Hampshire
Hampshire County Council has a duty to protect the health and safety of residents. This means planning, preparing and practising our response.
It means working to reduce the violence some people experience in their homes and communities and cooperating with the Criminal Justice System. To achieve this, we will focus on actions to protect the population from health harms and the impacts of violence.
Hampshire has a population of just over 1.8 million residents. Aside from Hampshire County Council, The County contains 11 second tier Local Government districts. Excluding Southampton and Portsmouth Unitary Authorities, Hampshire has a city as well as many towns and villages. The County has large rural areas which comprise of agricultural land, woodland and national parks which attract high levels of tourism. However, this is contrasted by areas of significant deprivation in both urban and rural communities.
The VRU currently funds the following projects in Hampshire:
RESET programme: This is a community-based intervention for young people aged 18 to 25. The service is voluntary and provides support to those who have offended. It aims to help young people move away from offending behaviour by offering guidance, mentoring, and access to employment, education, and training opportunities, enabling them to make positive and sustainable life choices. Available across Hampshire.
“Get Ready for Construction” programme: This programme is aimed at justice involved children aged 16 to 18 who are identified as being high risk of serious violence and NEET. Individuals are invited to attend a week long course to get relevant qualifications and learn employability skills. They are then mentored for 3 months and supported to achieve the Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) card and find pathways into employment. This service has been run in Havant.
Pol-ED: This programme allows schools to deliver a series of pre-planned lessons to pupils, enables Police Forces to engage with schools through lessons and assemblies, and enables local authorities and criminal justice partners to facilitate similar pre-planned lessons in their youth settings. Lessons are mapped out against the PSHE curriculum and subjects not covered in other PSHE schemes, created by experts. Available across Hampshire.
Young Futures Prevention Panels (YFPPs): These are multi-agency panels designed to identify, assess and refer into effective support young people who may be vulnerable to being drawn into crime. Individuals are identified by using data, where they are referred to a panel, services then have to come to an agreement as to how they can support that individual. A YFPP has been implemented in Basingstoke.
Community Safety Partnerships
Below is an overview of Community Safety Partnerships that work within each District to reduce violence, anti-social behaviour or criminality. This is largely achieved using partnership work with statutory bodies as well as important intervention activities from other organisations and charities.
The Basingstoke & Deane Community Safety Team directly contributes to helping local communities feel safer and helping to reduce levels of antisocial behaviour to improve residents’ quality of life. In North Hampshire, one strategic Community Safety Partner has been established to cover Basingstoke and Deane, Hart and Rushmoor with the aim of creating safer communities, reducing crime, and reducing the fear of crime in the area.
Current priorities:
- Improving feelings of safety and health outcomes within the CSP area
- Serious Violence
- Domestic Abuse
- Anti-Social Behaviour
- Town Centre and business crime and antisocial behaviour
Website:
Community Safety Team (basingstoke.gov.uk)
Document Links:
Basingstoke and Deane Strategic Assessment 2024/25
Community Safety Partnership Plan 2024/25
Contact information:
Community safety covers activities designed to reduce crime, disorder, anti-social behaviour, domestic abuse and behaviour that is harmful to the environment.
Working together to prevent and reduce crime and anti-social behaviour. The Community Safety Partnership is comprised of a number of statutory and voluntary agencies, working together to prevent and reduce crime and anti-social behaviour, from which it decides its strategic priorities. These priorities are:
- Tackling violence amongst young people
- Reducing Anti-social behaviour focusing on hotspot areas
- Young people at risk of exploitation
Website
Community Safety | Eastleigh Borough Council
Document links
Contact information
Email: commsafe@eastleigh.gov.uk
Working in partnership for a safer Fareham, current priorities are:
- Prevention and early intervention
- Protecting people from harm
Website
Fareham Community Safety Partnership
Contact information
communitysafety@fareham.gov.uk
01329 824496
Gosport Community Safety Partnership is a partnership comprising of a number of agencies, all working together towards making Gosport a safe place to live and work.
Current Priorities:
- Community Crime Prevention and Public Safety
- Community Wellbeing and Cohesion
- ASB
Website
Safergosport – Gosport Community Safety Partnership
Document links
Contact information
communitysafety@gosport.gov.uk
02392 545241
Hart Community Safety is part of the Safer North Hampshire Community Safety Partnership.
As well as focusing on issues in Hart, we work with Rushmoor Borough Council and Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council on cross-border issues.
For more information, visit the Safer North Hampshire website.
Current priorities:
- Improving feelings of safety and health outcomes within the CSP area
- Serious Violence
- Domestic Abuse
- Anti-Social Behaviour
- Town Centre and business crime and antisocial behaviour
Document links
Safer North Hampshire Hart District Strategic Assessment 2024/25
Website
Community Safety team | Hart District Council
Contact information
The Safer Havant Partnership is a multi-agency group working together to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour in Havant Borough.
Website
SaferHavant | Working together to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour in the borough
Contact Information
neighbourhood.quality@havant.gov.uk
023 9244 6019
The Safer New Forest is a partnership that consists of partner agencies such as New Forest District Council, Hampshire Constabulary, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue, Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Probation. Together we work towards reducing crime and anti-social behaviour and to make the New Forest a safer place to live, work and visit.
Document links
Website
Contact information
023 8028 5438
Rushmoor Community Safety Partnership is part of the Safer North Hampshire Community Safety Partnership. We work alongside Basingstoke and Deane, and Rushmoor as part of this to tackle cross-border issues.
Current priorities:
- Improving feelings of safety and health outcomes within the CSP area
- Serious Violence
- Domestic Abuse
- Anti-Social Behaviour
- Town Centre and business crime and antisocial behaviour
Document links
Safer North Hampshire Strategic Assessment
Website
Community safety - Rushmoor Borough Council
Contact information
The Test Valley Community Safety Partnership (CSP) now forms part of the 'Test Valley Partnership'. It enables organisations working locally to come together to respond to the needs within our communities in a more co-ordinated and organised way. Through sharing skills and combining resources where appropriate, partners focus on addressing the most important things in Test Valley which will continue to improve the quality of life for our communities.
Contact Information
Community&Leisure@testvalley.gov.uk
01264 368000
Winchester Community Safety Partnership (CSP) aims to reduce some of the main causal factors that increase risks related to crime & disorder. We will strengthen our existing arrangements and develop opportunities for greater collaboration, support local crime reduction initiatives and take a proactive stance against those who pose a threat to the feelings of safety and sense of community in our rural and urban areas across the district.
Current priorities:
- Tackle Serious Violence in all its forms to reduce the significant impact it can have on those affected
- Put in place targeted intervention and early diversion for young males, in order to mitigate their risks in relation to serious violence offences, as victims and/or perpetrators.
- Undertake targeted operations that aim to reduce the incidence of drug and alcohol related offending.
- Put in place intervention and support for those most at risk of committing serious offences and/or becoming
victims of crime. - Raise awareness of Domestic Abuse and Violence referral pathways in order to increase support for those
experiencing self-harm ideation, psychological and emotional abuse. - Address the emerging trend linked to tech facilitated abuse.
- Explore the data disparity between the rural/urban split in respect of access to services and ASB reporting.
- Focus on business crime and the related incidence of ASB.
- Concentrate the partnership’s efforts on tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) in all its forms.
- Target those who perpetrate against Women and Girls in public place around the night-time economy.
- Implement targeted operations that increase feelings of safety, raise awareness of partnership priorities, reduce ASB and improve public confidence.
Website
Community Safety and Neighbourhood Services - Winchester City Council
Document links
Winchetser CSP Partnership Plan 2025/26
Contact information