What's happening on the day?

See below for examples of who is doing what to mark the Ready, Steady, Safe campaign on National Personal Safety Day:

British Transport Police’s Neighbourhood Policing Teams around the country will be running public events on the day.

While crime on the Capital’s transport network is low, Transport for London (TfL) is committed to helping passengers keep safe and feel secure whilst travelling around. As part of National Personal Safety Day, TfL will work with its policing partners to engage with Londoners; providing advice on how to make their journeys safer and raising awareness of what the police, TfL, SLT and other partners are doing to improve safety and security across the transport system.

The Safer & Stronger Communities Partnership of Telford & Wrekin Council will be holding a display/information stand in the Telford Town Centre on 12th October, where their team will be giving out Personal Safety information and advice to the public. They will also be displaying A1 National Personal Safety Day posters within the Town Centre and on their websites.
In addition to the above the Unit will be promoting National Personal Safety Day to local schools and youth networks.

6th Formers at Simon Langton Girls’ Grammar School in Canterbury will be giving a special presentation about personal safety on transport .

Farebrother Chartered Surveyors in London will be helping to improve staff safety by displaying National Personal Safety Day posters and literature around their offices, as well as posting the relevant safety information on their intranet.

SAFETYnet,a specialist network from HQN who are based in York, are the first national network devoted to health and safety in housing. This year they are promoting National Personal Safety Day to their members throughout the UK and encouraging them to organize local events for both their staff and their residents. For further details go to www.snet.org.uk

CONNEXIONS

Ronnie Cowell works for Connexions Nottinghamshire and has been a Tutor since 2004. He has put information up on his organisations intranet system about National Personal Safety Day with links to our website, downloadable leaflets, posters and advice for young people.
He will also be reminding his colleagues that the information is there on National Personal Safety Day!

Tutors

As part of National Personal Safety Day, one of our trainers put together training materials for our Tutors to use for a “safety on public transport” awareness session.
Below are some of the Tutors who have organised sessions within their workplaces and helped raise awareness of our campaign and national day.

Lynne Main works for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and has been one of our Tutors since 2004. On National Personal Safety Day she will be delivering 4 “bitesize” awareness raising sessions within her workplace.
The sessions will be open to all staff and with places filling up fast she will be expecting to have around 60-80 attendees in total! With such success Lynne and her organisation are looking to hold the same sessions in their York and Bristol offices too.

Jenny Watmore-Eve works for St Joseph’s Hospice and has been a Tutor since 2008. On 22 October she will be running a session open to all staff within her organisation.

Jasmina Goodair works for The Learning Partnership for Cornwall & The Isles of Scilly and has been a Tutor since this summer. The awareness session will be part of a general Personal Safety training day for all employees with particular focus on lone working.
This will be the first training day Jasmina’s has delivered since becoming a Tutor.

David Watts works for St Joseph’s Hospice and has been a Tutor since this summer. On 5 October he delivered the awareness raising session as part of a longer training session.

Penny Swallow works for Youth Connexions Hertfordshire and has been a Tutor since 2007. In the first week of October she delivered the awareness session to volunteers.
On 9 October she will be delivering the session as part of a general Personal Safety training day to staff whose job titles include Personal Advisors, Youth Work Team Leaders and Employment Training Advisors.

Penny will also be using the event to launch the new Youth Connexions Personal Safety Policy, which will then go out to all members of staff on National Personal Safety Day.

A big thank you and keep up the good work!