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Community Safety: LIVING FREE OF FEAR In 2012, Access Dorset surveyed our members about their experience of ‘Fear and Bullying in Dorset’ and 40% of the 101 respondents reported that they had been frightened or hurt by another person because of their disability or age. Unfortunately this was not a rare phenomenon. Disability hate crime, although drastically under reported, happens far too often. The results of the survey were reported by the local media and reinforced the need for a project led by disabled and older people to raise awareness and provide on-going support around these issues of Community Safety. With the support of Lloyds Bank Foundation, we established a project in 2014 to recruit, train and support volunteers to act as Community Safety Champions to provide direct support to other disabled/older people as well as providing information and advice that promotes Community Safety both at home and whilst out and about. This project culminated in an interactive workshop in early summer 2016 entitled “I 4 PAGE
AM ME” which was based on highly praised training material developed by Police Scotland in partnership with their local community organisations to raise awareness of disability hate crime in Scotland. The well attended workshop focused on identifying the reasons why so many people don’t report disability hate crime incidents and looked at ways to encourage reporting and support victims through the process. A number of films made by Community Safety Champions over the last two years were shown and participants discussed their own experiences and how they had dealt with them. TOOL KIT ACCESS DORSET <strong>MAGAZINE</strong> To complement the workshop we produced a Tool Kit: “Supporting people experiencing Hate Crime” which is an easy to use guide explaining what defines a hate crime and offering tips on how to support people who experience it, including details of Third Party Reporting The Hate Crime Tool Kit can be downloaded from the Community Safety page of Access Dorset or contact 01202 771336 for a copy. Centres like Access Dorset who can report incidents to the Police on other people’s behalf. Participants pledged to keep on raising awareness of the issues by joining the ranks of our Community Safety Champions. They will support their peers to feel safer, more confident, better understood, better connected with one another and the wider community. Access Dorset is a member of Prejudice Free Dorset which is a partnership organisation that promotes inclusive communities across Dorset. Its focus is to tackle hate crime which targets people because of prejudice towards that person’s race, religion or belief, disability, sexual orientation or transgender identity. Hate crime can take many forms, including verbal abuse, physical assault, domestic abuse, harassment and damage to property. Hatred not only has the potential to cause serious physical and emotional harm, it damages communities and undermines the diversity and cohesion we should instead be celebrating. PAGE 5
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