This website has been created to provide professionals who work with children, young people, parents and carers in Brighton & Hove with a brief introduction to the various crime and safety issues which can affect the lives of children and young people in the city.

The website aims to empower professionals with advice, information, knowledge and skills which will allow you to help improve the safety and reduce the risks to children. The content has therefore been developed to provide assistance to professionals when engaging with children, young people or parents/carers to look at the various safety implications involved in their lives.

The overall aim is that through empowering all who come into contact with children and young people we can all become more confident in tackling safety and crime concerns: To equip and supply professionals with the ability, freedom and power to help reduce risks and increase safety. Subsequently, providing information and education is an important part of helping to protect children and enable them to look out for risks and things which are unsafe or may cause them harm.

The two key concepts and messages interwoven within the websites are:

1) That if anything happens to children or young people, if someone causes them pain or hurts them, it is never their fault! Even if it doesn't seem like it, there is always someone they can turn to.

2) Children and young people should always report any crime they have experienced to the Police.

In addition, the ethos and guiding principles of protective behaviours have also been interwoven within the content of the website. These have been included in order to try and build children, young people, parents and carers understanding of safety and risk taking and how these relate to their lives.

The content on this site, including advice, data and other information, has been compiled by the Partnership Community Safety Team and in consultation with key specialist services in the city. Whilst every effort has been taken by Brighton and Hove City Council and the Partnership Community Safety Team to make this website as comprehensive and accurate as possible, no liability is assumed for any errors or omissions.

Brighton & Hove City Council and the Partnership Community Safety Team assume no responsibility or liability for any injury, loss or damage incurred as a result of any use or reliance upon the information and material contained within or downloaded from this website.

Links to third party websites outside Brighton & Hove City Council and the Safezone website are provided for the convenience of users only. Brighton & Hove City Council is unable to provide any warranty concerning the accuracy or completeness of any information held within these third party websites - this is the responsibility of the publisher of the third party website. Furthermore, by linking to other websites, Brighton & Hove City Council in no way endorses the views or information held within such websites and is unable to grant permission to use material found on such sites. We cannot guarantee that the links will be operational at all times and have no control over the availability of the linked pages. The Partnership reserves the right to reject or remove links to any site whose content is found to be inappropriate.