Communicating Crime Reduction

Children and young people in the community

Making schools and young people part of your partnership

Crime and disorder are not new issues for schools. All schools will experience a degree of crime, ranging to bullying and theft amongst pupils, to more serious disorder and robberies. School property, such as IT equipment, is often valuable and portable. Like any public building with relatively wide public access, schools are vulnerable to burglaries and can benefit form crime prevention advice. Schools have a responsibility to protect their pupils from crime and parents are inevitably concerned to ensure their children are being properly cared for.  

This shared concern for crime reduction and safety, therefore offers an opportunity to link the management, responsibilities and good practice needed to maintain school safety, with the need to ensure that children's knowledge and awareness of crime risk and crime prevention can be taken into the home. 

We know that young people are responsible for a significant proportion of crimes – we also know that they have a statistically high risk of being victims of crime. Schools can also be a source of nuisance and disorder which can cause concern and alarm in the wider community.  

It is therefore essential to include schools and their pupils as part of your local partnership, and to involve them in the development of your local strategy for reducing crime and disorder.  

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