Tag: Protecting Vulnerable People
Response to the EPI Report on Unexplained Pupil Exits
The Education Policy Institute (EPI) have today, Friday, 10 October) published their Unexplained pupil exits from schools report. Dr Alan Billings, South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner said: “The EPI report on unexplained pupil exists makes
PROJECT NOVA
In South Yorkshire there are 72,387 veterans – men and women who have spent time in the armed forces. Between them, they have 24,584 dependent children.
VULNERABILITY AND CRIME
In 1900 you would be lucky if you lived to see your sixtieth birthday. Today, we would feel cheated if we didn’t enjoy a long retirement. But there is a downside to living longer and it is becoming a growing issue for the police as well as other public
PREDICTING CRIME
You might think that it is no more possible to predict crime than the weather. You may be right.On the other hand we do try to predict the weather. We want to know the forecast before we set off for a picnic on the moors without a coat.
CHILDREN’S COMMISSIONER ANNUAL STUDY OF CHILDHOOD VULNERABILITY
"The Children’s Commissioner has drawn national attention to the growing issue of child criminal exploitation (CCE) and has noted similarities with child sexual exploitation (CSE).
LAUNCH OF THE SHEFFIELD DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ABUSE STRATEGY
Dr Billings spoke at an event in Sheffield Town Hall on Monday, 26 October at which the Sheffield Domestic and Sexual Abuse Strategy was launched.
SPONSORSHIP OF LOCAL AWARDS
Dr Alan Billings attended the Proud of Barnsley Awards at the Metrodome on Friday, 16 November 2018.
FLOATING REGIONAL COLPOSCOPE FUNDED BY YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER’S PCCS
Yorkshire and the Humber is the first region in the country to procure its own floating colposcope to be available to victims of sexual abuse in the region’s Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs).
POLICING AND PREDICTION
If you watch daytime television you may be familiar with the crime series Endeavour, which is about the fictional Inspector Morse as a young detective constable.
BALANCE AND BELIEF
Recently, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Cressida Dick, said she had told officers they must have an open mind when an allegation of sexual assault is made and that their role was to investigate, not 'blindly believe'.
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT
The history of our country and slavery is mixed. On the one hand, from the sixteenth century, we were one of the great slave nations, exchanging our manufactures for captive Africans and conveying them to slave plantations in the Americas and Caribbean.
FINDING A SAFE PLACE TO STAY
Some years ago, when I was a vicar in the Lake District, I chaired a small committee that ran a women's hostel in a big Victorian villa. After the Second World War the house had been a home for unmarried mothers.