{"id":16105,"date":"2025-10-06T16:29:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T15:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/?page_id=16105"},"modified":"2025-12-02T10:04:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T10:04:57","slug":"keeping-your-child-safe-in-the-community","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/?page_id=16105","title":{"rendered":"KEEPING YOUR CHILD SAFE IN THE COMMUNITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To keep your child safe in the community, maintain clear communication about potential dangers, establish clear rules for interacting with strangers and public spaces, and ensure they know how to get help from a trusted adult or a safe place if they get separated or feel unsafe.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><u>Robbery crime prevention information from the Metropolitan Police<\/u><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Robbery-Crime-Prevention-Leaflet-Schools-OCT-2025-V2.pdf\">Robbery Crime Prevention Leaflet<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><u>County Lines<\/u><\/p>\n<p>County Lines is where illegal drugs are transported from one area to another, often across police and local authority boundaries (although not exclusively), usually by children or vulnerable people who are coerced into it by gangs. The \u2018County Line\u2019 is the mobile phone line used to take the orders of drugs. Importing areas (areas where the drugs are taken to) are reporting increased levels of violence and weapons-related crimes as a result of this trend.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Drugs and Gang Culture please visit County Lines on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fearless.org\/en\/campaigns\/county-lines\">https:\/\/www.fearless.org\/en\/campaigns\/county-lines<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><u>Knife Crime<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Knife crime\u2019 is simply any crime that involves a knife.\u00a0This includes:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>carrying a knife or trying to buy one if you\u2019re under 18\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>threatening someone with a knife\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>carrying a knife that is banned\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>a murder where the victim was stabbed with a knife\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>a robbery or burglary where the thieves carried a knife as a weapon\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some young people say that they carry a knife for protection or to make them feel safer, even though they wouldn\u2019t think of using it. However, research has shown that you\u2019re actually more likely to become a victim of crime if you\u2019re carrying a knife<\/p>\n<p>In some cases, teens have been injured or killed by someone else using the knife they were carrying.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Stop Knife Crime please visit the links:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/learningzone.benkinsella.org.uk\/youtube-videos\/\">https:\/\/learningzone.benkinsella.org.uk\/youtube-videos\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/benkinsella.org.uk\/knife-crime-statistics\/?gclid=CjwKCAjwhOyJBhA4EiwAEcJdcRdbJfFAc9Tco2d_Kkle87HuwSur6ILWZA4qVCPqwGiSQ2R2jhKafxoCXP0QAvD_BwE\">https:\/\/benkinsella.org.uk\/knife-crime-statistics\/?gclid=CjwKCAjwhOyJBhA4EiwAEcJdcRdbJfFAc9Tco2d_Kkle87HuwSur6ILWZA4qVCPqwGiSQ2R2jhKafxoCXP0QAvD_BwE<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>What To Do If Your Child Goes Missing<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/runaways_parents_guide-2014_single_page.pdf\">Runaways parents guide<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To keep your child safe in the community, maintain clear communication about potential dangers, establish clear rules for interacting with strangers and public spaces, and ensure they know how to get help from a trusted adult or a safe place if they get separated or feel unsafe. Robbery crime prevention information from the Metropolitan Police Robbery Crime Prevention Leaflet County Lines County Lines is where illegal drugs are transported from one area to another, often across police and local authority boundaries (although not exclusively), usually by children or vulnerable people who are coerced into it by gangs. The \u2018County Line\u2019 is the mobile phone line used to take the orders of drugs. Importing areas (areas where the drugs are taken to) are reporting increased levels of violence and weapons-related crimes as a result of this trend. For more information about Drugs and Gang Culture please visit County Lines on\u00a0https:\/\/www.fearless.org\/en\/campaigns\/county-lines\u00a0 Knife Crime Knife crime\u2019 is simply any crime that involves a knife.\u00a0This includes:\u00a0 carrying a knife or trying to buy one if you\u2019re under 18\u00a0 threatening someone with a knife\u00a0 carrying a knife that is banned\u00a0 a murder where the victim was stabbed with a knife\u00a0 a robbery or burglary where the thieves carried a knife as a weapon\u00a0 Some young people say that they carry a knife for protection or to make them feel safer, even though they wouldn\u2019t think of using it. However, research has shown that you\u2019re actually more likely to become a victim of crime if you\u2019re carrying a knife In some cases, teens have been injured or killed by someone else using the knife they were carrying. For more information about Stop Knife Crime please visit the links:\u00a0 https:\/\/learningzone.benkinsella.org.uk\/youtube-videos\/ https:\/\/benkinsella.org.uk\/knife-crime-statistics\/?gclid=CjwKCAjwhOyJBhA4EiwAEcJdcRdbJfFAc9Tco2d_Kkle87HuwSur6ILWZA4qVCPqwGiSQ2R2jhKafxoCXP0QAvD_BwE What To Do If Your Child Goes Missing Runaways parents guide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16105","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16105"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16279,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16105\/revisions\/16279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatfieldsschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}