Source · Select Committees · Justice Committee
Recommendation 30
30
Acknowledged
Paragraph: 105
Issue clear guidance on governance and accountability for cross-area victim support collaboration
Recommendation
PCC, local authority and health board areas are rarely coterminous. This will necessarily add complexity to collaboration and the development of a single strategy for the delivery of victim support services for each police area. In setting guidance to the relevant authorities on their duty to collaborate, the Government must include clear guidance around governance and accountability.
Government Response Summary
The government will consider how statutory guidance might be used to clarify which local authorities and ICBs fall within each police area and to establish governance and accountability arrangements for non-coterminous areas.
Paragraph Reference:
105
Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
49. We recognise that multi-agency collaboration where areas are not coterminous can be challenging, and that local strategies will rightly reflect the range of activity across each different agency. In the Government’s response to the consultation, we set out our expectation that PCCs will play a convening role to drive forward relevant activity across the joint duty, and therefore the Bill defines a local area by PCC areas. We will consider how the guidance might be used to clarify which local authorities and ICBs fall within each police area, and we will continue to carefully consider how accompanying statutory guidance will clarify local and national governance and accountability arrangements.