DECISION

1.    Approve the women’s safety action plan at Appendix 1 to the report, subject to the following additions to the recommendations as underlined below:

Recommendation 1

The council and its strategic partners, including the Metropolitan Police, Faith Communities and the VCS to collaborate to improve the awareness of women of the programmes and help available directly that support women’s safety on the streets.

Recommendation 2

The Council to review current funding arrangements and increase the capacity to support women’s groups that offer domestic abuse services to the community. This to tie into a service-wide review of what is on offer to women of all communities.

Recommendation 4

The Council’s Children and Education Service, in particular Young Tower Hamlets to design support for increasing capacity at schools on raising awareness of domestic abuse and support available.

Recommendation 5

The Council and Residential Social Landlord (RSL) partners should actively strengthen their partnership workings to focus on tackling women safety issues  on RSL estates which will build on ongoing RSL work begun with the Ask the Ombudsman event.

Recommendation 6

The Police/THEOs to actively target and focus their recruitment and retention strategy to reflect recruiting representative women from the community in Tower Hamlets. This to be done in cooperation with faith communities and the Council.

Action by

CORPORATE DIRECTOR COMMUNITIES (S. BAXTER)

Head of Community Safety (S. Smith)