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The first ever Safer Communities Awareness Week for Wales is taking place on 18 – 22 September 2023.
Below you will find further information including the schedule for the week, registration details for the daily Lunch & Learn sessions, and how you and your organisation can get involved.
If you have any queries or would like to discuss opportunities to get involved, please contact us at safercommunities@wlga.gov.uk.
This year, the Wales Safer Communities Network is hosting its first ever Safer Communities Awareness Week for Wales. The Network is the strategic voice that champions and connects everyone involved in community safety in Wales so they can create safer communities – locally, regionally and nationally.
The Awareness Week is an opportunity to raise the profile of community safety work and highlight some of the innovative work that is taking place across Wales.
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 look forward to celebrating the work that is taking place to make our communities safer across Wales with you!
At the beginning of the Week, we launched our first Wales Safer Communities Network film with Rt Hon Mark Drakeford MS, First Minister of Wales, to highlight the importance of working in partnership to promote safe, strong, confident communities, and how the Network is invaluable to achieving this. Follow the link below to view the film.
Coffee Talk – Change That Lasts with Welsh Women’s Aid
We ran an online Coffee Talk morning session with Welsh Women’s Aid to highlight the Change That Lasts model. This was an interactive session where we encouraged delegates to ask questions and share local knowledge and good practice examples. Click on the link below to view a recording of the session.
Lunch & Learn – ‘Sound’ and ‘She Is Not Your Rehab’ Campaigns
We ran a Lunch & Learn session with Welsh Government, looking at the Sound campaign, and Plan International UK/ Girls Rights Collective Wales introduced the She Is Not Your Rehab visit to Wales from New Zealand at the end of the year. View the recording of the session below to find out more about the campaigns and how you and your organisation can get involved and benefit.
Lunch & Learn – Single Unified Safeguarding Review
On Wednesday we hosted a Lunch & Learn with the Single Unified Safeguarding Review (SUSR) team, to share progress to date and provide an update following our seminar in December 2022. View the recording of the session below to find out more about what is to come with this groundbreaking project.
Lunch & Learn – Antisocial Behaviour in Wales
This Lunch & Learn session included presentations from the Chair of the All Wales Antisocial Behaviour (ASB) Practitioners Network and the South Wales Police Lead for the ASB Hot Spot Pilot. View the recording to find out more about the Practitioners Network, the key themes and outcomes of the July Conference, forward planning, and ASB “hotspot” areas across Wales and how this relates to Serious Violence.
Members Portal Soft Launch
On the last day of the week, we held a Soft Launch of the Wales Safer Communities Network Members Portal, where partners could find out more about the Portal and how to become a member of the Network. If you’re interested in becoming a member, please get in touch.
The first ever Safer Communities Awareness Week for Wales is taking place on 18 – 22 September 2023.
Please share the messages of the week widely within your organisations, as well as with your partners, networks and local groups. You can download template social media messages and the bilingual poster below.
If you are posting about the week on social media, please use the hashtags and tag us!
Hashtags: #SaferCommunitiesAwarenessWeek #SaferCommunities2023 #SCAW23
Tag us: @WalesSaferComms (Twitter) & @WalesSaferCommunitiesNetwork (LinkedIn)
