Joined-Up Working of Community Wardens and Housing Estate Services Officers

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Proposals are being considered to join up the working arrangements of Portsmouth City Council’s twenty nine Community Wardens (who operate across the whole city) and twenty nine Housing Estate Services Officers (who currently operate only on local authority housing property).

It is envisaged that the new joined-up (but as yet unnamed) service should commence in autumn 2011.

The main proposals are:

1. the current Housing Estate Service Officers (ESO) and Community Wardens (CW) will be joined together to form a new single, visible, service under the direction of Community Safety to commence operations in Autumn 2011.

2. ESO’s and CW’s will continue to undertake their existing key tasks but joining the two services will make them more productive, primarily by avoiding existing duplication of patrolling and reporting and ESO’s will extend their areas of operation to land adjacent to their current work areas.

3. there are no service reductions or budget cuts and line management arrangements will remain unchanged.

4. Community Safety direction for the new service will be based around Community Safety priorities (see below) and the new service will pay attention to these priorities, ensuring appropriate action is taken

- Alcohol Misuse

- Young People at Risk

- Drug Misuse

- Reoffending

- Domestic Abuse

5. No additional costs are envisaged from joining the two services.

Detailed work on the possible working arrangements for a new joined-up service is underway.

If you would like more information about the proposals or would like to comment, please contact David Mearns, Housing Service (David.mearns@portsmouthcc.gov.uk) or Bruce Marr, Community Safety (Bruce.marr@portsmouthcc.gov.uk).