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Freedom From Fear makes local impact
03 April 2006
Usdaw’s campaign to make the High Street safer for shoppers and staff is paying off as local authorities embrace the union’s Freedom From Fear initiative.
Since the launch of the Freedom From Fear campaign Usdaw has been urging local authorities to adopt a joined-up approach bringing together their responsibilities for H&S enforcement and for wider community safety under crime and disorder laws.
Usdaw is committed to working with local authorities to raise the profile of H&S enforcement and to help build safer communities for our members and the customers who use their shops.
Local initiatives include links with Bath and North East Somerset Council; the secondment of an Usdaw rep to a safer-shopping partnership in South Wales; on-going work with Bury MBC, and other initiatives with the Welsh Assembly and Scottish Executive. In addition North Eastern Division is organising a series of seminars with the North East Retail Crime Partnership.
Meanwhile, at the annual conference on H&S enforcement by local authorities in December 2005, Westminster City Council won the HSC award for innovation with its project on violence against retail staff.
The award was given for Westminster's 'CivicWatch Business' project - which did exactly what Usdaw recommends - and saw enforcement staff and police crime prevention officers making joint visits to retail and licensed businesses to advise on protection against violence and crime.
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