Training & Events

Wales Safer Communities Network Seminars & Events

The Wales Safer Communities Network runs regular sessions on community safety and has lots of opportunities for you to get involved. Where possible, we aim to record all of our seminars.

Spring/ Summer Seminar Series 2024

Registration for the Spring/Summer Seminar Series is now open, to register please follow the links…

• Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Overview – Thursday 18 April, 14:00 – 15:30
• Suicide Prevention – Tuesday 30 April, 14:30 – 16:00
• Anti-Social Behaviour Hotspot funding – Tuesday 21 May, 14:00 – 15:30
• Local Place Shaping – Tuesday 11 June, 10:00 – 11:30
• Serious Violence- Strategic Assessment Review – Friday 28 June, 10:00 – 11:30

Spring/ Summer Seminar Series 2023

Here you will find the post-seminar packs and, where possible, a copy of the presentations from the seminars in our Spring/ Summer Series 2023.

• Understanding & Preventing Violence with Children and Young People, 02 May 2023.
• Wildfires: A strategic partnership approach in Wales, 16 May 2023.
• Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Overview, 01 June 2023.
• Taking a different approach to achieve an anti-racist Criminal Justice System in Wales, 22 June 2023.

Autumn/ Winter Seminar Series 2022/23

Here you will find the post-seminar packs and, where possible, recordings of the seminars in our Autumn/ Winter Series 2022/23.

• Encouraging Safety in the Home: Home Safety Checks and Mapping, 15 November 2022.
• An Introduction to the Single Unified Safeguarding Review (SUSR), 06 December 2022.
• New Communities: A trauma informed approach to welcoming refugees and asylum seekers, 17 January 2023.

Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) Awareness Week 2022

Here you will find the post-seminar pack and recording of the Network’s ASB Awareness Week 2022 Seminar: Preventing Young People Involved in Anti-Social Behaviour from Escalating into Serious Violence and Organised Crime, 18 July 2022.

Wales Safer Communities Network Virtual Launch – March 2022

Here you will find the post-launch pack and recording of the virtual Wales Safer Communities Network Launch: Reinvigorating Community Safety in Wales Together, 02 March 2022.

Winter Seminar Series 2022

Here you will find the post-seminar packs and recordings of every seminar in our Winter Seminar Series 2022.

• Citizen & Community Engagement: Strengthening local response to Serious Organised Crime (SOC) with Clear Hold Build, 10 February 2022.
• Right Wing Extremism in Wales: What we’ve heard and what works, 22 February 2022.
• Safer Streets Wales: Sharing good practice and learning, 14 March 2022.

Summer Seminar Series 2021

Here you will find the post-seminar packs and recordings of every seminar in our Summer Seminar Series 2021.

• Responding to challenges of Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB), 08 June 2021.
• Wales Data Analysis Innovation and Improvement Network (WDAIIN) Showcase Event, 22 June 2021.
• Developing your own Public Information Campaign, 22 July 2021.