Coventry Community Safety Partnership

Members of the Community Safety Partnership includes:

Coventry City Council is the local authority serving the Coventry area.
Website: http://www.coventry.gov.uk

The West Midlands Police Authority is an independent body with responsibility to make sure that the West Midlands has the best possible police service.
Website: http://www.west-midlands.police.uk/authority/

West Midlands Fire Service is the fire service covering Coventry.
Website: http://www.wmfs.net

Coventry Primary Care Trust is the organisation responsible for making sure that healthcare services are available to the people of Coventry.
Website: http://www.coventrypct.nhs.uk

West Midlands Police is the force operating in Coventry.
Website: http://www.west-midlands.police.uk

Coventry Youth Offending Service is a multi-agency organisation that aims to reduce offending by children and young people aged 10-17 and to have a preventive role in reducing the risks of offending by all young people.
Website: http://www.coventry-yos.org.uk

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust is responsible for managing Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry & Warwickshire Hospital and the Hospital of St.Cross in Rugby.
Website: http://www.uhcw.nhs.uk

The Swanswell Trust is a registered charity and company limited by guarantee providing addiction treatment services in Coventry. The trust manages Community Alcohol Services in Coventry and also runs the Coventry Discovery Project (a young people's substance misuse service) in partnership with the Coventry Community Drug Team.
Website: http://www.swanswelltrust.org

The National Probation Service works with people who have committed different types of offences such as burglary, violence, car crime and sex offences and provides probation supervision, offender behaviour programmes and specialist support services which can stop people committing further offences.
Website: http://www.probation.homeoffice.gov.uk

Coventry Consortium of RSLs represents 19 different Registered Social Landlords which have properties in Coventry. The smallest have a handful of properties in the city, while Whitefriars is responsible for around 20,000 homes which made up the former council-owned housing stock.
Websites: http://www.whitefriarshousing.co.ukwww.orbit.org.ukwww.focus.co.ukwww.touchstone.org.uk

Connexions gives young people information, advice, guidance and practical help to prepare for adult and working life and also offers counselling help for young people with personal difficulties and those with special needs or circumstances.
Website: http://www.connexions-covandwarks.org.uk

Businesses are represented by the Coventry and Warwickshire Chamber.
Website: http://www.cw-chamber.co.uk

The Magistrates Court Service is a crucial part of the criminal justice system where court hearings are heard. More serious cases are referred to the Crown Court.

The Coventry Partnership

The Community Safety Partnership is also the 'Community Safety Theme Group' which reports to the Coventry Partnership, the LSP (or Local Strategy Partnership) serving the local area.

The Coventry Partnership provides a framework for agencies and communities across the city top get together and co-ordinate work and ideas to meet the economic, social and environmental needs of the city and the health and wellbeing of its people.

The Coventry Partnership has eight separate theme groups, which cover issues surrounding housing, transport, health, equalities and communities, jobs and the economy, learning and training and the environment.

More information about the work of the Coventry Partnership can be found at http://www.coventrypartnership.com.

Contact

Community Safety Team
Coventry City Council
Room 214 Broadgate House
Broadgate
Coventry CV1 1FS

Tel: 024 7683 2131
Fax: 024 7683 2978