Hello everyone, my name's Miss Wyatt and I'm so glad that you could join us today for our lesson.

Welcome to today's lesson on what does a successful crime prevention strategy look like from the unit, "What Is Crime?" By the end of the lesson, you will be able to explain the key elements of an effective crime prevention strategy and assess real life examples to determine their success.

We have some ground rules in our lesson today due to the sensitivity of it and I'm hoping that you will be able to follow along with these.

Laura says, "One of our grounds rules is to listen to others.

It is okay to disagree with each other, but we should listen properly before making assumptions or deciding how to respond.

When disagreeing, challenge the statement, not the person." So what Laura is saying in simple terms is that you might not agree with what somebody's saying, but it's really important to show respect and listen to them.

The next ground rule comes from Andeep who says, "We should respect privacy.

So we can discuss examples, but we don't use names or descriptions that identify anyone, including ourselves." So in simple terms, we can talk about perhaps experiences that we've been through or experiences that we know other people have been through, but we need to respect our privacy and their privacy as well.

Jacob says, "No judgement.

We can explore beliefs and misunderstandings about a topic without the fear of being judged." And then Izzy says, "Choose level of participation.

Everyone has the right to choose not to answer a question or join discussion.

We never put anyone on the spot." So please don't feel pressure with this lesson.

There are parts of the lesson which are sensitive, but if you don't want to join in or you don't want to answer the question, please don't feel pressured to do so.

I'm hoping you can follow our ground rules and we'll have a brilliant lesson together.

We have some keywords that we will be using throughout the lesson, and some of these may be new to you, but that's okay, because we will frequently use them.

We have crime prevention strategy and crime.

So a crime prevention strategy is a plan or set of actions designed to reduce the likelihood of crime occurring.

And crime is an illegal act that is punishable by law.

So it's not allowed and it goes against the law.

Our lesson is broken in two parts today.

The first part is, what makes a crime prevention strategy successful? And the second part, we will look at a case study, which is the Ben Kinsella Trust.

We're going to start with the first part of the lesson, which is what makes a crime prevention strategy successful? A crime prevention strategy is a plan or set of actions which are designed to reduce the likelihood of crimes occurring.

There are lots of different strategies that can be used to prevent crime.

For example, educational, situational and deterrents.

So these are all different crime prevention strategies and they work in different ways.

So these are some of the examples of crime prevention strategies.

So educational, they will use public awareness campaigns of crime or the consequences of crime for example.

Youth mentoring programmes, workshops on the law.

So they might come into your school, you might have police officers visit at your school as well.

Then we have situational crime prevention strategies.

So you might put increased CCTV in an area, you might have CCTV in a shop.

We have more speed cameras to stop people speeding and improve street lighting to keep people safe and seen.

And then we have deterrents.

So there might be an increased and visible police presence on our streets or in our local communities.

There are harsh penalties or punishments for crimes and they publicise criminal conviction.

So there are just some examples of these different crime prevention strategies.

So let's check our understanding.

Which of these are examples of deterrent crime prevention strategies? Is it A, workshops? Is it B, increased police presence or is it C, better street lighting or D, harsher penalties? Read the question again.

We're looking for deterrent crime prevention strategies.

Pause the video, read through the options and make your decision.

Hopefully we've picked out B and D.

So increased police presence on our streets perhaps and harsher penalties for crime are examples of deterrent crime prevention strategies.

Well done if you managed to spot them.

Izzy says, "These are all crime prevention strategies.

However, workshops are an educational strategy and better lighting is a situational strategy." Thank you, Izzy.

How can we tell if a crime prevention strategy is successful? What might a successful crime prevention strategy look like? There's two different questions there.

How do we, how can we tell it's worked and what might it look like when it has worked? So this is a diagram about how you might start to plan and then carry out your successful active citizenship project.

So actually, it's not all that different to a successful active citizenship project, because it should be well planned, it should be well implemented and it should be clearly measured.

So as you can see on the image on the screen, there are seven steps to an active citizenship project.

So step one, you choose your issue.

Step two, research possible actions.

Step three, decide on your actions.

Step four, decide how to measure success.

Step five, plan and get ready.

The next part is where you take action.

So step six, put your plan into action and then step seven is time to reflect, evaluate and report on your story.

So in citizenship, we want to try and be active citizens and help make change and plan and implement action, and this is one way to do it.

Izzy says, "My local council is running a crime prevention strategy, called, "Prevention through design."" It's well planned.

It aims to change the local environment to reduce crime opportunities.

They have been researching different actions, such as improving lighting, for example, installing brighter, energy efficient streetlights, maintaining clear sight lines, for example, removing large bushes and fences that obstruct views in parks and alleyways so people can see a lot more.

And designing public spaces that encourage natural surveillance, for example, creating open areas where people can easily see and interact with each other.

And community involvement, organising neighbourhood watch patrols where the community comes together.

