The Safer Bodmin partnership is working collaboratively in the local community.

Safer Bodmin facilitates and supports a co-ordinated multi-agency approach to community safety issues to improve feelings of safety and public reassurance, reduce the risk of harm to the community and protect vulnerable groups.  Safer Bodmin involves community members in the work of the partnership and encourages social inclusion and community participation through being part of the problem solving process and having a sense of pride in Bodmin.

Based on the evidence presented in the Bodmin Town Profile and feedback from the Residents Survey,

Our Priorities

• Drug related harm and recovery including dangerous drug networks/county lines/cuckooing
• Serious violence prevention and improve feelings of safety
• Domestic abuse and reducing violence against women and girls
• Youth engagement and reducing youth anti-social behaviour
• Targeted activity in the most deprived geographical areas; Kinsman Estate, Town Centre and Berryfields
• Community engagement and building community resilience and cohesion

What we have achieved so far

• Safer Bodmin has worked with partners to set up a safe space café for young people in Bodmin. The café is attended by around 50 young people each week and helps to sign post young people to support services.
• Safer Bodmin is working closely to address anti-social behaviour (ASB) issues and has been conducting multi-agency patrols of certain areas alongside our monthly ASB target group meetings.
• Young People Cornwall continue to provide assertive outreach with young people in the town.
• We have strongly supported Bodmin Town Council and the live monitored CCTV system which is proving vital to public safety and supporting criminal investigations.  We are continuing to work with the Town Council and police to ensure the effectiveness of the CCTV resource.
• We have held several multi-agency environmental visual audits in specific parts of Bodmin and have more of these planned.
• We also continue to promote key messages about reporting via the official reporting routes not social media.
• Safer Bodmin are continuing to support joint outreach with We Are With You (WAWY) which has been conducted in target areas throughout the year to engage with vulnerable individuals and the public.  The partnership has promoted the offer of specialist needle exchange services and advice/guidance on safe disposal at the WAWY office base and in their outreach capacity whilst supporting local businesses with the safe disposal of reported drug paraphernalia on their sites. 

Safer Bodmin has been working with young people in Bodmin to create a safe space cafe where young people can meet and access support. We have also funded a series of workshops with young people using graffiti skills to create artwork.

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