College promotes student safety in the community during their popular ‘Stay Safe Week’.

Well done to Havering Sixth Form in Hornchurch for hosting a very popular ‘Stay Safe Week’ that has seen many different community partners visit the New City College on Wingletye Lane to promote student safety in the community.

The week included a presentation of a Daniel Baird bleed kit by local safety campaigner Sue Hedges from the Ricky Hayden Foundation. These life-saving bags are approved by the London Ambulance Service and are used in the event of life-threatening bleeding in a range of scenarios, such as an accident involving glass, a road traffic collision, a knife or gun wound and other serious injuries.

Sue’s son Ricky Hayden tragically lost his life in 2016, and since then, along with her daughter April, they have donated the bleed kits, which contain chest seals and a tourniquet among other medical equipment, to many businesses in the local area in his memory. 

Sue was delighted to be involved in the Staying Safe Week at the college and told the Havering Daily: “The students have all been fantastic. They have asked questions and really been interested in the Ricky Hayden Foundation and so many of them have shown support for us by wearing our wristbands. It has been lovely to be here.”

Safeguarding Lead at Havering Sixth Form, Emma Wood, told the Havering Daily: “Sue is an inspiration and continues to work tirelessly to safeguard people within the local community.”

The other activities ranged from visits by Wize Up (Havering’s Drug and Alcohol Support Service) who ran an information stall, and the organisation Consent who ranworkshops to inform students about facts and figures in relation to sexual assault, the importance of consent, and maintaining healthy relationships. 

Tutorials were held on the use of vapes, cigarettes, cannabis and other drugs, the legal risks, and how they affect people’s health, and the students made pledges about how they could keep themselves safe – such as by letting people know they were home after a night out.

The week also included a Walk & Talk initiative where a group of female students called Here Come the Girls walked with police officers around the local community to share their thoughts on safety and point out improvements that could be made for women to feel safer.

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