So it's well implemented.

In order to put their plans into action, it's important that the local council work collaboratively.

So that means together.

For example, the local council is working with local residents to identify the darkest areas in their neighbourhoods, ensuring lighting is placed where it is most needed and fits the community's needs.

Local businesses are involved in funding or maintaining green spaces, parks and public seating areas, creating a shared responsibility for safety and aesthetics.

So it's not just down to the council.

And the police are providing training, resources and support for local residents involved in the neighbourhood watch programmes.

So in order to put their plans into action, it's important that they all work together.

It's clearly measured.

Well, during planning, the local council, police, local businesses and local residents decided how they would measure if the crime prevention strategy was working.

They decided to measure success by tracking crime rates in areas before and after changes, resident feedback on safety improvements.

So in a active citizenship project or a crime prevention strategy as well, they will have to measure that success.

So how they've measured success is they have looked at how it was before and after with the crime rates and they have asked the residents, the local residents, to give feedback on their improvements.

What do they feel about it? Jacob says, "That sounds really effective, Izzy.

In my local area, there is a new youth engagement crime prevention strategy being started." It's well planned.

After some public consultation, it was decided that the programme would offer education, mentorship and recreational activities for at-risk young people and their families.

It's well implemented.

By regular activities like sports or tutoring are led by trained staff to engage youth and provide alternatives to crime.

And it's clearly measured.

Success is tracked through reduced youth crime rates, improved school attendance and participant feedback.

So I would like us to have a go at filling in the missing words.

So we have a successful crime prevention strategy is blank, blank and another blank.

This means it is carefully thought out, put into action effectively and its blank is measured through evaluations, such as crime statistics or community feedback.

So we need to find the missing words.

We need to think back to what we said.

So pause the video, read back through what is there already and try and think what are the missing words.

Okay, so the first missing part is a successful crime prevention strategy is well planned, well implemented and clearly measured.

Well done if you got those correct.

It wasn't an easy task.

It then goes on to say, "This means it's carefully thought out, put into action effectively and its something, which is success, is measured through evaluations, such as crime statistics or community feedback." Well then if you got all of those correct.

Jun says, "There has been an increase in bike thefts in my local town." So that means people's bikes are being stolen.

What I would like us to do is create a crime prevention strategy plan to tackle that issue.

Remember, it should be well planned, well implemented and clearly measured.

Summarise your plan using the following sentence starters.

So start with my crime prevention strategy aims to, then tell us the aim.

What do you plan to do? So I plan to.

I will implement this plan by, how will you do it? And I will measure success by.

So remember, it needs to be clearly measured.

So think back to Jun's problem.

He says, "There's been an increase in bike thefts in my local town." Let's create a plan to create that crime prevention strategy.

Use the sentence starters and enjoy.

Okay, well done, everybody, great efforts.

So your plan might have looked something like this.

Don't worry if your answers aren't in there, we all have our own individual ideas.

So we might have said, "My crime prevention strategy aims to reduce bike thefts in Jun's town by making bikes more visible and harder to steal.

I want to get the whole community involved, including local businesses, schools and the police.

I plan to organise bike safety workshops in schools and community centres.

These workshops will teach people how to secure their bikes properly with strong locks and where to park them safely.

I will implement this plan by partnering with local schools and community centres to organise and promote the bike safety workshops, contacting local police to support with the workshops and provide tips on crime prevention and reporting suspicious activity and using social media and local events to spread the word and encourage community participation.

Finally, I will measure the success by tracking the number of workshop participants, collecting feedback from attendees and surveying local businesses and residents on their perceptions of bike theft and their confidence in bike security." So I wonder if you put any of what our plan included.

If you did, excellent, and if you didn't, please don't worry, because we all have our own ideas.

We have now looked at the question, what makes a crime prevention strategy successful and explored the ideas around that.

The last part of the lesson, we're going to look at the case study of the Ben Kinsella Trust.

You may have heard of this charity before.

This is the Ben Kinsella Trust, which is a knife crime prevention charity.

The charity was set up following the death of 16-year-old Ben Kinsella in June, 2008.

Ben had been out at a local pub to celebrate the end of his GCSEs with his friends.

On their way home, they realised they were being followed by three older teenagers.

The older teenagers chased after them seeking revenge for an altercation in the pub that had taken place earlier that evening, an altercation that had nothing to do with Ben or his friends.

When the older boys caught up with Ben, they attacked him.

Ben was the 17th teenager to be killed in London that year.

So this was a malicious attack on Ben Kinsella and he died after finishing his GCSEs for absolutely no reason.

Now, if we come back to our active citizenship project planning, we look at the Ben Kinsella Trust and we can see that they are well planned with how they want to take action.

Ben Kinsella Trust have a vision for a society free of knife crime.

They look to achieve this vision by educating young people, working collaboratively and campaigning for action and justice.

