Resources include:
- Introducing Citizenship: a practical handbook for primary schools (produced by the Citizenship Foundation; includes storybooks dealing with issues of ownership, honesty and friendship)
- school police liaison officers, who may have a range of introductory materials and related activities on the work of police officers and their various roles and responsibilities. These officers may also be called school contact officers, youth issues and drug officers or school involvement officers. The local police website (every county has one) may also have details of activities the police undertake on behalf of children and the community, including information on the ways in which the police can support education
- Superhighway Safety from Becta. See the Becta website
- local authority websites, which have information about the Community Safety Plan, including the Crime and Disorder Strategy and Neighbourhood Watch
- useful websites, eg
- www.homeoffice.gov.uk (includes general information about the police, community policy and crime prevention)
- www.rospa.org.uk (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents; includes information on different aspects of safety education)
- www.crimeconcern.org.uk (provides details of publications and initiatives for schools, including Primary Action, part of Youth Action Plus)
- www.crimestoppers-uk.org (includes information about regional initiatives that involve communities taking responsibility for the prevention of crimes)
- www.neighbourhoodwatch.uk.com (Neighbourhood Watch)
NB: care should be taken when encouraging children to access websites
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