Spotlight Suffolk: Re-imagining Safety in our Communities

Join us for the latest of our Spotlight Suffolk series to talk about the safety challenges facing our county and how we can tackle them.

This discussion, featuring Police and Crime Commissioner for Suffolk Tim Passmore, will focus on safer spaces, aligning with the Government priority around safer streets. It will consider safe spaces - physical, online and social, in the context of the epidemic of violence against women and girls.

Taking place at the University of Suffolk, it will be chaired by Marisa Batson, Adult Mental Health Senior Transformation Lead at NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board. His Honour Judge Martyn Levett DL will give a short welcome and introduction.

Our panel will bring a wealth of expertise and experience in a wide range of areas, including the Director of the University’s Institute for Social Justice and Crime, Professor Miranda Horvath, and will include the voices of young people

The Chair will ask some key questions of the panellists and then open the floor to public questions.

This discussion is part of our Spotlight Suffolk series, which brings representatives from across the county together to debate the issues which matter to our communities. Previous events have discussed vital topics including Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability.

Chair:

• Marisa Batson - Adult Mental Health Senior Transformation Lead, NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board

Panel:

• Franstine Jones BEM - PRAP (Police Race Action Plan) Advisory and Scrutiny Panel, Suffolk Constabulary and Director of Compliance, Aspire Black Suffolk
• Professor Miranda Horvath - Director of the Institute for Social Justice and Crime, University of Suffolk and leading international researcher into violence against women and girls (VAWG)
• Tim Passmore - Police and Crime Commissioner for Suffolk

More panellists to be announced soon.