Over 3000 women and girls took part in the Safer Ealing for Women listening exercise, sharing their thoughts and experiences of living
in Ealing.
These commitments are just the first steps that will be taken by the Safer Ealing Partnership, tackling inequality, challenging misogyny, and making Ealing a fair and inclusive place, where everyone is welcome.
CCTV
66% of women highlighted CCTV will make them feel safer.
- Install 14 new HD CCTV cameras in key locations
- Install signage of QR code for the Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) website
Street lighting
93% of women reported that improved lighting will make them feel safer.
- Increase street lighting on all residential roads by the end of October 2022
- Invest £2.1million in upgrading all remaining streetlighting
- Upgrade 3,1000 street light columns to LED and explore installing motion sensors to increase ‘on demand’ lighting in key locations
Reporting
90% of women did not know where to get help in response to unacceptable attitudes or unwanted sexual behaviour.
- Launch a ‘one stop shop’ website dedicated to VAWG:
- Providing information on reporting
- Link to StreetSafe App
- Providing access to support
- Install signage with QR code for the VAWG website
- Create and distribute leaflets that publicise VAWG organisations
Education
Key to improving behaviour and attitudes towards women.
- Launch a £40k education program that will be offered to every secondary school, looking at healthy relationships and giving young people the tools to identify and challenge unacceptable behaviours
- Extend workshops on healthy relationships and challenging unacceptable behaviours across community groups / practitioner SPOC training
Police commitments
58% said they were dissatisfied with their experience reporting to an authority.
- Promote public use of StreetSafe to inform decision-making on police patrols
- Deliver at least 12 Walk & Talk events in the next 12 months
- Deliver at least four community engagement events over the next 12 months and engage with communities that hold lower levels of confidence in the police
- All female victims of unwanted sexual attention, which results in the recording of a crime will have follow up contact by an officer