How we can help

We provide:

Regulatory service assurance and compliance

  • Peer review of resourcing capacity, capability and performance

  • Support and guidance to implementing good practice levels of ongoing assurance made simple - monthly, quarterly and annually

Investigative policy and practice

  • Policy support to codify and assure investigation policy and standards

  • Process support to strengthen quality, rigour and consistency of investigations

  • Practical case review support for individual investigations

Enforcement streamlining

  • Guidance to support expedient decision-making on statutory nuisance cases and enforcement decisions

  • Decision-support for quick and easy processing of in-house, informal appeals against statutory notices and fixed penalties

  • Streamlined process tool and training for fast-tracking prosecutions avoiding unnecessary effort and delay

  • Assistance with best practice development of well-evidenced PSPO controls

Policy writing and updating

Assistance with writing and peer review your mandatory and local policies:

  • Enforcement - both over-arching and thematic policies

  • RIPA

  • Anti-social behaviour corporate policy

  • Service operational policies and protocols

Strategic and tactical planning and coordination

  • Assistance with strategic planning

  • Guidance and training on where strategies tend to fail

  • Support with development of inter-service / inter-agency closer working mechanisms and partnerships for greater impact

Operational planning

  • Guidance and support for good practice in operational planning (service plans, work programmes)

Peer reviews and investigations

  • Bespoke reviews to provide added assurance

  • Independent investigations to assist internal review mechanisms into formal complaints about service (etc.)

Mentoring and coaching

  • Mentoring for new service managers

  • Support for coaching duty-holders to secure improved compliance

Community engagement and co-production

  • Guidance on effective methods of community engagement and co-production

Support services (ask us for details)

  • Direct support in delivering key technical services when your staffing resources are insufficient or under pressure

Training

  • Disclosure practicalities

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We have access to a wide range of tried and tested approaches, experiences and real-world outcomes.

We look forward to talking about what's needed and how we can help you to achieve it.