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Location Safeguarding Checklist
The safeguarding arrangements each organisation confirms before joining the programme, based on Surrey Safeguarding Children Partnership guidance.
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Eight weeks. A community-led journey.
Explore how the eight-week Positive Futures UK programme works, from identifying local challenges and developing solutions to taking action and planning longer-term opportunities.
Before the programme
Programme preparation.
Prepare for local delivery with the checklist and an overview of the complete programme.
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Eight-Week Programme Overview
An introduction to the complete eight-week delivery journey.
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How to run the programme, week by week.
Three connected phases take young people from spotting local problems to pitching solutions and making change happen. Here is what each week involves.
Phase 1 · Weeks 1–2
Identifying the Problems
Young people identify local challenges and understand the issues affecting their communities.
- Week 1
What is happening?
Young people visit their chosen locations and record what they see, guided by the police problem-solving workbook.
- Walk the local area and note things about each location that might decrease feelings of safety.
- Record behaviours that might make some people feel unsafe.
- Observe who uses the space, how it looks and how it is cared for.
- Week 2
Why is it happening?
The group analyses what they found and agrees the problem they will work on.
- Explore why the problem is happening — the people involved, the location and the wider community.
- Discuss how the problem affects different parts of the community.
- Agree the top three causes and outline the problem to solve.
Phase 2 · Weeks 3–6
Developing Solutions & Pitching Ideas
Young people explore possible solutions, develop ideas and present proposals for addressing the issues they have identified.
- Weeks 3–4
Developing solutions
Young people generate ideas that are specific, creative and realistic.
- Work through five approaches: increase the effort, increase the risk, reduce the rewards, reduce the provocations and remove the excuses.
- Draw on the 25 situational crime prevention techniques for inspiration.
- Weigh up each idea: why it would work, potential challenges and whether the cost is high, medium or low.
- Weeks 5–6
Preparing the pitch
The group chooses its strongest ideas and prepares to present them.
- Discuss ideas as a group and select the solutions to take forward, with approximate costs.
- Explore designs and practical options with police designing out officers.
- Rehearse the pitch ready for the Dragons' Den.
- Week 6
The Dragons' Den
Young people pitch their solutions to local stakeholders, building on the Old Dean experience.
- Present the chosen solutions and explain why each will work.
- Answer questions on cost, permissions and who can help.
- Agree with stakeholders which solutions will be taken forward.
Phase 3 · Weeks 7–8
Taking Action & Planning Next Steps
Young people begin addressing achievable problems, consider longer-term solutions and move towards recognition and future opportunities.
- Week 7
Fixing the easy things
Action begins with the achievable solutions, learning from the MyTi experience.
- Start delivering the solutions that can be done quickly.
- Work with youth club leaders, residents and partners to make changes happen.
- Record progress and celebrate early wins.
- Week 8
Recognition and next steps
The programme closes with recognition and a plan for what comes next.
- Plan next steps for solutions that need longer-term work.
- Celebrate the young people's work at a recognition event.
- Introduce pathways into volunteering, skills development and further opportunities.
Weeks 1–2
Identifying the Problems
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Problem Identification Framework
A framework for exploring local challenges with young people.
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The Woking Model
Supporting material on the Woking approach.
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Police Problem-Solving Workbook
The Surrey Police workbook young people use to scan and analyse local problems, develop solutions and prepare their pitch.
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MyTi Club Experience
Learning from the MyTi Club experience.
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Developing Solutions & Pitching Ideas
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Police Designing Out Officers
Supporting material on exploring solutions with designing out officers.
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Old Dean Work & Dragons' Den
Supporting material on developing and pitching ideas in Old Dean.
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Taking Action & Planning Next Steps
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Fixing the Easy Things — MyTi Experience
Learning about addressing achievable problems.
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Expectations & Next Steps
Planning next steps for solutions requiring longer-term work.
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Recognition Event & Pathways Enrolment
Recognition and progression into future opportunities.
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