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Neighbourhood Apprentices Building Community
Capacity in Tackling Crime Shaun
Wheelan Crime Concern
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Norwich Union Neighbourhood Safety Apprenticeship
Scheme

• National pilot programme, sponsored by Norwich
  Union
• Recruitment of people living within
  neighbourhoods or estates experiencing high
  levels of crime
• Provision of one year employment to provide
  accredited training and practical work experience
  in neighbourhood based community safety work
• Pilot located in Chester (neighbourhood
  management pathfinder), Birmingham (Safer
  Neighbourhood Project) and Hackney (x2 in
  Community Safety Team)

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The Approach

• Do not have enforcement role
• Are not supercaretakers
• Role specifically focused on linkages between
  community and agencies
• Will take a community development approach
• - liaison needs assessment supporting
  development of community driven interventions
• Managed on day to day basis through local
  neighbourhood based projects, but employed by
  Crime Concern.

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The Job

• Involves two discrete elements training and
  practical work experience
• Four modules of training accredited to NVQ Level
  2 standard The neighbourhood safety approach
  community development approaches to community
  consultation project management skills.
• Day to day experience of working in
  community-based project, but also with specific
  responsibility for the development and
  implementation of a specific project during
  quarter four of employment.

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Why this approach?

• Derives from Neighbourhood Safety Programme which
  proactively seeks to engage local people in the
  development and delivery of community safety
  interventions
• Increasingly apparent that volunteers were
  finding difficulty in breaking in to paid
  employment despite good experience in community
  sector
• The scheme seeks to provide consolidation of
  community sector experience as well as evidence
  of competence via the accredited training
  programme.

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Projected Outcomes

• Pilot cited in areas where good evidence exists
  that the individual trainees will be well
  positioned to acquire local employment within
  community development/safety field (ie,
  neighbourhood management, NRF)
• Anticipated that locally acquired skills and
  experience will be maintained within area after
  the initial pilot
• Alternatively to enter into further
  education/training in e.g. community development,
  youth work, community safety
• Underpinned by a structured exit strategy
  negotiated with individual trainees during last
  quarter of initial employment.

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Contact details..

• Shaun Whelan
• 0115 950 5550
• or
• shaun.whelan_at_crimeconcern.org.uk