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The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) is a national charity whose main aim and mission is to exchange life-enhancing skills and knowledge to reduce serious accidental injuries. RoSPA Scotland has recently secured funding from the Safer Communities Division, Safer Communities Directorate for a new child safety awareness campaign. The Project, named...
The Scottish Community Safety Network produces a monthly newsletter. We do it every month. OBVS! Every month, we try to have a different broad theme. To date these have included remote and rural; engagement; housing; empowerment etc… This month. December. Christmas. It’s about Kindness. We did a gig last month. We put on a showing...
We had no new Question of the Month in November, so we kept our previous question a little longer. In October, we asked: ‘Is the Community Empowerment Act making a difference in your context?’ The results were: Yes: 46% No: 31% Not sure: 23% Thanks to all those who took part in our poll! ...
November was a pretty busy month in the lead up to Christmas – I’ve been supporting our student intern Lisa with developing her research question and methods for her placement with us, and also supporting Molly who spent her S4 work experience week with us. You can read more about what Molly thought about her week in her...
We’ve just published a new Briefing Paper on the National Performance Framework, written by Tricia Spacey, currently working on secondment with us from Fife Council on Safer Communities Improvement and Partnerships. Introduction The Scottish Government launched the first National Performance Framework (NPF) in 2007. The framework set out in its purpose and outcomes its...
Our Question of the Month for September came from Frank Creighton ….in the Western Isles. His question was around work on Equally Safe and funding for a uniform approach to Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences. He asked: “Do partners think a dedicated funding resource should be established to support a uniform approach to the provision of...
We’ve just published our Annual Report for 2017-18. Introducing the Annual Report, SCSN Chair Mark McColl said, “We have made significant efforts throughout 2017 – 2018 to listen to our member’s views and engage with national stakeholders to ensure that the SCSN remains at the heart of influencing the community safety sector at a national...
Our Question of the Month for August came from Dr Toby Lowe, main speaker at our recent Measuring Outcomes and Learning in Complex Systems Event. Prior to the event, he wanted to know the answer to the question: Do the performance measures (KPIs, milestones etc) that come with your funding help you to do a...
Our Question of the Month for July related to our Public Health themed newsletter and the recent publication of the new National Public Health Priorities for Scotland. We asked, ‘Is it important that health is seen as part of the community safety picture?’ Results were: Yes – 80% No – 20% Not sure – 0%...
Further to our commitment to transparency in everything we do, and sharing of practice for learning, we’re publishing our Marketing and Communications Action Plan for 2018-2019. This action plan complements and supports the SCSN Business Plan for 2018-19, providing measurable outputs that we will use as evidence of how we are informing, engaging, influencing and...