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30 June 09
A record number of schoolchildren are due to attend the latest Crucial Crew interactive safety week when it takes place next week.
The week-long event kicks off on Monday (July 6) at Easton College near Norwich and 1010 children from across South Norfolk will be taking part.
Crucial Crew is co-ordinated by Norfolk County Council's Fire and Rescue Service and features theatre-style, interactive scenarios recreating hazardous situations to which children may be exposed in their everyday life.
Year 6 pupils (10/11 year olds) are placed in situations which simulate potential danger, such as a bedroom fire. The experiences seek, within a controlled environment, to raise awareness and provide practical and memorable advice on what to do.
The agencies taking part this time and their scenarios are as follows:
1. Norfolk Constabulary Personal Safety
2. South Norfolk District Council Environmental Health Department Kitchen Safety
3. Simon Daniels (Farmer) Farm Safety
4. The Matthew Project Alcohol and Drug Awareness
5. Norfolk Youth Offending Team Anti Bullying
6. National Grid Gas Safety
7. St John Ambulance First Aid
8. Forestry Commission Forestry Safety
9. Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service Fire Safety in the Home
10. Victim Support/Domestic Abuse Forum Healthy and Safe Relationships.
Harry Humphrey, Cabinet Member for Fire and Community Protection, said: "Crucial Crew continues to demonstrate its worth. The fact that nearly 20,000 young people from Norfolk have now taken part and are therefore that much wiser when it comes to safety is excellent news. All the evidence suggests that those who have taken part have not only retained the safety messages themselves but shared them with their friends and families."
Doug Underwood, co-ordinator of Crucial Crew for Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service, said: The main sponsor for this Crucial Crew is South Norfolk District Council who have been supportive of this event from the outset and I thank them again. I would also like to thank Easton College for allowing Crucial Crew to use the venue. I would also give a special thanks to a number of Rotary Clubs in Norfolk including Watton Rotary, Wymondham Rotary, Attleborough Rotary, Norwich South Rotary, Norwich St Edmund Rotary, Dereham Rotary and Diss Rotary for their continued support."
Councillor David Bills, South Norfolk Cabinet Member for Environment, Health, Recycling and Safety said: Thousands of youngsters, their friends and families in South Norfolk and in the wider county have benefited from this superb course. In countless ways, youngsters have gone forward in their lives better prepared and safer for it. It is also one of the great success stories of partnership, and the way that different agencies work together to make life better for our young people. It deserves greater public recognition and awareness, however it is most heartening to see the enthusiasm which this course generated with the schoolchildren.
South Norfolk Crucial Crew is the longest running Crucial Crew in Norfolk and this will be the seventh year it has been held. It is also the third event in Norfolk in 2009 and the 24th Crucial Crew to be held in Norfolk.
There are 42 schools attending this event, another record for a Crucial Crew in Norfolk and following this event 19,395 young people will have attended Crucial Crew in the county.
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