Suzy Lamplugh Trust offers free Stand Up Against Street Harassment training
The Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Norfolk is continuing to partner with the Suzy Lamplugh Trust to raise awareness of street harassment and upskill and empower bystanders across Norfolk to deal with all harassment types.
We are asking local businesses and organisations for their support, as employers in Norfolk, to arrange for as many of their staff to attend this free 30-minute online bystander intervention training as possible. The training is provided by the Suzy Lamplugh Trust and is funded by L’Oréal Paris to empower delegates to be active bystanders when they see harassment taking place, without putting their own personal safety at risk.
The training sessions are open to anyone from Norfolk and are ideal for licensed venues, taxi companies, food vendors, bus and rail providers, retailers, large employers, manufacturing and farming; hospitals, care settings and education institutions.
You can sign up to attend one of the upcoming sessions using the link below:
> Wednesday 25th November. 1:30pm-2pm
> Wednesday 16th December 1:30pm-2pm
> Wednesday 27th January 1:30pm-2pm
> Wednesday 24th February 1:30pm-2pm
If you would like to arrange a free, one-off and/or face-to-face session for your organisation/s, please contact ncsp@norfolk.police.uk. Please note, a bespoke session has to have a minimum sign up of 75 people.
About the free, 30-minute training
Following a growing national conversation around what the public can do to increase women’s safety, people and organisations want to take steps to be able to address the prevalence of unwanted and aggressive behaviours such as harassment that underly the broader cycle of violence against women and girls.
To accommodate public demand, the Suzy Lamplugh Trust and L’Oréal Paris formed a partnership to bring the expert approved international "Stand Up Against Street Harassment" training programme to UK audiences.
This is a globally approved program by the American NGO Right To Be and L’Oreal Paris, which aims to create a global community of bystanders who can safely intervene when they see harassment to support the victim and deter the harasser. To date this program has rolled out across 40 countries and trained over 3.4 million bystanders.
The training is even more of the moment now, as The Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act 2023 mandates that employers take “reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment”. It is imperative that employers take action to fulfil this duty of care and the Anti-harassment/Bystander training complements any other training and measures that these organisations are implementing in this regard.
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