Leisure Safety : Events & Campaigns
CampaignsThe origins of RoSPA can be traced back to as early as 1916, and campaigning for improvements for public safety has always been central to what we do. Each of RoSPA’s departments has a number of key issues, in which we will try to address a situation that needs a champion. The Leisure Safety department’s two key issues for the next year are:
- To address the lack of a strategic approach to water safety by Government.
- To reduce the number of UK tourist drowning abroad.
Over recent years we have run and supported a number of campaigns to meet these objectives. One of the key problems in this sector is the lack of a robust and credible evidence base to found any intervention upon; therefore we have undertaken and worked with partners to develop knowledge about the key problems, and possible solutions that are balanced and proportionate.
Previous campaigns we have run or supported include Be Water Wise, RUA Dummy 2?, and Get Safe for Summer.
Further details about campaigns
Responding to Government and public consultation is one area where RoSPA will regularly work in order to help ‘save lives and reduce injuries’. Responding to a consultation does quite often take a lot of time and effort, to this end will work through with our policy groups, partners and members to effectively make a case. We regularly respond to, or give evidence at:
- Central Government consultations
- Select Committee
- Local Government consultations
RoSPA works across all walks of life (at home, leisure, work and road) many consultations will cut across different areas of our work. Therefore our responses are led from a particular department. We have listed our recent responses, with briefing papers and additional useful links.
Useful Links
What are consultations? (Direct.gov.uk)
Tips on taking part in consultations (Direct.gov.uk)
Current Government Consultations: Scotland
Code of Practice on Consultation
NWSF Water Safety Congress 2008
Information into Education - looking to the future
3rd & 4th March 2008
From childhood and into adulthood people need access to effective water safety education and information to help them make informed choices about safety issues in and around water, including their own behaviour. The NWSF Water Safety Congress 2008 introduced the National Water Safety Forum's principles for managing water safety which, when adopted, provide a reasoned rationale for making decisions that affect the safety of the public and workers on, in and around water. It also looked at how water safety information can be used to educate, inform and underpin future water safety policies.
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