Safe Community Staffanstorp
Name of the Community: Staffanstorp
Country: Sweden
Number of inhabitants: 21,000
Programme started year: 2003
International Safe Communities Network Membership: Designation year: 2007
www.staffanstorp.se/primarnavigering/sakerhettrygghet.4.743d22f4115f53f498b800061517.html
Full application report available in English: Swedish
For further information contact:
Michael Marklund
Safety & security/Fire department
E-mail: michael.marklund@staffanstorp.se
Patrik Runesson
Municipality board
E-mail: patrik.runesson@staffanstorp.se
Liselott Jacobsson
Healthcare
E-mail: liselott.jacobsson@staffanstorp.se
Berit Reisdal
Safety & security/Fire department
E-mail: berit.reisdal@staffanstorp.se
Taina Ahola
Healthcare
E-mail: taina.ahola@staffanstorp.se
The programme covers the following safety promotion activities:
Children/Youth
* SET-education (Social and Emotional Training - ref; Birgitta Kimber, www.set.se)
This method is compulsory for all schools (grade 9 and gymnasium, both public and private). The purpose of the training is to, at an early stage, see children’s signs, notice behaviour and increase the understanding of environmental factors that make way for children to develop as favourably as possible. Cooperation between school, parents and children is of utter importance. Staffanstorps kommun works preventative with fundamental values in the schools and has committed to a tutor training, with the aim to train pupil’s social and emotional capacity.
* Grade 6 - parent project
has the aim to, at an early stage, make parents aware of the risks their children are exposed to and emphasize their role as role models and the importance of establishing boundaries for their children
* Family class – to become a better pupil
Families with children that need to become more responsible in their school efforts, and to function better theoretically and socially, are offered to participate in a family class. The project also helps parents to support their children in their school work.
* Cooperation between Staffanstorps Community and the parish of S:t Staffan, Church of
Sweden.
The project is an unusual forum for parents to candidates for confirmation. That means that a series of lectures is held with the intention to give parents better insight, knowledge and understanding about what influences the development their children.
* Theme weeks – Feel good
The purpose with the theme weeks is to support parents in their parenting. An example is a theme week named Feel good. They include topics such as food, physical training, safe cycling, bus safety and what to do when there is a fire. Theme weeks also include programmes for parents during evenings
* The Music school project for children with various emotional difficulties
To motivate and engage children and youth with emotional difficulties, Music school has run different trial projects where they have been encouraged to play an instrument, sing or in other ways give them a meaningful leisure activity.
* Attitude project associations
means that leaders in non-profit associations are given knowledge about and insight in the current situation in society and what they could do to stop negative trends and behaviour. The main thing is that the leaders’ message to the youth in the organisations is in consistency with law and regulations, and with the research and evidence in the field to minimize damages. The common attitude should be to give the youth a massage from a social standpoint rather than the opinion of the individual leader. All leaders in the association should take part in this development.
* Youth flats
is a strategic investment in youth and their living conditions by Staffanstorpshus AB. The purpose is to, on the basis of young people’s wishes and needs, design a housing where low costs and position is given priority.
* Leisure activity
in Staffanstorp operates to some extent in projects. The projects consist of distributing resources to a number of youth projects where the youth themselves are involved in the selection process. Each project has en external executor, such as associations, private person and other municipal units. Some projects also receive funding from other partners.
* A joint effort - Lions Club, Färs och Frosta Sparbank and Staffanstorps community
is a joint financing of a drug and crime preventing project, mainly run by the after-school centre, for example “Scooter school” and “Teckneria”.
* Safety certified city council servant
* Test purchase
Municipalities are responsible for the immediate control of the observance of the law about serving spirits, wine and beer and serving and retail sale of light beer and tobacco.
* Swimming training
Compulsory swimming training every week for children during two years; this is unique in Sweden. Thanks to this, 98% of the children in the schools in Staffanstorp know how to swim.
* ATLAS- care in the homes
a treatment programme in the home environment intended for children and youth aged 12 -18 years, where social difficulties are identified that involves a need of help and support.
* Programme to influence young criminals
is a programme intended for youth aged 15-21 years, who have a recorded, serious criminal behaviour, or who have been sentenced to care within the social service.
* Field assistance
is since 1986 a recorded long term preventative action taken in the municipal. The field assistants operate both on a community and group level, and on an individual level, which means it is partly structural, but mainly preventative (generally/primarily and specifically/secondarily) and to some extent treating
* Safety in schools and preschools
The prevention of damages is continuously implemented in the activities of the municipal. The work is pursued in a systematic manner so that identified risks, incidents and damages are reported in B4rm (software). Within the systematic lays responsibility to follow up and attend to the reports.
* Cooperation with the healthcare
The municipal group has produced a policy for MRSA and is presently running projects focusing on “overweight children” and “autism in children”. The possibility to run a “Family central” and start up a new way to work about psychiatric care is also being investigated.
Community staff
* Practical conflict management/Self protection training
is offered to exposed staff categories in the municipality. Three pilot trainings have been carried out with following sectors: Healthcare, Individual and family care, Sports facilities caretakers, children and education. According to the evaluations, more of this is needed and to all municipal staff in exposed sectors.
