The Community Safety department is involved in lots
of other important schemes, including:
A nationally recommended package aimed at getting secondary
school children to think about joyriding and its consequences,
using peer pressure to deter joyriding. We help the
police deliver the roadshow in risk areas.
Selected officers work as team leaders, or in a supporting role,
of some of the Prince's Trust teams of young adults, which aim to
improve their initiative, teamwork, work experience and
self-confidence via self-chosen projects leading to positive
achievement.
Part of the national Working With Young People in the Community
initiative. An initial scheme has been set up in Ashfield Young
Offenders Institute for better-behaved inmates, with plans to
extend to the general young public at selected fire stations.
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Youth Offending Team (YOT)
We are regularly involved with restorative justice for
young people, with the aim of reducing offending.
An independent trust scheme aiming to deter young people from
crime by showing them the consequences; we aid by talking about
hoax calls, nuisance firesetting, joyriding and their consequences
to our service and society.
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Displays at public events
In order to get the fire safety message to the wider public we
have a chip pan fire disaster demonstration trailer, two
general-purpose fire safety message display trailers, and a
sprinkler demonstration trailer.
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Chip Pan Fire Disaster Demonstration Trailer
A spectacular way to get the dangers of chip pan fires across,
especially to those who will soon be leaving home such as
students, and stressing the likelihood of injury.
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Fire Safety in the home talks
We talk to groups of all kinds to educate people how to be
fire-safe in their own homes, including the elderly, primary
and secondary school children and those with learning
difficulties.
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Lifeskills – Learning for Living
Most year six school children will take part in an
interactive multi-agency learning experience to learn fire safety
in a mock fire situation. We also offer a range of other
safety scenarios including road safety, water safety, basic first
aid, countryside, garden and kitchen safety. An excellent
example of the benefits of multi-agency working, achieving what no
one agency could alone.
North Somerset’s interactive multi-agency learning experience
aimed at infant school children.
Usually part of multi-agency health promotion days targeting
specific groups by means of posters, leaflets and an officer to
answer questions.
Each year the various local Trading Standards departments run
testing campaigns with the aim of removing dangerous or unsafe
electric blankets from circulation – usually in conjunction with a
voucher scheme to buy a replacement cheaper. We aid each year
by providing some of the venues at fire stations, and staff to
support.