This page aims to promote personal safety and security in the home. Hopefully it will help you to feel more confident in your own home and local community and the links below will help you find help and advice or suggest things you can do for yourself.
Consumer Direct
This is a government funded site offering advice on various consumer issues, now includes Energy and Post.
Be Smart Be Safe
These are factsheets that aim to promote personal safety, security, health and wellbeing. Hopefully they will help you to feel more confident in your own home and local community. They are organised under three main headings with contact details at the end of each sheet
Crime reduction
Advice Now
This links to a page about personal and home security.
Unwelcome visitors
This links to the Be Smart Be Safe fact sheet.
Crime prevention for older people - Age Concern Factsheet 33
This contains simple precautions which can be taken for protection both inside and outside the home. It also covers bogus callers, mass marketing scams and identity theft.
Immobiliise
This can be used by members of the public and businesses to register their valued possessions or company assets and is used by all the UK Police forces to trace owners of lost and stolen property.
Handyvan scheme
This covers Chelmsford, Epping, Southend and a partnership scheme in Tendring. Fitters work to help ensure that homes are free from the risk of burglary, fitting security equipment such as door chains, viewers, window locks and installing safety features such as smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.
Noise and neighbour nuisance - Age Concern factsheet 9
This provides information on how to resolve disputes with neighbours and what to do in case of noise nuisance or harassment. Covers local authority powers to deal with anti social behaviour, when to involve police, taking legal action, common problems and who to contact.
Nuisance neighbours
This is a link to Be Smart Be Safe fact sheet
Safety
This is general advice from Essex Police on how to be more safety aware in various situations - at the shops, in the car, in the home and on public transport
Getting out
This is a
link to the Be Smart Be Safe fact sheet
Trading Standards Central
This is a one stop shop for consumer protection information in the UK.
Your security - Help the Aged
This is an
advice sheet on personal safety at home and in the street
Safety in the home
ASK Sal
This is designed to offer support to anybody concerned about an adult who is being treated badly, taken advantage of, or injured.
Essex County Fire and Rescue
This provides guidance for workplace and home fire safety, and the latest news and incidents in your area. To be involved yourself visit an open day at your local station.
Essex Police
This provides information on how to contact the police in an emergency or non emergency. Also visit the website for your neighbourhood policing team, and current campaigns in your area.
Fire safety - Fire Kills
This is a government information pages on how to protect yourself and your home.
Fire, electricity and gas
This links to the Be Smart Be Safe fact sheet
Home Improvement Agencies
This links to the local district council/borough list on ECC site to find out about local HIAs which will do home safety checks and install equipment to make homes safer.
Preparing for emergencies
This is general advice about what to do in an emergency; advice about specific types of emergency; preparations to make dealing with an emergency easier; advice on how schools and businesses handle emergencies; basic first aid advice; and details of where to find more advice.
Safe in your garden
This links to the Be Smart Be Safe fact sheet
Road safety
Road safety
This provides news of the latest campaigns and road safety advice to keep everyone safer on the UK's roads. Leaflets, factsheets and posters to download for more information and links to other useful sites.
