Transcript AIM 1 - Prevention

Building Safer Communities
National Community Safety Convention
Lewis Ramsay
Assistant Chief Officer
Prevention & Protection
Scottish Fire and Rescue Service
Building Safer Communities Programme
Our vision
Our vision is of a flourishing, optimistic Scotland in which
resilient communities, families and individuals live safe
from crime, disorder and danger.
Our aims are to reduce the number of victims of crime by
250,000 by 2017-18 and to reduce the number of victims of
unintentional injury over the same period (amount currently
being scoped).
Phase 1 – Reduce Crime
• The aim Delivery Phase 1 is to reduce crime. Specifically, the aim is to
reduce the cumulative number of victims of crime by 250,000 by 2017-18.
• Working initially with seven places across Scotland:
– Craigmillar (Edinburgh)
– Ferguslie Park (Renfrewshire)
– Fraserburgh Harbour (Aberdeenshire)
– Gorbals (Glasgow)
– Possilpark (Glasgow)
– South East Alloa (Clackmannanshire)
– Polmont Young Offenders Institution.
Phase 1 – Reduce Crime
What works to reduce crime
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Continued investment in early-years and parenting programmes is crucial in the promotion of
self-control as well as improving life-chances more generally;
A child protection system which identifies and addresses abuse and neglect as early as
possible is important, given the evidence of a link between this experience and offending
behaviour;
The school environment has an important role in ensuring a range of positive outcomes for
young people;
The most effective strategies in encouraging positive behaviour through school-based
interventions focus on developing positive healthy relationships;
Effectively tackling drug and alcohol misuse is key to reducing crime. The underlying causes of
substance misuse may be rooted in low self-control due to ineffective and inconsistent
parenting in the early years; and
Strong societal attachments have been identified in the form of stable employment and good
familial relationships as key factors in promoting law abidance;
Phase 2- Reducing Unintentional Harm
Aim:
Reduce the number of individuals affected by
predictable and preventable unintentional physical
or psychological harm.
Why Phase 2?
• Unintentional injuries accounted for approximately 1 in 8 emergency hospital
admissions for children and 1 in 10 for adults in Scotland in 2012/2013.
• There were 53,371 emergency admissions to hospital in Scotland for
unintentional injuries in 2012/13. This is a decrease of approximately 2% on
the previous year.
• There were 1,629 deaths in Scotland in 2012 due to unintentional injury, 14 in
children under the age of 15 and 1,615 in adults aged 15 years and over.
• There were 33,129 emergency admissions to hospital due to falls in Scotland
in 2012/13. This represents 62% of the total number of emergency
admissions to hospital due to unintentional injuries.
• Children and adults in the most deprived areas are more likely than children
and adults in the least deprived areas to have an emergency admission to
hospital for an unintentional injury.
Source: Information Services Division (ISD)
Focus of the Programme
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Tackling risk and vulnerability
– Focus on those issues which are driving wider inequality
– Target the most vulnerable
– Target specific ages and groups to address highest risk
– Move towards prevention, instead of reaction.
Being evidence based and outcomes focused
– Be led by shared evidence, including evidence about what works
Linking to existing activity
– Build on things that work
– Look at wider policy areas and joint priority areas
– Feed into the wider BSC programme
Supporting resilience
– Help build greater community resilience (so that people take responsibility for their own safety)
– Community and place are important, and should be part of prevention strategies
Building a positive culture
– Culture is very important
– How we tackle unintentional harm is as important as what we do
– It is important that people are supported to understand risk, without becoming overly risk averse.
Governance
• BSC Board
• Phase 2 Executive Group – Chaired by ACO Lewis
Ramsay
• Four thematic sub groups
– Intelligence and Data
– Home Safety
– Outdoor Safety
– Road Safety
• Strategic Assessment
Partnership Working
• Communities
– Community Empowerment
– Assets based approach
• Co-design, co-production and co-delivery
• Joint resourcing
• Improved data and information sharing
• Building upon what works
• Support and supplement community planning
• Take cognisance of national drivers – health and social care
integration, community empowerment, inequalities etc.