Children take part in football tournament to celebrate Black History Month
School children were invited to Burton Albion football club on Thursday, 16 October to take part in a football tournament for Black History Month.
Your council tax 2025-26
Panel confirmed £19/year council tax increase (5.12% Police, 5.8% Fire) to protect service improvements amid reduced government funding.
Over £16m invested in services to address domestic abuse
Over £16m invested in domestic abuse services since October 2018 by the Commissioner’s Office, Staffordshire County Council and Stoke-on-Trent City Council.
Substance misuse worker funded by Commissioner’s community fund
Staffordshire Commissioner for Police, Fire & Rescue and Crime Ben Adams visited a drug and alcohol misuse centre in Cannock to see work underway as a result of funding from the Commissioner’s Locality Deal Fund (LDF).
Staffordshire Commissioner’s Office secures almost £5m in government funding
The Office has secured almost £5m from government funding streams since 2020, in a partnership approach to reducing ASB, violence and acquisitive crime.
£1m to be invested in tackling ASB in Cannock and areas of Stoke-on-Trent
£1m Safer Streets 5 funding secured for Cannock, Longton and Tunstall including CCTV, lighting, outreach workers and education programmes.
Commissioner invests Safer Streets funds in Stoke-on-Trent
£250,000 Safer Streets funding for Stoke-on-Trent including £17,000 for Blurton Community Garden and £30,000 for Hope Street shopfront improvements.
Investment to tackle ASB and violence against women and girls in Newcastle-under-Lyme
Over £148,500 invested in Newcastle-under-Lyme to tackle ASB and violence against women and girls through CCTV, lighting, street pastors and community awareness campaigns.
Investment to tackle ASB and violence against women and girls in Stafford
Almost £150,000 allocated to Stafford for lighting, gating, CCTV, crime prevention improvements and educational programmes within schools.
Domestic abuse and sexual violence victims’ services to share £471k funding pot
Five local organisations providing domestic abuse or sexual violence support will share a funding pot from the Staffordshire Commissioner’s Office.
Funding available to help address local community safety issues
A range of funding allocations are available to support innovative projects to tackle ASB and other local community safety priorities.
Have your say on Police and Fire council tax contributions
Staffordshire Commissioner Ben Adams asks people to have their say on how much they would be prepared to pay for policing and fire & rescue in the region.