This document provides an overview and objectives for a session on personal safety. It discusses reasons for public fear of crime despite low crime statistics, and identifies government and community actions that can reduce this fear such as increased policing and security measures. It also outlines situations and actions that can put personal safety and possessions at risk, and recommends a range of actions individuals can take to minimize these risks, such as considering consequences before acting and avoiding travel alone at night.

1. Understanding Wellbeing
Session 8: Personal Safety

2. Personal Safety Awareness
 State reason why individuals fear crime (1.1)
 Outline major facts provided by crime statistics which may
contribute to the fear of crime (1.2)
 Identify government and community actions which may reduce the
fear of crime (1.3)
 Identify situations and actions that may put personal safety and
possessions at risk (2.1, 2.2)
 Describe a range of actions that can minimise risk to personal safety
(3.1)
 Describe appropriate responses that can minimise risk to personal
possessions (3.2)
Week 8 Objectives

3. Quiz time
Look through some of the information I have provided
and work in pairs to create your own quiz consisting of
5 questions – Highlight where you found the
information, write your question down and create a
possible multiple choice answer.
Record the information well as it will be used for
additional evidence. Remember to include the correct
answers.
You will ask your questions to the other teams to see who
wins – There will be a prize!
Fear of Crime - Statistics

4. Low stats / High fear? (1.1)
If there is a relatively low risk of being a victim of a crime in the UK, why do people fear crime so
much?
Media reporting including: tabloids, tv documentaries, feature films etc
Experiences of crime: first-hand, anecdotal
Psychological tendency: are we predisposed to be suspicious and fearful?

5. Quantifying crime statistics is notoriously difficult and fraught with political bias. More often than
not the results are not accepted by the public as a true reflection of reality.
But where do the figures come from and what do they say is happening now?
Listen to this guy, and/or read the transcript:
1) Where do the stats come from?
2) What do the stats say?
3) Highlight 3 crime stats that could
support public fear of crime (do this
after watching the video)
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/crime-stats/crime-statistics/period-ending-march-2014/vid-crime-stats.html
Crime Statistics (1.2)

6. BREAK

7. So far we have seen that the public generally have a high level of fear associated with potential
crime. Governments and communities invest a great deal of money in a variety of crime prevention
methods.
But what are they?
Use your own knowledge and the internet to produce a list of at least 10 different actions that may
be taken.
Tackling crime (1.3)
Methods to reduce crime & fear of crime
Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) Lengthy sentences for violent crimes
Police & Communities Together meetings
(PACT)
Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements
(MAPPA)
Visible Police (& PCSO) patrols Targeted Police Operations (usually reported in
local media)
Community Payback (CS) Use of metal detectors (knife crime)
Custodial Establishments Increased street lighting

8. We use the words ‘risk’ and ‘risky’ on a regular basis. Risk is usually associated
with negatives, and as something to be avoided at all costs. But is there more to
‘risk’?
 Can risk be measured?
 Can caution be riskier than risk-taking?
 Is potential pleasure more important than potential harm?
Watch the following video featuring Professor David Spiegelhalter (aka.
Professor Risk). Note down any interesting or important information
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1PtQ67urG4
Using examples of when you have taken risk, complete the table on page 16.
Make sure at least one of your examples focuses on risk to your person, and at
least one example focuses on risk to personal possessions.
Risk – what is it? (2.1, 2.2)

9.  Hand in all completed units (including file)
 Keep Personal Safety unit with you – To complete
your homework
Workbooks

10. Describe (in sentences) 3 actions that could reduce risk to your
personal safety, and 3 actions that could reduce risk to your
personal possessions.
Examples;
HOMEWORK
Minimising risk (3.1, 32)
Personal Safety Personal Possessions
Consider consequences before acting Use a house alarm
Ask the advice of others Carry a card rather than cash
Avoid travelling alone at dark Don’t leave valuable items visible (car)
Avoid high levels of intoxication Get items insured

11. How to track additional evidence..
1. Group your additional evidence into the units ie. Stress, alcohol and so on
2. Number each piece of your additional evidence (AE)…
(1, 2, 3, 4 and so on)
3. Sign each piece of AE – this is for authenticity
4. If your evidence is just a print off, you need to include some writing to state why you are
adding it (how it meets criteria, what you have used it for)
5. Look at your trackers – Peach sheets, front of your workbook (You have one tracker per unit)
6. Look at your AE 1 and see which criteria it meets on the tracker – When you find which criteria
it meets, put a 1 in the third column (Next to the letters AE)
7. Move on to AE 2 and repeat.. carry on until complete
8. Make sure all AE is in the back of your file, in number order.