London Borough of Sutton Supporting People Inspection
Rating: Good service | Promising prospects for improvement
The Safer Sutton Partnership (SSP) provides a clear strategic lead on many of the issues covered by Supporting People. It is the first service of its kind nationally that co-locates a Police and Community Partnership Unit, a local authority community safety team and a drug and alcohol action co-ordinating team. Its work covers a variety of areas including:
- drugs/alcohol treatment and provision;
- Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA);
- residential rehabilitation placements;
- prolific and priority offenders;
- domestic violence;
- young people;
- race and hate crime; and
- community safety in general.
It delivers the local crime and disorder strategy, and implements the national drug and alcohol strategy locally and there are clear links into a number of different strategic areas. It contributed to the Supporting People five-year strategy, and also provides input to the housing and local homelessness strategies. It has good links with Supporting People and has had a direct influence on the Supporting People programme. An example is the establishment of the floating Support Worker for substance misuse and involvement in the reconfiguring of Supporting People funded serves.