Safety message for schools

A new DVD and resource pack is helping to deliver the ‘Think Safe, Drink Safe‘ message to hundreds of young people across Carmarthenshire.
The Community Safety Partnership, together with the Carmarthenshire School Improvement Service and Healthy Schools scheme, has produced the educational pack to use with Year Eight secondary school pupils which directly links risky behaviour and the effects of alcohol.
The DVD was produced by students at Coleg Sir Gar’s Graig Campus in Llanelli who both starred in and directed it.
The pack includes lesson plans, question sheets and suggestions for individual and group exercises.
Community Safety Partnership chairman Mark James said: “Alcohol-related crime is a key priority for the partnership.
“A number of initiatives are underway in Carmarthenshire to raise awareness of the harmful effects of drinking, in particular amongst young people.
“We hope this resource pack will encourage young people to think about the dangers associated with drinking from the effects of alcohol on the body to the way in which it makes them behave.
“We want young people to enjoy themselves, but we also want them to think about their own personal safety and the safety of others.”
The Community Safety Partnership is made up of representatives from Carmarthenshire County Council, Dyfed-Powys Police, Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service, the Local Health Board, Probation Service and the Youth Offending and Prevention Service. It aims to tackle crime and disorder problems to create a safer place to live and work for residents and visitors.

CAPTION: Healthy schools co-ordinator Lynn Edwards, community safety manager Kate Thomas and QE High School year 8 pupils Jessica Botticelli and Leah Jones with the Think Safe Drink Safe DVD and resource pack.
Picture: Jeff Connell.

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