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Think Local
Crime is a local issue. The working context for trusts is, and
always will be, local.
Probation trusts are Responsible Authority partners with the
police and local authorities to deliver crime reduction strategies.
The Policing and Crime Bill will formally reinforce arrangements
requiring probation to engage with local authorities in the
production and implementation of Local Area Agreements.
We published a Local Partnership Strategy to help trusts to
engage with this local agenda in order to maximize their unique
contribution to local crime reduction at a strategic and
operational level. We are working closely with the Local Government
Association to drive forward this "localism" agenda.
We published our report Power of Partnership, which showcases
various examples of best probation partnership practice, at a study
day in January 2011 at which speakers from HM Treasury, the
Ministry of Justice and some Total Place pilots gave presentations.
The PowerPoint presentations from this day form our
Think
Local Update 4 which can be downloaded as a zipped file.
We published a Discussion Paper entitled Probation Trusts in
Partnerships: The New Local Performance Context last year to inform
and stimulate debate about how the localism agenda can be
synthesised with the national system for monitoring and evaluating
probation performance. The paper received unanimous support and its
key points were accepted by the Ministry of Justice.
This was followed by three Think Local updates: Update 1 reports
on the feedback received to the initial paper; Update 2 contains
scrutiny guidance for trust boards produced in collaboration with
the Centre for Public
Scrutiny; and
Think
Local Update 3 is formed by the
PowerPoint presentations given at the launch of our Local
Partnership Strategy.
All these documents can be downloaded in pdf from the list on the
right.