Maureen Bailey, Inner Strength Network

1. WELCOME TO HATE CRIME
BYSTANDER TRAINING
Maureen Bailey
Facilitator, Coach Consultant

2. Maureen Bailey
https://www.instagram.com/maureenb
aileyofficial/
07903737780
maureen@innerstrengthnetwork.com
Resilience/Justice Coach
Consultant
❑ Founder and CEO of Inner Strength Network
❑ 1-2-1 Coaching clients and group coaching
❑ Consultant with over 25 years experience
❑ Supporting domestic abuse clients before
during and after abuse
❑ Trained CEO Ambassador on Internet Safety
Issues
❑ Resilience Training for Young People in Schools
colleges and Universities
❑ Bid writing support and equality issues
❑ Confidence building among women
❑ Chair of Hate Crime Strategic Board for Merton
leading on 3rd Party Reporting
❑ Training to making it a safer place to live work,
and play

3. The LCC Campaign
Love Celebrate Commemorate
Black British Women
Lilian Bader
First Black woman
to join the RAF Ebony Rainford-Brent
the first to play for the England team.
Malorie Blackman
OBE

4. Ground Rules
 Creating a safe space for an
open discussion:
 Respect
 Confidentiality
 No question or answer is
wrong

6. What is a Hate Crime?
 With hate crime it is ‘who’ the victim is, or ‘what’ the victim appears to be that
motivates the offender to commit the crime.
 A hate crime is defined as 'Any criminal offence which is perceived by the victim
or any other person, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice based on a
person's race or perceived race; religion or perceived religion; sexual orientation or
perceived sexual orientation; disability or perceived disability and any crime
motivated by hostility or prejudice against a person who is transgender or
perceived to be transgender.'
 A hate incident is any incident which the victim, or anyone else, thinks is based on
someone’s prejudice towards them( no crime has been committed)

7.  Niyad Farah was punched to the
ground and dragged into a doorway
during the attack.
 Attacked occurred dec 2019
 Last week Newsnight revealed serious
failings in the police investigation into
the attack on the three women, all of
Somali descent, on 22 December last
year

8. What do we mean by Bystander?
 Dictionary definition is “a person who
is present at an event or incident but
does not take part.”
 Observer
 Passive
 Witness
 Somebody who sees and does
nothing

9. Bringing in the Bystander - Activity 1

10. Activity 2 - Visualisation
 Imagine somebody you care about
being verbally abused in the street.
 A third person is present, they are in a
position to do something, but walks
away, leaving the person you care
about alone.
 How do you feel?

11. The Bystander Toolkit
 Direct
 Indirect- Distraction/
disruption
 Engage Allies
 Defer to others
 After the fact/the next day

12. A GROUP OF PEOPLE OUTSIDE YOUR SHOP ARE
HASSLING A MUSLIM WOMAN. THEY ARE GRABBING HER
HEADSCARF AND CHANTING SOME REALLY HATEFUL
COMMENTS ABOUT HER RELIGION. YOU ALSO SEE THAT
A YOUNG CHILD IS WITH HER. OTHERS SEE WHAT IS
HAPPENING BUT ARE DOING NOTHING
Scenario – Hate Speak

13. Activity 3 – Agree, Disagree, Unsure
HATE CRIME remains a serious issue in
England

14. Statistics on
Hate Crime
 11% increase in Hate Crime across
England and Wales last year – 78,991
recorded offences
 76% ( nearly 63,000) were race
related. 14% ( over 10,000) were
categorised as homophobic crime.
 Picture mirrored in Merton, 2019/20 –
300 reported race hate crimes and
just under 45 incidents based on
sexual orientation.
 Significant under reporting – develop
a network of local 3rd party reporting
centres – MCIL, BAME Voice,
Association of the Polish Family, Inner
Strength Network, Merton College,
South London Tamil Welfare

15. Activity 3 – Agree, Disagree, Unsure
Women who remain in abusive relationship
need to take some responsibility if they are
abused.

16. Statistics on Domestic Abuse
Statistics
2million people in England ( 1.3 million
women/700000 men), experienced
domestic abuse

17. Summary
 Rational – making Merton a safer place for all
 Your role – first and foremost, to keep yourself safe, secondly help keep other safe, by;
 Using the tools in the toolkit –
Direct
indirect ( distraction/disruption)
Engage Allies
Defer to others
After the incident/the next day
 Keep an open mind – don’t prejudge
 Keep yourself safe

18. Why People Don’t We Report Hate
Crime?
 Embarrassment/ fear of being outed
 Exhausted and judged out of context. E.g. woman barrister Alexander
 Poor previous experience of reporting.
 Fear prejudicial response from police.
 Impact a counter allegation would have on visa or asylum decision.
 Some marginalised groups have limited avenues to safely report crime

19. What can you do to help ?
 Listen
 How often do you call meetings about an issue or do you brush it under the carpet
 Floyd impact – hurting/ pain an mental health issues
 Equality policies; are they clear and useful
 How many people under the protected characteristics do you have on your board
/leadership team , staff.
 Try and overcome fear and replace with love and concern for marginalised groups and it may
surprise you.

20. Question time

21. Useful local Contact
 Useful contact:
 Safer Merton: -
Merton Civic Centre, London Road,
Morden, Surrey SM4 5DX
Contact: Katy Saunders Tel: 020 8545 4146
info: safer.merton@merton.gov.uk
 Police online reporting site: www.met.police.uk and click ‘report it’ on the front page
 Merton ASB team: ASBU@merton.gov.uk Tel: 020 8274 4901
 Third Party Reporting Centres are;
 Inner Strength Network

22. THIRD PARTY REPORTING CONTACTS
• Inner Strength Network
Vestry Hall, 336 London Road, Mitcham, Surrey CR4 3UD
Contact: Maureen Bailey/ ( 07903737780) Lisa Oldfield ( 07716 788 791)
Tel: 020 8274 5200/ 07903737780/
Info: maureen@innerstrengthnetwork.com
Website: http://innerstrengthnetwork.com/
• MVSC (Merton Voluntary Service Council)
Vestry Hall, 336 London Road, Mitcham, Surrey CR4 3UD
Contact: Beau Fadahunsi
Tel: 020 8685 1771
Info: info@mvsc.co.uk
Website: https://www.mvsc.co.uk/
• Polish Family Association
66-72 Colliers Wood High Street, Colliers Wood SW19 2BY
Contact: Slawek Szczepanski
Tel: 07917 401 064
Info: info@polishfamily.org.uk
Website: https://www.polishfamily.org.uk/
• South London Tamil Welfare Group
36 High Street. Colliers Wood SW19 2AB
Contact: Shivaranjith Sivapragasam
Tel: 020 8542 3285
Info: admin@sltwg.org.uk
Website: http://www.sltwg.org.uk/

23.  Impact on covid for minorities
https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2020/oct/27/uk-covid-
19report-says-structural-racism-killing-minorities-2215758.html
Stop and search latest figures
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8884101/Police-carry-
highest-number-stop-searches-seven-years-new-figures-show.html

25. COVID HATE IMPACT
Belly Mujinga 47 spat at by a man at
Victoria station.
covid sufferer and she later died.