Local Authority Community Safety
Enhance community safety with live, on demand data of hotspots and issues
Enhance community safety with live, on demand data of hotspots and issues
As adults, we have all experienced the difficulty of disclosing something uncomfortable, even to our trusted friends, and especially face to face.
Unfortunately, this is why many people stay silent.
Research has shown that for young people, the social rules that govern their lives (Dr Carlene Firmin, 2017) can make coming forward even harder.
We can, however, start the conversation by providing young people with a safe space to speak up. Now we ask…
Are the current student reporting methods engaging them as much as they could be?
Enable students to report their experiences across every context
Surrounding
Areas
School
Grounds
Home
Life
Community Safety Student Reporting…
Designed to remove the fear and stigma attached to reporting issues; The Student Voice Contextual Safeguarding platform is an interactive and child-friendly reporting tool that utilises interactive maps of all the contexts that your young people spend time in, so schools and colleges can improve these spaces with more targeted and effective interventions, and ultimately prevent future harm.
The Student Voice can go further than school level, sharing anonymised community data to a Local Authority dashboard, promoting the sharing of safeguarding information among essential services. This multiplies the shared protective capacities of schools, police, health, and social services through effectively gathering and sharing empirical safeguarding hotspot data, about the location, times of day where incidents occur, and age or year groups of young people experiencing them. This allows services to not only address current concerns but to also implement and track interventions intended to prevent future harm.
Whether a young person travels on the bus with peers, sees issues happening in the local park, or wants to highlight an unsafe street on their way to school, students can rank how safe they feel using a universal traffic light system, and report their experiences in these contexts.
What is The Student Voice?
The benefits
- Find where and when disruption repeatedly happens, to inform more targeted interventions.
- Gather on-demand insight on contextual issues and hotspots in and outside of school (local parks, shopping centres, towns, and on public transport..etc)
- Build trust and engagement with children and young people, and enhance feelings of safety and feeling heard.
- Encourage information sharing of community safety issues and earlier intervention.
- Keep school, local authority and partners better informed about the lived experiences of pupils, to impact decision making.
- Live, on demand data to identify and track patterns.
How our multi-dimensional reporting enhances your safeguarding culture
What school, MAT and Local Authority decision makers say
Local Authority Champion Young Voices
Trevor Cook, The London Borough Of Havering, 20+ schools
Identifying community hotspots where children feel unsafe
Jon Barnett, Warwick District Council
Proactively working with the Police
Rugby Free Secondary, Assistant Headteacher and DSL
Good governance and centralising data to identify patterns and trends
Stowe Valley MAT, 11 schools.
Gather and share community safety insight
Case study
from inadequate to good
“Leaders also introduced an online system for pupils to share their worries with staff.
Pupils are encouraged to share any concerns they have about returning to school.
Pupils value this and said that teachers respond to their concerns quickly.
This has helped to reduce some pupils’ anxieties about returning to school.”
Ofsted Inspection Report
TESTIMONIALS
Hear it from DSLs and Multi-Academy Trusts
“There are aspects of this platform that we can see making an immediate impact, such as the hotspot data tool where real physical locations of potential risks can be identified not just in school but across the wider community. We are excited to tackle student safeguarding as a community concern, not just a school concern.”
“What has been really successful is students being able to engage, make suggestions and feel included as part of our school.
It ticks the contextual safeguarding box whether its issues inside or outside of school, and allows us to quickly intervene with situations, whether it’s something that has occurred online or on our buses.
Students are starting to share things we wouldn’t have heard of, or what we would have only felt the impact of through their behaviour in school. Now they feel like they have a place where they can vent their frustrations….it allows us to react faster and more effectively to our responsibilities around addressing peer-on-peer issues.”
“Safeguarding students, and capturing their voice is something we are passionate about. The Student Voice is a genuine effort to place the student at the centre of the Bilton school community, to provide them with opportunities for true advocacy through authentic voice and to challenge them to play their part in the development of their school life.”
“We have been struggling to engage with a particular student for quite a few months. We launched The Student Voice this week, promoting it to our students as a safe space for them to voice anything that is concerning them and that we want to hear from them. We are very pleased to say that within the first few days, the student used the system to articulate their worries and what support they feel could help them.
The Student Voice has provided an invaluable safe space for our students to feel comfortable to communicate with us.”
“This is a fantastic resource – child-friendly and simple to use. It covers in-school, surrounding areas and home…It creates a proactive approach to reporting and understands the barriers children face in trusting the reporting system.”
“The first step to protecting students is listening to their experiences of where they feel safe and unsafe at school. The Student Voice tool supports schools to put Contextual Safeguarding into action.”
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