This is the second of a short series of posts summarising how the council believes it’s doing in meeting it’s main priorities.  It’s a summarised version of a public report, which itself is a summary of hundreds of pages of reports, backed up by data, looking at every aspect of the 600+ services we deliver.

This summary – and so any errors or omissions contained – is my own.  It comes from the 4th Quarter 2010/11 Corporate Performance Report which comes to the Council’s Executive Committee on Wednesday.  The report itself is publicly available – you can read it from page 256 of the Executive agenda here.

A safer, stronger Stockport

• 90 new affordable homes were built last year
• Serious violent crime down by 19%, serious acquisitive crime down by 8.7%.
• An overall decrease of 5.8% across all crimes – 1,166 fewer victims of crime (this is the latest in a long line of falls in crime and reflects the strong partnerships in Stockport between police, council and other groups).
• Some crimes did increase in the last quarter: serious woundings, domestic burglaries and business robberies were up and these are being addressed.
• 14 alley-gating schemes will be completed during the first quarter of the year 2011/12.
• 25% reduction in reports of anti-social behaviour over the year, with the Police’s Operation Antidote targeting ASB ‘hotspots’.
• Prolific and priority offenders and re-offending less (very important as so much crime is down to the same small number of criminals).  Re-offending rates amongst this group is now 13%, against a target of 21%.
• Youth offending has reduced during the year (194 people entered the criminal justice system over the last year compared to 209 the year before).
• The number of new offenders from more deprived areas has also fallen.
• A number of events have been held in poorer areas to give residents more say over their area.  ‘You Say, We Pay’ participatory budgeting events, consultations and community projects in Brinnington, Offerton andAdswood and Bridgehall have had over 1,000 participants.
• Our communities continue to get cleaner, with the exception of fly-posting which has seen a small rise.

Overall, this looks to me to be a good story.  There’s always more to do – any crime is too much, any anti-social behaviour blights lives and our streets can always be cleaner.  But good progress has been made over the last few years and continues to be made.

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