So this is what they plan to do, this is their vision.

How does the Ben Kinsella Trust aim to achieve its vision of a society free of knife crime? What do they do out of the following options? Pause the video and make your decision.

We should have said the Ben Kinsella trust aims to achieve its vision by educating young people, working collaboratively and campaigning for action and justice.

The Ben Kinsella Trust is well implemented through education.

So they educate, their workshops use immersive experiences to show how choices and consequences are linked.

They challenge the myth that carrying a knife offers protection and help young people support each other in making safer choices.

There is an idea with some people, isn't there, that if you carry a knife, you're safe, but it's a myth, and the Ben Kinsella Trust is there to prove that it's a myth.

That also not only just proves it's a myth, but also then goes on to protect and help young people.

They collaborate with young people, the government and others to tackle this issue together.

Their resources help parents, carers and practitioners support young people on the sensitive topic.

So they work together with a lot of people, like the government and local residents as well.

The campaign, their award-winning campaigns challenge governments, businesses and society to take responsibility and drive change.

The next step is well measured.

So when you consider if a crime prevention strategy is successful or not, you have to investigate what has happened as a result of the actions taken.

Now, the Ben Kinsella Trust did this and found that 73% who considered carrying a knife, pledged never to carry one following attending a workshop.

That's a huge number of people.

82% of young people would recommend the workshop to their friends.

So they would suggest having a go.

And 89% of attendees pledged to never carry a knife following the workshop.

So it was very successful, as there was high rates of people saying, "I don't ever wanna carry a knife again after this." True or false? Following a Ben Kinsella Trust workshop, 89% of attendees pledged to never carry a knife.

Was it 89%, is that true or is it false? It is true.

It's true, because 89% of attendees pledged never to carry a knife following attendance at a Ben Kinsella Trust workshop.

73% who consider carrying a knife pledged to never carry one following the workshop.

Well done if you got that correct.

Ben's law.

The Ben Kinsella Trust efforts helped to actually change the law.

In 2010, they lobbied the government to make the sentencing for knife related murders more serious, raising the mandatory life sentence from 15 to 25 years.

This became known as Ben's law.

So this charity and their efforts helped that much that they actually changed the law.

Let's check our understanding.

In 2010, the Ben Kinsella Trust lobbied the government to change the law, raising the mandatory life sentence for knife related murders from how many years to what years? Was it 10 to 20? Was it 20 to 30 or was it 15 to 25? Pause the video and try and remember how many years.

Okay, hopefully we all said C, 15 to 25.

So it went from being 15 years to actually 25 years as a life sentence.

Well done if you remembered that.

What I would like us to do now is to have a go at writing a short evaluation to consider how successful the Ben Kinsella Trust has been in their crime prevention strategy.

I would like you to consider the following things in your answer.

So what were they trying to achieve? Was it well planned? How was it well implemented, what did they do? And how was it well measured? What change did they make? Can you try and remember some statistics? Can you remember how many years a life sentence went to? So a short evaluation to consider how successful the Ben Kinsella Trust have been in their crime prevention strategy.

Pause the video and have a go.

Excellent efforts, everyone.

So you might have said some of the following or you might have thought of your own answers as well.

So the Ben Kinsella Trust has been very successful in its crime prevention strategy, aiming to reduce knife crime and educate young people about the danger of carrying knives.

Their action includes running immersive workshops that show the consequences of carrying knives and challenge the myth that knives offer protection.

The workshops have been impactful with 89% of participants pledging never to carry a knife and 73% of those who considered carrying one, decided against it.

In addition, the trust works with young people, the government and other organisations to tackle knife crime together.

They have also successfully lobbied the government into raising the mandatory life sentence for knife related murders from 15 to 25 years.

These actions have made a real difference by changing attitudes, empowering communities and influencing the law.

Overall, the Ben Kinsella Trust crime prevention strategy has been highly effective in both educating young people and creating long-lasting change.

So we mentioned lots of the statistics.

We said how they were well planned, well implemented and clearly measured.

Hopefully you managed to tick off those three things as well.

We have come to the end of our lesson on what does a successful crime prevention strategy look like? I'm just gonna take a minute to summarise what we have learned today.

A crime prevention strategy is a plan designed to reduce crime using methods like education, situational changes and deterrents.

A successful crime prevention strategy, like an effective active citizenship project, should have a clear aim, be well planned, well implemented and clearly measured.

The Ben Kinsella Trust is an example of an organisation who run a successful crime prevention strategy.

Their aim of a society free from knife crime is achieved by their methods, educating young people, collaborating with others and campaigning for justice.

Their actions have changed attitudes, empowered communities and influenced the law on knife crime.

Today's lesson has been looking at some sensitive topics.

Hopefully you have managed to deal with the ground rules appropriately and I would like to thank you for your efforts and the maturity to deal with this sort of lesson and look forward to seeing you in the next one.

Bye-bye.