Last Updated: 26/07/2022
South Wales Police & Crime Commissioner Alun Michael and his team have been successful in their bid for funding worth almost £1.5million to deliver a series of initiatives aimed at keeping women safe, whilst also addressing anti-social behaviour in identified areas across Bridgend and Cardiff.
The two successful bids were developed in partnership with organisations including Cardiff Council, Bridgend Council, South Wales Fire & Rescue and Welsh Women’s Aid, as well as other key statutory and third sector partners across the two local authority areas in addition to South Wales Police themselves. The individual funding allocation of the two bids is:
The money will be used to deliver new approaches to address women’s safety, reduce neighbourhood crime and prevent anti-social behaviour as well as extending existing successful initiatives. The work will include:
The latest success in winning Home Office Safer Streets funds builds on over £1.4m already acquired by the Commissioner through previous bids for work across the RCT, Merthyr and Cardiff local authority areas.
Responding to the news, South Wales Police & Crime Commissioner Alun Michael said:
“I am extremely pleased that we have been successful in our latest bid to the Home Office’s Safer Streets Fund; the allocation of £1.5m is an endorsement of our approach to partnership working here in South Wales. We have worked closely with the councils and other partners to identify in detail the drivers of local problems and how best we can tackle them together.
“This money will be invested in making the streets of Cardiff and Bridgend safer for women and girls, as well as reducing the impact of anti-social behaviour across our communities. Preventing violence against women and girls has always been a specific priority for me as Commissioner and while we have done a lot to tackle the issue in South Wales, it remains one of the biggest problems we face and we must always strive to do more if we are to significantly reduce the intimidation and harassment experienced by women and girls across our communities.
“Working in partnership our focus is both on immediate benefits from practical measures like CCTV and physical improvements to the environment and to achieve sustainable long-term improvements to create safe, confident and resilient communities. It is a simple fact that when we work together we achieve more than we achieve alone.”
Every two years, the Ethnic Minority Welsh Women AchievementAssociation (EMWWAA) proudly hosts an awards ceremony to honour the best and brightest eth…
Read More >The death of two teenage boys, Kyrees Sullivan and Harvey Evans, in Ely last Monday was a terrible tragedy and my deepest condolences and thoughts are…
Read More >The Police Uplift Programme began in 2019, with the UK Government aiming to recruit an additional 20,000 officers across forces in England and Wales.
… Read More >