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Save the date: 15-19 September 2025
#SaferCommunitiesAwarenessWeek
The Safer Communities Awareness Week is an opportunity to raise the profile of community safety work and highlight some of the innovative work that is taking place.
Started by the Wales Safer Communities Network the first Awareness Week took place in September 2023. This year we’ll be raising awareness of Community Safety and our theme ‘working together’ from 16 to 20 September.
If you’d like to submit any case studies or good practice examples to be shared throughout the week, please do so by emailing us at safercommunities@wlga.gov.uk with the subject line ‘Safer Communities Awareness Week – Case Studies’.
We have created some suggested social media messages for you to share within your organisations, as well as with your partners, networks and local groups. You can download the bilingual toolkit below.
Follow us on our social media channels to stay up to date with activity throughout the awareness week:
If you are posting about the week on social media, please use the hashtags and tag us!
Hashtags: #SaferCommunitiesAwarenessWeek #SCAW24
Tag us: @WalesSaferComms (X, previously Twitter) & @WalesSaferCommunitiesNetwork (LinkedIn)
Catch us at the Mastering Diversity Conference at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium. The conference aims to educate, inspire, recognise and promote personal identity. We’ll have an exhibition stand and members of the Network team will be on hand to chat to you about what we do and how we support community safety for everybody in Wales.
The Safer Communities Awards are open for nominations and now in the second year of celebrating successes in community safety. We’ll be showcasing last year’s overall winner, Operation Blue Tylluan from North Wales Police Central Area Priority Crime Team. The Network team will also be giving a run-down of this year’s awards ceremony and how to send in nominations.
If you’re interested in the awards but want to know more or want to learn about award winning projects join us for this session.
Community safety is a collective responsibility – Government, Public sector, Third and voluntary sector, Private sector and the communities themselves.
Hear from Ben Lloyd, Director at G4S Community, about the impact that collective responsibility makes on the outcomes for individuals.
The Wales Data Analysis Innovation and Improvement Network (WDAIIN) is holding a hackathon to look at data collection and sharing relating to synthetic opioids and the impact on our communities.
The Network is hosting the event on behalf of WDAIIN in-person in Cardiff. Please get in touch if you’d like to be involved or know more about this event.
