Safer Streets is an extensive initiative that sees Cheshire Police ramping up its determination to make Cheshire’s streets even safer. It aims to benefit everyone who visits, lives or works in Cheshire. The Programme is working in the Local Authorities of Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire East, and Halton to deliver, in schools, an educational bystander programme.
Education
This programme will be delivered via a Train-The-Teacher approach directly to teachers within key stages 3, 4 and 5. The programme has three clear deliverables which include:
- Bespoke Bystander course and associated materials for students in key stage 3, 4 and 5.
- Train-the-Teacher Sessions – Training package whereby teachers can be given the skills to deliver the training.
- eLearning Package – to provide resources that can reinforce subject knowledge.
Bystander Sessions
Three bespoke 45-minute sessions for students in Key Stages 3, 4 and 5 focused on:
- Understanding the range of behaviours that constitute sexual harassment
- Introducing students to the 4Ds of bystander intervention (Distract, Delegate, Delay, Direct)
- Applying the 4D model safely to a range of real life, age-appropriate scenarios
- Knowing how to access support
Case studies in age-appropriate context and language, co-created by young people, will enable discussion of the key themes and application of theory to practice.
We adopt a whole setting approach which supports any ‘universal’ provision, and our materials are mapped to PHSE & RSE curriculums
The delivery is supported with PowerPoint presentations/handouts and detailed lesson plans with supportive background information, to guide discussions and to provide additional resources should children/parents or carers have additional questions.
Train-The-Teacher Bystander Workshops
The Bystander session resource is supported by a half-day online train-the-teacher session so that teachers have an opportunity to increase subject knowledge around sexual harassment and bystander initiatives to ensure they feel confident and able to deliver the three Bystander sessions to children and young people in schools.
eLearning Package
An eLearning package and associated resources has been developed with a focus for staff working in Night-time Economy, this eLearning package is also being made available to teachers to help provide subject knowledge and reinforce learning around sexual harassment, the myths and stereotypes that continue to enable and facilitate sexual harassment in our communities, and the importance of not colluding with these myths or minimising unacceptable behaviour, what actions can safely be undertaken to intervene or to refer or signpost victims to suitable support services.
eLearning outcomes include:
- Understand what sexual harassment is
- Recognise what predatory behaviours might look like
- Know how to intervene safely – be an active bystander
- Know where to refer victims should they want to report to the police or access support
All the training sessions and eLearning resources cover requisite legislation and guidance around definitions, tackling myths and stereotypes and unconscious bias, which might stop people identifying behaviours as problematic or predatory.
Night-Time Economy
This programme will be delivered directly to staff working within the night-time economy (which includes bars, clubs, door staff, taxi drivers, restaurant staff).
The programme has three clear deliverable which include:
- eLearning Package
- Bystander Training Sessions
- Train-the-Trainer Sessions
This eLearning package will help NTE workers learn more about sexual harassment, the myths and stereotypes that continue to enable and facilitate sexual harassment in our communities, and the importance of not colluding with these myths or minimising unacceptable behaviour. NTE workers will learn what actions can safely be undertaken to intervene or to refer or signpost victims to suitable support services.
eLearning outcomes include:
- Understand what sexual harassment is
- Recognise what predatory behaviours might look like
- Know how to intervene safely – be an active bystander
- Know where to refer victims should they want to report to the police or access support
The eLearning package aligns with the following training sessions and reinforces the learning.
Bystander Training Sessions
A bespoke two-hour Bystander Training workshop for staff who work in hospitality or the night-time economy.
The sessions will support staff to understand sexual harassment and the part we can all play in preventing it happening in our pubs, clubs, hotels, shops, restaurants and on the streets of our towns.
The 2-hour sessions are delivered by experienced practitioners and will focus on:
- What is meant by sexual harassment
- Recognising common myths and stereotypes about victims and perpetrators
- Recognising problem behaviours, sexual and predatory behaviour
- How to intervene safely if you witness sexual harassment
- How to support victims of sexual harassment
Train-The-Trainer Bystander Workshops
A three-hour Train-The-Trainer resource has been developed for community leads/trainers or NTE Managers with the skills and knowledge to enable them to deliver the Bystander Training Sessions to their own teams and rollout further to other night-time economy staff.
The Train-The-Trainer Bystander Workshops provide an opportunity to increase subject knowledge around sexual violence and bystander initiatives to ensure the trainer feels confident to deliver the two-hour Bystander training session.
All the training sessions and eLearning resources cover requisite legislation and guidance around definitions, tackle myths and stereotypes and unconscious bias which might stop people identifying behaviours as problematic or predatory and provide case example opportunities (including examples co-created by survivors of public harassment) to enable delegates to apply safe and effective bystander intervention.
Information about safeguarding and professional and personal responsibility will focus on empowering staff to take a victim/survivor led approach.
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Purple Leaf is Trading name of West Mercia Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Centre (WMRSASC)
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