This page features materials supporting a range of activities aimed providing guidance to emergency services professionals in their dealings with the public.
Ageing Safely
- Ageing Safely - Protecting an Ageing Population from the Risk of Fire in the Home - National Older Persons Strategy pdf
- Ageing Safely Living Well Framework pdf
- Dementia-friendly emergency services
Preventing Fire, Protecting Health
- Person Centred Approach to Fire Risk Assessment powerpoint presentation
Safe & Well
- Safe & Well induction powerpoint presentation
- Principles for a ‘Safe and Well’ visit by a Fire and Rescue Service pdf
Other guidance
- Everyday Interactions: measuring the public health impact of healthcare professionals pdf report and toolkit (June 2017)
- Improving information sharing between police and health services pdfs and videos
- Working Together - how health, social care and fire and rescue services can increase their reach, scale and impact through joint working pdf (24 June 2016)
Serious Violence Prevention
- Preventing Serious Violence: a multi-agency approach
- Serious Violence Strategy
- Approaches to prevent or reduce violence with a focus on youth knife and gang-related violence
- Collaborative approaches to preventing offending and reoffending by children
Police – Guidance, tools and training
The following 31 minute video was produced to be used for the Police Constable Degree Apprentice or Degree (PCDA) course. It explains all about the South Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit, The Public Health Approach and Trauma Informed Approach.
The South Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit,
The Public Health Approach
Trauma Informed Practice
Neurodiversity and the Criminal Justice System
Public Health Approach training – this continued professional development video provides an understanding of the Public Health Approach
Trauma Informed Practice in Policing – this video talks through understanding a trauma informed approach and implementing it into policing by embedding it into health and wellbeing at work. All of this contributes to the work being done to prevent and reduce violence
Please get in touch with Samantha Mawson, Communications Manager, South Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit by emailing [email protected]
