Birmingham Community Crime Reduction Strategic Group
Representative Role
Role description and requirements
Function
BVSC will work with the recruited representatives to establish a sustainable crosssector criminal partnershipthat
- Will identify barriers and solutions to the development of cross sector Criminal Justice partnerships.
- Will maximise Birmingham’s potential to engage in future Criminal justice opportunities
Objectives:
- To provide a consultative forum that can effectively provide expertise on the strategic development of cross sector criminal justice services.
- To evaluate collaborative delivery models to explore potential for wider implementation across services.
- To evaluate and evidence good practice of cross sector partnership development within the Birmingham community crime reduction partnership.
- To identify a set of priorities to implemented by the partnership.
- To explore potential criminal justice investment opportunities to build on existing good practice
- To support the sustainability of the Birmingham Community Crime Reduction Partnership.
- To explore criminal justice investment opportunities.
Key requirement:
If applying for a representative seat on the BCCR strategic group you will need to be at manager/senior manager /director level and your skills and experiences /currant role must be in one of the following representative areas
1. Service user
2. Public or private prison service
3. Probation service
4.Criminal justice support services – Accommodation, ETE, Finance, Health .Children & families , Attitude & Behaviours, Substance misuse, Domestic violence ,Women involved in prostitution
5. Police
Tasks and responsibilities of representatives
- Make a commitment to serve for a minimum of one year and to attend all meetings of the group on time, or give apologies in advance if you are unable to attend.
- To attend BCCRP strategic group meetings –Bi monthly and BCCRP meetings when required
- Prepare appropriately for meetings –reading, minutes, responding to requests for information and completing any actions as agreed by the partners.
- To act as a positive ambassador for BCCRP strategic partnership and to operate in a professional manner at all meetings.
- Actively engage and reflect/represent the interests of the particular area that you are representing and not that of your individual organisation.
- Be responsible for giving feedback from meetings to the BCCRP network and partners.
- To declare any potential conflict of interests prior to meetings.
- To work with the other BCCRP Strategic reps to achieve the objectives as set out in the TOR
KeyCompetencies
- Knowledge and experience of the Voluntary and Community Sector
- Knowledge and experience of Birmingham’s criminal Justice sector
- Experience of partnership working.
- Excellent communication skills including experience of operating and influencing strategic networks in multi agency settings
- Commitment to equal opportunities
- Ability to advocate, challenge and lobby on behalf of the Partnership
- Ability to understand and inform policy and strategic development.
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