* Education in safety & security
Every year, we have regular and repeated education on safety for the municipal staff, such as road safety, fire and accident training and heart and lung rescue
* Theme days
for municipal staff who work with children and youth, focus on themes based on current risk and threat scenarios. The theme days intend to provide knowledge and realisations about how to prevent/limit consequences of damages by illuminating factors that concern child safety.
All citizens:
* Road safety
in the municipal is improved by continuous identification of traffic flow and is dealt with by Committee for Environmental and Community construction, the technical committee and the Analysis group.
* Watchman rounds
The Analysis group has opened a project together with the employers, Church of Sweden, the municipal real estate company, Skånetrafiken (the public transport company in the county) and housing and residential associations in Staffanstorps kommun. The purpose of Watchman rounds is to protect and eliminate damage on people and property.
* Surveillance cameras
* Growth 7 000
is a programme for growth in Staffanstorps kommun. The idea of the programme is that the inhabitants get a better chance to influence from the ground planning until completed houses. This increases the feeling of security for residents in the area. The ambition is to raise the population with 7000 inhabitants within 10-15 years. There is a specifically designed checklist, drawn up by a crossover team representing all branches of the municipal activities, to guarantee the quality of how safety is taken into consideration throughout the process.
* Risk assessment policy
A new strategy document about a safe Staffanstorp is under process, and is about to be established. It involves Staffanstorps kommun as a geographical area and will be a more dynamic tool for everyone who works with safety.
* Systematic safety work
* Emergency/Safety folder
* Social worker in the police force
There is a social worker in the police force in Staffanstorp so that individual needs could be understood at an early stage. The purpose is also to provide service and initiate adequate support and treatment. This post is a key contact between the police and IFO (individual and family care) within the social service.
Elderly 65+ years:
* The Staffanstorp model
is a coordination of all individual orientated efforts; municipal, church and voluntary ones. The aim is to with a focus on safety, improve quality of life for old people.
* Senior in the school
is a project with cross generational perspective. Society of today doesn’t offer spontaneous contacts between young and old people, which increase the gap between different generations.
* Preventive home visits
* Safer Seniors
is a training intended for elderly in Staffanstorps kommun, and includes: home safety, fire safety and personal safety. The course is run by the Civil Defence Association together with the municipality
* The handle
is a service to prevent accidents of falling over. The handle helps to hang curtains, put in new bulbs or other easy chores including climbing a chair or similar acrobatics.
* Information brochure to seniors
* Safety Living
is a way of living that means intensified service and quality of life to seniors and patients. The service is included in the rent. Intensified service is for example security alarm, fire alarm systems, stove guard, access to nursing and physical activity, and help with this and that, such as changing bulbs.
Disabled people
* Guardian training
Guardians are educated/informed on news in the municipal, routines to apply according to social law and social security system to guarantee the legal rights of their clients.
* Easily remedied obstacles
* Disability education
All grade four pupils (about ten years old) in the municipal, are offered education in disability knowledge. The purpose is to increase the understanding of people with disabilities and increase the knowledge about what it is like to live with a disability, and by this prevent bullying
* The Meeting Point
A part of the social psychiatric care is Träffpunkten (The Meeting Point), where the staff works to break patterns of isolation and create quality of life by activities, support and fellowship for the visitors.
Other vulnerable groups
* Directed efforts
There are specific efforts directed at immigrant groups with ethnical and cultural diversity, which means cooperation between representatives from the municipal, the police and the groups concerned. The work aims at finding different angles to break negative behaviour which generates feelings of insecurity among the inhabitants, and also to stop negative development within these groups.
* Housing support
There is an articulated will in Staffanstorp to stop homelessness. Therefore there is a programme for housing support, directed to poor people.
* Overall municipal plan of action against domestic violence
The purpose of the plan of action is to through collaboration between different authorities and organisations
• improve and increase the support for women who are suffering from violence
• improve and increase the support for children who witness violence
• offer treatment to men who use violence
• increase the knowledge about each others resources
• The short-term aim is to contribute to decrease violent crime against women in Staffanstorps kommun
• The long-term aim is to put an end to the violence
Staff
Number: 2 coordinators with support from The Central Risk Handling group
Professions: Fire protection engineer, Developer of methods of drug and crime prevention and are the coordinators but have a width of professions behind, par example; a public health planner.
Permanent: All the functions in the organisation are permanent
Organization: Se the outline of the organization
Specific intersectoral leadership group: The Central Risk Handling group
General public health/health promotion group:
Our work for a safe community is permeating the Public Health Work. With an interdisciplinary approach and a cross sector work procedure, we begin with factors that affect the human health, i.e. vital condition, living habits, surroundings and products. In our work we strive to secure and create good possibilities for a good health for our citizens under the same conditions. By actively using the competence of the Public Health Scientists, for instance in the Central Risk Handling Group, we strengthen and make sure that further development of Public Health work is implemented in the municipality.
International commitments:
Are boardermembers in NSSA (Nordic Safety and Security Academy) and
ECAD (European Cities Against Drugs).
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