Safer Stronger consortium and the LCJB are pulling together a series of workshops during March 2018 to develop an agreement which sets out the principles which underlie the relationship for collaborative working between the criminal justice agencies and the VCSE.

The LCJB's aspiration is that both sectors can effectively deliver more, by working together and developing a greater understanding of each other, into a new decade. At this time of great change, it is vital that all the agencies work together to meet new challenges. We aim to create a living document which will be regularly reviewed and amended as the relationship between the sectors evolves.

The workshops will help develop a framework that is designed to:

• Improve relationships with better partnership working between VCSE and Criminal Justice agencies.

• Representation - selection, attendance, chairing arrangement, payment, channels for feedback and conflict of interest

• Principles that govern information sharing

• Co-production and co design to inform commissioning and policy development

• Funding arrangements clear and fair to all

• Promote inclusion and equality

• Encourage clear communication

• Help focus on better outcomes for individuals and communities

• offer support and assistance if things go wrong between the sectors; mediation and restoration

  This event is aimed at VCSE representatives and Criminal Justice representatives.

This event will be held at Police HQ, Middlemoor on the 28th March from 10:30 - 13:30

There are two further events:

14th March 2018 Bodmin Police station, Bodmin 10:30 - 13:30

21st March 2018 Charles Cross, Plymouth 10:30 - 13:30