London Draft CSP Guidance on Safety, Safeguarding and Crime Prevention

Winsafe Ltd

This is the draft guidance page for Community Safety Partnership Clusters in London. Please send comments on errors and omissions to me for forwarding. Similarly please make contact if you would like to join the partnership working on the project whether in West Norwood, Lambeth or across London.

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Neighbourhood Watch is the largest volunteer-led crime prevention charity in England and Wales with over 60,000 active volunteers, 2 million support households and the most comprehensive and wide ranging crime prevention and community support website (from How to reduce parcel and cycle theft through Reducing risk toolkits for loneliness and vulnerability to focused guidance for student safety and cybercrime. The cybercrime advice cross refers to Get Safe Online the main UK source of advice, guidance and Self Help Tool tool kits . The personal safety guidance refers to several services which activate audio and video recording and send SOS messages and alerts, including bSafe , Hollie Guard and Auggie (for those with limited vision). There are also apps like Life360 and Family Locator for tracking friends and family members. Meanwhile WalkSafe links to maps of safe havens and notifications of unsafe locations.

Neighbourhood Watch groups are independent of the police but in London operate within an agreement between the Borough Neighbourhood Watch Associations and the Metropolitan Police which includes co-operation with the relevant Community Police Teams and providing representatives on the Lambeth Safer Neighbourhood Board. Most groups are linked to Tenants and Residents Association and/or WhatsApp groups serving that estate or street.

All local residents are advised to visit join us – Neighbourhood Watch Network and sign up to receive the newsletter, national alerts and newsletters and discounts direct, thus reducing load on local co-ordinators in filtering information for Tenants and Residents Associations, WhatApp groups etc.

The Walksafe maps for the Homesafe, Follow Me and Student and Business features show the Safer Business Network Safe Havens including those in the Lambeth Safe Havens Directory. The Safe Haven video indicates what is entailed in becoming a safe haven, including registration with the Ask For Angela service. The maps are also used for the Good Night Out Campaign. See also Met Police advice on Spiking and Honest information about drugs (talktofrank.com).

The first Love Your Doorstep schools patrols in West Norwood meet at Kingsdale School and head out towards West Dulwich station and into Gipsy Hill. Volunteers are police checked and equipped with tabards, radios, first aid kits and basic safeguarding training. Parents, grandparents and local residents wanting regular exercise should volunteer via Sign up West Dulwich.

Information for parents, guardians and careers on safeguarding children, including how to spot problems, is here Comprehensive child safety guide – NSPCC and here Parentsafe – London Grid for Learning. Guidance for professionals, including teachers and youth group leaders is here Search LGfL safeguarding and online safety resources | LGFL , here Information & Resources | Lambeth Safeguarding Children Partnership and here Safeguarding & Risk Mgt – National Youth Agency

Information regarding safeguarding vulnerable adults is available from the Lambeth Safeguarding Adults Board with contacts for Advice agencies and helpful contacts for professionals, Homelessness prevention and housing advice , Domestic violence or abuse , Domestic Abuse Policy , Rough sleepers and StreetLink . Hourglass provides advice, guidance and reporting on elder abuse.

This links to the official guidance on how to Report or find a missing person . See also UK Missing Persons Unit and Missing People