Safer Rotherham Partnership

Keeping Rotherham Safe

Here are the key areas we’re working on to make Rotherham safer. We want you to feel safe in your local area and we’re working together on these priorities every day in your community.

Our priorities

Protecting Vulnerable Children

We are preventing children from becoming victims of abuse and exploitation, working with partners and the public to reduce the risks through increased awareness and reporting, accurate recording of investigations and quality outcomes.

Protecting Vulnerable Adults

We are protecting vulnerable adults in our communities from being the victims of crime, abuse, and exploitation. We are working with partners to prevent modern slavery and provide support with substance misuse and mental health.

Safer and Stronger Communities

We are working with partners to build safer and stronger communities in Rotherham. We are taking a multi-agency problem solving approach to tackling neighbourhood crime and anti-social behaviour. We are taking action to prevent hate crime and the increasing risks from online crime.

Domestic & Sexual Abuse and Violence Against Women & Girls

We're preventing Domestic and Sexual Abuse, stalking and harassment, forced marriage, honour-based violence, and female genital mutilation. We're working with partners to protect women and girls from male violence. We're supporting victims to get help and rebuild their lives.

Violence and Organised Crime

We are working to protect people from being drawn into violent and organised crime. We are working as a partnership to proactively target and pursue criminal groups who are causing the highest harm in our communities

We are working with Counter Terrorism Policing to help keep everyone safe this summer. We are supporting their summer campaign, encouraging the public to stay alert and report anything that doesn’t feel right to security.

You can play your part by trusting your instincts, and if you see something that doesn’t feel right, tell security. Our teams will take every report seriously. You won’t be wasting their time.
Here are some quick tips to help you have a safe and enjoyable time:
• Arrive early, allowing more time for security checks and measures
• Be patient with security checks. It might seem inconvenient, but they are in place to help you.
• Keep it simple and minimise what you carry. Fewer bags to search will speed up entry.
• Stay alert and look out for each other. If you see something that doesn’t feel right, tell security. Don’t leave it to someone else.
• Don’t leave bags unattended. Never agree to look after a stranger’s bag, no matter how genuine they seem.
• If there is an incident, listen to staff and any announcements.
In an emergency, always call 999.
Have an amazing time, and if you see something that doesn’t feel right, report it to security straight away. Thank you for playing your part.

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What would you like to do?

• Report child sexual exploitation
• Get help for someone being abused or neglected
• Report domestic abuse
• Report a crime
• Report hate
• Report modern slavery

What is the Rotherham community safety partnership?

We’re a community safety partnership with statutory responsibilities, established under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 to “make Rotherham safe, keep Rotherham safe and to ensure communities of Rotherham feel safe.”

What this means is that the Safer Rotherham partnership is not an independent body; we operate under the law that’s already been established, working with government and agencies to make Rotherham a safer place to live, work and play.

We’re required by law to develop and implement a partnership plan to explain how authorities will work together to tackle issues that make people in our community feel unsafe.

View the partnership plan

We don’t have the same powers as the Police, so we don’t arrest people and we don’t take anyone to court. Instead, we team up with the Police and other partners to create strong strategic action plans for leadership, planning, performance management and problem solving to deliver positive, long term solutions for the people of Rotherham.

Rotherham’s community safety partners are:

• Rotherham Council
• South Yorkshire Police
• National Probation Service
• South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service
• Voluntary Action Rotherham
• South Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit and Victim Support
• South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
• South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority

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