Recommendation 8

The Home Office told us that one of the many benefits of the ‘Safer Streets’ mission is that it will create a framework for collaboration across government and beyond.15 It told us that progress will be overseen by a mission board, which has met four times since September, and the sub–board (including Home Office and MoJ Ministers), which has met three times. The Home Office, which has responsibility for delivering the ‘Safer Streets’ mission, also spoke positively about the accountability structures that are in place to scrutinise government’s progress against the mission objectives via the Prime Minister’s regular stock–takes.16 Understanding the demand of local services