The Building Safer Communities Programme

Building a safer and stronger Scotland
 what's new
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Latest news/updates
BSC Bulletin August Issue Now available
National Strategic Assessment 2017
 Now Available!
Publications
National Strategic Assessment for Unintentional Harm : April 2017
Homicide in Scotland, 2014-15
2015 Scottish Household Survey: Results 
Scottish Criminal Justice Survey 2014 - 2015
Youth Justice Strategy, 2015-2020
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Latest blog posts
BSC Visit to the Risk Factory
RNLI 2017 Water Safety Campaign
My Version of Success
National Community Safety Convention
13th Meeting of BSC Board
Recent/upcoming events
Latest tweets

Summer Water Safety 2017
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about

Building Safer Communities is a collaborative programme which seeks to help national and local partners and communities work together to make Scotland safer and stronger
 Our Vision
Our vision is of a flourishing, optimistic Scotland in which resilient individuals, families and communities live safe from crime, disorder, danger and harm.
What does this look like?
Our Aims
Our Phase 1 aim is to reduce the number of victims of crime in Scotland by 250,000 by 2017-18.  Our Phase 2 aim is to reduce unintentional injury (amount tbc).
How are we doing this?
Our Approach
Our approach is to use improvement methodology to implement public service reform in a way that involves - and builds upon the strengths of - communities. 
Want to know more?
who's who

Building Safer Communities is managed by the Scottish Government but is not a traditional government programme.  It's a partnership between national and local agencies and communities and everyone has a role to play.

Programme Board

Our Board's role is to champion the programme's aims by promoting the programme in their own organisations and with key partners and stakeholders; and to provide direction, scrutiny, challenge and support across all aspects of programme delivery. Each board member is a champion for a specific theme or place.

▼ Our Programme Board members ▼

Community Champions

We are lucky to be working with some inspirational and talented people. Our community champions are role models and mentors who support and inspire others.

Advisory Group

We take advice from an Advisory Group of over 50 expert practitioners from a range of different disciplines, operating all across Scotland.

Learning Network

We host regular learning events to facilitate the sharing of good practice, including on place-based work and asset based approaches.  

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Programme Team

Meet the team in the Scottish Government's Community Safety Unit who run the BSC Programme Office, and access their contact details.
resources
One of the key roles of the Programme is to support innovation and facilitate the sharing of good practice. Here's a range of resources we hope will help with this. If you have something to share, please get in touch.
Case studies
Our case studies cover Total Place, community engagement, local scrutiny, tasking and coordinating, and more!
Meeting notes
If you're looking for minutes from our board, learning network or advisory group meetings, look no further.
Evidence
This is where you will find a range of statistics and research evidence to help inform national and local practice.
Publications
This is where we collect together interesting publications relevant to building safer communities.
Guidance
Access our 10 Safer Communities Programme guidance modules and a range of other useful guidance.
Toolkits
These practical toolkits will help local service providers to identify, test and deliver local improvements with communities.
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contact us

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Community Safety Unit
1W St Andrew's House 
Regent Road, Edinburgh, EH1 3DG
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