise and how she thought it might impact her view of her own
garden. This culminated in Mrs A approaching the B family in their
garden, shouting and swearing over the garden fence, in front of
their children.
Mrs B felt threatened and called the police,
who attended, discussed the issue and suggested a referral to
the Hastings and Rother
Mediation Service. Two specially trained mediators visited both
families to discuss how mediation works and drew up a mediation
plan. This began with initial telephone calls, establishing a good
rapport and encouraging both families to begin face-to-face
meetings.
In COVID-safe conditions the A & B families
were able to express their concerns with the help of a trained
mediator. Mr A apologised for her confrontational behaviour, while
Mr Batchelor apologised for not checking with neighbours before
completing noisy DIY. In one meeting they shared plans for the
remaining garden work to reassure Mrs Anderson her view would be
unaffected.
After their last meeting, Mrs A told the
service she felt a weight had been lifted off her shoulders, while
Mr B said that this mediation service provided a safe space to talk
through all the issues and find a manageable way forward.
Over 2020/21 our partnerships
have:
·
Continued
to enforce ASB-related PSPOs, including coordinating specialist
support to members of the street community and prosecuting those
repeatedly breaking restrictions
·
Co-ordinated
multi-agency HASBRACs alongside specialist victim support services
and voluntary sector expertise to triage, manage and resolve
medium- or high-risk cases of ASB, including case
mediation
·
Installed
environmental improvements and monitoring to design-out and deter
against antisocial behaviour through the Safer Streets Fund in
Eastbourne and Hastings, including CCTV, alleygating and overgrown
vegetation removal
·
Created
publicity campaigns to promote the use of ‘community
triggers’, referral forms for residents concerned about
longstanding, unresolved ASB
·
Provided
FireWise advice to children and young people with a fascination for
fire through the Fire & Rescue Service, working to address
associated risk factors for fire-starting as a form of escalating
ASB
·
Supporting
youth diversionary activities such as maintaining connections to
Youth Radio and developing recreation facilities across the
county
·
Coordinating and funding specialist mediation services to victims
of anti-social behaviour across East Sussex, through Hastings & Rother
Mediation Service & Mediation
Plus
Over
2021-2022 our partnerships will add to this work by:
·
Supporting
the HASBRACs and sharing their good practice across our partners in
how to risk-assess and review ASB cases across the county, to
critically examine how ASB or Hate incidents can be resolved in
partnership
·
Coordinating further consultations with residents, town planners
and Sussex Police support to implement environmental methods to
deter ASB and Hate Crime and minimise their impact on victims and
their communities
·
Giving
further training to professionals working with victims of ASB
including advocacy training to tackle under-reporting and
establishing better information-sharing practices through the
Empowering-Communities Inclusion
& Neighbourhood management (E-CINS) system and other
reporting
·
Coordinating further support for young people to reduce the impact
of ASB & Hate Crime on vulnerable communities by supporting
youth diversionary schemes across the county, alongside
re-establishing those unable to run in-person services in
2020/21
Road Safety
Reducing road casualties and tackling anti-social driving are a key
priority across East Sussex. Its high concentration of
single-carriageway and rural roads significantly increase the risk
of being killed or seriously injured (KSI). Speeding, aggressive
driving/riding and lacking road awareness are key contributory
factors that contribute to fear for drivers/riders and pedestrian
alike.
Other road-related issues including excess noise and inconsiderate
parking add to the frustrations of local people and local
communities, who
consistently cite the need to promote road safety as a key concern
in residents’ surveys.
People killed or seriously injured (KSI) on East Sussex Roads, 2017
– 2020
|
Calendar
Year
|
Killed
|
Seriously
Injured
|
Totals
|
|
2017
|
26
|
345
|
371
|
|
2018
|
21
|
334
|
355
|
|
2019
|
14
|
394
|
408
|
|
2020
|
17
|
276
|
293
|
Local and national action remains focussed around the principles of
enforcement, engineering and education, supported by effective
engagement between agencies, residents and
communities.
The pan-Sussex partnership tasked with improving road safety is the
Sussex Safer Roads Partnership (SSRP), joining teams from Brighton
& Hove City Council, East & West Sussex County Councils and
Fire & Rescue Services, Sussex Police and Highways England. It
develops strategies and campaigns to raise awareness of road safety
law and deliver preventative measures to encourage safe road
use.
