Data and evidence is at the heart of what we do and underpins all of our strategies and the services we commission. Each year we produce a series of needs assessments and evidence profiles which help us to understand who and where is most at risk of crime and anti-social behaviour and what is most effective at tackling these issues.
This page includes analysis undertaken by the Community Safety Intelligence Team to support the work undertaken by Safer Cornwall and partners. If you would like further information please get in touch with the team via [email protected]
To make the best use of resources, our Partnership Plan focuses on the issues that present the greatest risk to the safety of individuals, their families and the wider community and these are identified through the Strategic Assessment. The strategic assessment combines data analysis with insight, expertise and knowledge from local subject experts and the findings of relevant national research.
The strategic assessment is presented as an overview and a set of thematic assessments, covering the following topics:
Every year we undertake a review of all the information and update our Strategic Assessment to keep it up-to-date, we publish a summary in the Partnership Plan.
Town profiles have been developed for each of the ten towns in the Safer Towns Programme. The profiles aim to provide an understanding of trends in crime and anti-social behaviour alongside the key characteristics of each town and the views of local residents. These profiles were produced to inform the place-based action plans for each town and will be updated on an annual basis.
The Safer Town partnerships take an evidence-based approach with activity that responds to:
• Safer Town Profiles (annual)
• Cornwall Council Residents Survey (annual)
• Have Your Say Survey and events (annual)
• Adverse trends in crime and anti-social behaviour and emerging issues as they are identified.
Click on a town below for more information.
The new Serious Violence Duty sets out requirements for local areas to have a dedicated focus and plan for tackling serious violence. The following needs assessment has been produced to understand this issue, to find out what we are doing to address serious violence in Cornwall please see the Safer Cornwall Serious Violence Strategic Framework.
Cornwall Council and Cornwall’s Community Safety Partnership, Safer Cornwall, are responsible for reducing the harm related to drugs and alcohol locally. As such it is important to review local needs and evidence for drug and alcohol provision and assess the impacts upon individuals, families and local communities. This information is used to inform the commissioning of a range of services and system improvements that seek to make a positive impact. Find out what we are doing locally to support the Government drug strategy “From harm to hope” follow this LINK
This is the annual Drug Related Deaths report for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, covering the calendar year 2024. It follows the guidance and requirements by the Department of Health and the Home Office for all Areas to have in place a system of recording and conducting confidential inquiries into drug related deaths within their specific areas.
This needs assessment has been developed to help us understand how alcohol is impacting on the population of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly and assess the effectiveness of our current response to reducing alcohol harms.
The findings will provide the evidence base for our new alcohol strategy which we will develop with partners.
This needs assessment refresh has been developed alongside the Community Drug Partnership. The findings of this Needs Assessment, along with the Adult Drug Treatment and Alcohol Needs Assessment will provide the evidence base for the local Commissioning Strategy and will ensure that the redesign of drug treatment provision will be evidence led.
The needs assessment aims to provide a shared understanding of local need in relation to domestic abuse and sexual violence, to inform the development of local services and enable everyone affected by domestic abuse and sexual violence to have their needs met more effectively. It provides answers to the following questions:
These needs assessments support our understanding of DASV in Cornwall and underpin the DASV Strategy and Safe Accommodation strategy which can be found here.
Each year as part of the development of our new Partnership Plan, Safer Cornwall invites local people to “Have Your Say” about the community safety issues that matter on a day-to-day basis in the local area and what could be done to improve things. The survey is available on our website between July and August and we also hold a series of face-to-face events across Cornwall to gather peoples’ views.
Since 2012, analysts representing Devon and Cornwall Community Safety Partnerships and the police have worked together to build a shared evidence base, in the form of the Peninsula Strategic Assessment (PSA) and the suite of Organised Crime Local Profiles (OCLPs) that support the local delivery of the Government’s Serious and Organised Crime Strategy.
The PSA identifies and describes the main threats and risks to community safety across Devon and Cornwall, bringing together the key messages from the strategic assessments undertaken in each of the CSP areas. It is used to support Peninsula collaboration and in understanding crime and disorder issues across Devon and Cornwall.
