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ABC Acceptable Behaviour Contract
Acute Trust The trust that manages Derriford hospital
ANPR Automatic Number Plate Recognition
Appraisal The assessment of particular projects to make sure that they provide value for money and that they will tackle the problem to be addressed.
ASB Anti -Social Behaviour
ASBO Anti - Social Behaviour Order
ASBU Anti-Social Behaviour Unit
BCU Basic Command Unit of Devon & Cornwall Police
Brownfield Land Land that has been previously developed.
BSC British Crime Survey
C&CS Crime and Community Safety Theme
CCTV Closed Circuit Television
CDRP Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership
CSCS Construction Skills Certification Scheme. A scheme designed to ensure that all construction workers have a basic knowledge of health and safety at work and can do their jobs competently and safely. Its becoming difficult to get a job in construction without a CSCS card.
CSP Community Safety Partnership
DA Domestic Abuse
DARE Drug Abuse Resistance Education- The DARE program gives kids the life skills they need to avoid involvement with drugs, gangs, and violence.
Data a collection of facts (plural of Datum)
Database a collection of related data stored so that it can be presented in a variety of ways.
Delivery Plan A plan, which sets out what a project or programme, intends to achieve, when, where and at what cost.
DLA Disability Living Allowance
DRC Partnership Devonport Regeneration Community (DRC) Partnership.
DV Domestic Violence
DWP Department of Work and Pensions
English Partnerships The national regeneration agency, helping to support high quality sustainable growth in England.
EPN Environmental Protection Notice
Evaluation An assessment, after a project or programme has started, of the extent to which objectives have been achieved, how efficiently they have been achieved, and whether there are any lessons to be gained for the future
Floor Targets Minimum targets to meet
FPN Fixed Penalty Notice
GOSW Government Office for the South West (Regional Regeneration Office) There are 9 Government Offices, each working with regional partners and local people to help deliver the Governments key aims at regional level.
Housing Corporation The Government body that regulates and funds housing associations in England. Housing Management Renewal Areas bring together local authorities and other agencies in areas where the housing market is thought to be failing.
ICT - Information and Communications Technology to do with computers, the Internet and electronic information and communications
INCAP Incapacity benefit
IT Information Technology
JCP Jobcentreplus
JSA Job Seekers Allowance
LAA Local Area Agreement. This is drawn up between a local authority, its partners and central government. It sets outcome targets reflecting local as well as national targets.
LCJB Local Criminal Justice Board
Learning and Skills The Government agency now responsible for adult training in England.
Life Long Learning The continuous development of skills and knowledge to enhance quality of life and employment prospects.
Local Public Service agreement Agreements between individual local authorities and the Government setting out the authoritys commitment to deliver specific improvements in performance, and the Governments commitment to reward these improvements. The agreement also records what the Government will do to help the authority achieve the improved performance.
LSP Local Strategic Partnership. New overarching partnerships of stakeholders who will develop ways to involve local people in shaping the future of their neighbourhood in how services are provided.
Mainstreaming Realigning the allocation of mainstream resources - such as the police and health services - to better target the most deprived areas.
Milestones (Progress Targets) Key events with dates, marking stages in the progress of a project or programme.
Monitoring Regular collection and analysis of input, output and outcome data, along with information concerning the problems being tackled.
MORI (Mass Observation Research Institute) A company specialising in Public Opinion Surveys. It has been going for a long item and is a world leader in its business.
NDC New Deal for Communities (NDC) - This is a Government funding programme designed to kick-start regeneration in the poorest areas, by empowering communities to address inequalities in their geographical areas. NDC takes forward the Government`s commitment to tackle social exclusion in the context of the strategy,
NDC Capital Money spent on the purchase or improvement of fixed assets such as buildings, roads and equipment.
NDC Revenue Money spent on items that are not fixed assets for example wages and office running.
Neighbourhood Renewal Provides public services and communities in the 88 poorest local authority districts with extra funds to tackle deprivation.
NI National Insurance
NVQ National Vocational Qualification
Outcomes (Results) Outcomes measure the longer-term changes in an area that were brought about by the regeneration programme.
Outputs Outputs measure what was directly produced by the regeneration programme, such as additional training places or more houses
PCC Plymouth City Council
PCSO Police Community Support Officer
PCT Primary Care Trust (PCT) - Primary Care is the care provided by people you normally see when you first have a health problem. It might be a visit to a doctor or dentist, an optician for an eye test, or just a trip to a pharmacist to buy cough mixture. NHS Walk-in Centres, and the phone line service NHS Direct, are also part of primary care. All of these services are managed for you by your local Primary Care Trust (PCT).
Performance Measure A qualitative or quantitative measurement that determines whether or not a target has been met.
PMF Performance Management Framework. This is an assessment process for central government to measure the NDCs performance
POPO Prolific and Priority Offender
POT Prolific Offenders Team
PPE Personal Protective Equipment. Any personal protective equipment which is required to keep somebody safe at work. For instance, hard hats for construction workers. The law says that employers must provide any necessary PPE for their employees.
PWA Plymouth Women's Aid
REC Racial Equality Council
SARC Sexual Assault Referral Centre
SATs Strategic Aims and Targets. These outline the broad aims of the NDC together with targets that can be measured.
YOT Youth Offending Team