Safety cameras, high visibility mobile enforcement operations and
the Community Speedwatch initiative are some of SSRP’s tools
to promote behavioural change on the roads. Sussex Police operate
marked and unmarked vehicles to remain alert for motorists who are
speeding, driving anti-socially or distracted as well as ensure all
roads users remain safe by wearing seatbelts and maintaining
vehicle standards.
In East Sussex, ESCC and Highways England are responsible for
adopting engineering solutions to road safety concerns, including
investigating serious traffic incidents to determine if road or
sign engineering can reduce the risk of further harm. ESCC continue
to provide road safety education in school and colleges to ensure
young people understand how to easily and quickly reduce the risk
that their action or inaction on the road can cause harm to others
and themselves.
There are Road Safety Action Groups for the Eastbourne, Lewes and
Wealden areas and the Hastings & Rother area which report to
their own community safety partnerships; their work supports the
SSRP and local road safety priorities. These include
Community Speedwatch, community campaigns and
Safe Drive Stay Alive, and ESFRS’s multi-agency
presentations for young people aged 16 and 17 to reduce their risk
of death and injury on the road through better
decision-making.
Over 2020/21 our main achievements have come through:
·
Running
educational campaigns tailored to strategic priorities within the
SSRP: motorcyclists, new drivers, pedestrians and occupational
drivers, as well as specialist and local programs like Deer
Aware
·
Refining
local methods to reliably and safely use fixed and mobile roadside
speed cameras to deter speeding and support enforcement
strategies
·
Promoting
the growth of new and existing Community Speed Watch groups,
including giving training, equipment and logistical support to
volunteers
·
Monitoring
the progress of
Operation Crackdown, allowing residents to report
anti-social road use and abandoned vehicles online
Over 2021 and 2022, alongside continuing the programs run this
year, we are:
·
Analysing
the outcomes of ESCC’s Behaviour Change projects to help
draft future road safety initiatives, ensuring their impacts are
targeted and long-term
·
Expanding
the Strategic Casualty Reduction approach to ESCC’s road
safety engineering work, using additional funding to address the
level of casualties experienced along our rural A and B
roads
·
Focusing awareness campaigns on issues highlighted by the National
Roads Policing Plan, such as speed; drink/drugs driving; mobile
phone use, as well as campaigns that promote the safety of
vulnerable road users.
·
Coordinating with partners like Sussex Police and the South East
Coast Ambulance service (SECAmb) to rollout and update the virtual
Safe Drive Stay Alive program for schools, colleges and
home-educated young people
·
Examining how we can effectively engage local communities to help
assess the impact that anti-social driving has on pedestrians and
vulnerable road users, identify location of concern and trial new
interventions
·
Continuing
engagement with road users to change the behaviours that put
themselves and others at risk and to reduce levels of anti-social
driving and riding
|
The
number of reports of fraud by East Sussex residents to Operation
Signature
|
|
The
number of reports of Doorstep Crime in East Sussex to East Sussex
Trading Standards
|
|
The
number of young people in East Sussex considered to be at high risk
to child exploitation and discussed at the Multi-Agency Child
Exploitation (MACE)
|
|
The
number of episodes of children who are reported missing in East
Sussex
|
|
The
number of community safety training and awareness raising sessions
delivered to organisations within the county, including schools,
staff, partners and the wider community
|
|
The
number of potential victims of modern slavery and human trafficking
to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) investigated by Sussex
Police, regardless of source
|
|
The
number of reported incidents of Serious Violent Crime in East
Sussex
|
|
The
number of reported incidents of Serious Knife Crime in East
Sussex
|
|
The
number of referrals accepted onto the REBOOT scheme
|
|
The
number of Domestic Abuse Incidents and Crimes recorded in East
Sussex
|
|
The
total number of cases discussed at the MARAC in East
Sussex
|
|
The
% of people affected by rape, sexual violence and abuse have
improved coping strategies upon leaving the service
|
|
The
% of people affected by domestic violence and abuse who have
improved safety/support measures in place upon leaving the
service
|
|
The
number of Adults in treatment for Substance Misuse in East Sussex
(rolling 12 months)
|
|
The
number of Young People accessing the East Sussex Under 19s
Substance Misuse Service
|
|
The
% of people accessing Mutual Aid recovery services who feel they
can manage more independently as a result of using the
service
|
|
The
% of all receiving drug & alcohol treatment, who successfully
completed treatment and did not re-present within 6
months
|
|
The
% of people accessing mutual aid recovery services who feel more
confident as a result of using the service
|
|
The
number of drugs related deaths recorded in East Sussex
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