To improve the council’s engagement with all Southwark’s communities, including those hardest to reach.
To champion volunteering throughout Southwark. To promote equality and diversity and be a champion for Southwark’s varied and diverse communities.
To deliver a safer Southwark through oversight of council initiatives and services concerned with community safety, tackling anti-social behaviour, enforcement policy, emergency planning and business continuity. The portfolio holder will work with the police to deliver a domestic violence strategy and further roll out of the women’s safety charter. The cabinet member will work closely with the cabinet member for children and schools (to work to reduce the number of young people who are victims of crime or commit offences).
The cabinet member will have particular responsibility for:
· relationships with the voluntary and community sector;
· community councils and community engagement;
· relationships with faith communities;
· Southwark diversity standard;
· equalities and equal opportunities;
· volunteering;
· developing networks of community volunteer champions;
· working to ensure Southwark has a strong voluntary and community sector.
· crime & drugs strategy and alcohol control zones;
· licensing policy;
· lobbying to increase Southwark’s police;
· environmental health;
· trading standards;
· Southwark anti-social behaviour unit;
· domestic violence strategy;
· women’s safety charter;
· the community warden service;
· noise nuisance;
· CCTV and other safety measures in public places.
· licensing and standards of private rented sector landlords;
· Cleaner, Greener, Safer programme.