Other Organisations We Work With

Crime Concern

As previously stated we have connections with Crime Concern. Crime Concern is a registered charity that works with crime and disorder agencies across England and Wales, with the aim of reducing the fear of crime within communities in Suffolk, Crime Concern works in partnership with the Youth Offending Service, providing a range of reparation and mediation services for young people serving community sentences. This includes young people serving ISSPs. As part of their ISSP, Crime Concern will work with a young person to find appropriate ways for them to repay their victims or their local community for the offences they have committed. If victims choose to be involved, then the young person might be asked to participate in any of the following:

Below are further links to some of the activities carried out with the young people as part of their ISSP's:

If the victim decides not to participate, then the young person will be asked to undertake work which will benefit the community as a whole. This could involve a range of community projects - litter clearance, clearing conservation areas, gardening work for the elderly, leaflet delivery for Police Crime Reduction Units, etc. All the work undertaken by Crime Concern is supervised by trained Reparation and Mediation Oficers.

Aldeburgh Production

We also participate with other agency project, for example, Aldeburgh Production and Dance East. Emma Scott, the Education Manager wrote the following letter thanking us for bringing our "young people to both the DJ and Photography and the Dance and Music project in Ipswich over the past couple of weeks.

The young people worked incredibly hard and produced some good work. Despite obvious nervous feelings the young people overcame this very well. Over 4 days the young people were able to create a CD of mixes with their own unique cover and a dance with accompanying music track.

Thank you also for your enthusiasm and your colleagues as we know this will have impacted the commitment the young people showed to the projects. Paul Grant particularly made an effort with the dancing and it was lovely to meet Corinna and Craig.

Please find enclosed the CD's the young people made, please feel free to show this to anyone who needs to see what an amazing group of young people they are.

Thank you again and I hope that you will be involved with our projects in the future.

Kind Regards.

Roadkill

As operational Firefighters we are noticing an increasing number of Road Traffic Collisions (RTCs) where young people are involved. Through community interaction we have been looking at ways to reduce and ideally eliminate death and serious injury on Suffolk's roads.

Ff Trevor Hill, one of the 'RoadKill' team was a serving Firefighter with Surrey Fire & Rescue Service before transferring here to Suffolk Fire & Rescue where he is attached to Blue Watch, Princes St, Ipswich. Unfortunately Ff Hill encountered personal experience with the incidents we are aiming to reduce and ideally eliminate. One of his former colleagues was involved in an RTC with some joyriders while on his motorcycle that resulted in him losing both of his legs below the knee as well as receiving severe burns to his body and face and sadly losing his wife who was a pillion rider.

As a result of this incident Surrey Fire & Rescue Service organised 'RoadKill', a day where different partners were invited to deliver a hard-hitting day aimed at youth's either convicted of, or at a high risk of committing motoring offences. Partners invited to the day included: County Council's Road Safety Team, Police, Fire & Rescue Services, Doctors and RoadPeace. The audience is made up of young persons referred by the Court and the Youth Offenders Service. The young persons are required to attend the day as part of their court order.

Ff Hill's goal was to establish a similar scheme here in Suffolk and with the consent of Surrey Fire & Rescue Service we have adopted 'RoadKill here in Ipswich After 18 months of research, pre-planning and organisation we were pleased to host the first 'RoadKill' day on 2005 with eight more days planned for 2006 in the Ipswich area with a view to going county wide in the future.

Below is a list of all our partners who participate in 'RoadKill'. Each partner inputs their own professional knowledge, experience and sometimes-tragic personal circumstances into the day to highlight the dangers and raise awareness of road related incidents. A short section has been produced in this booklet to give you a background into their professions and show each partner's itinerary for the day:

Below are further links to some of the activities carried out with the young people as part of their ISSP's: