On October 23rd Council approved the Community Safety and Well-Being Plan Roadmap
The report sets out the recommended approach and next steps for the creation of legislatively required Community Safety and Well-Being Plan for the City of Ottawa.
The Provincial Planning Framework outlines four areas of focus for the plan which include:
- Social development which focuses on promoting and maintaining well-being;
- Prevention which focuses on proactively reducing identified risk;
- Risk intervention which focuses on mitigating situations of elevated risk; and
- Incident response which focuses on critical and non-critical incident response.
Council approved a six cumulative phase approach to develop a Community Safety and Well-Being Plan by 2021 to address the root causes of crime, social disorder and ill health.