From Strategy to Street: Turning Community Safety Plans into Action
Helping Councils meet statutory duties through smart, scalable local solutions.
imabi Connect translates multi-agency priorities into measurable community outcomes.
Embedded within Travel Guardian, this initiative enables Councils to map Safe Spaces and other key local assets, share trusted information, collect actionable reports and demonstrate delivery against statutory duties — bridging the gap between policy intent and on-the-ground impact, and building safer, more confident communities.
Delivering Local Impact Through the Connect Initiative
Through the Connect initiative, Councils are bringing their community safety priorities to life: aligning statutory duties with local delivery and visible reassurance.
Embedded within Travel Guardian, Connect helps Councils share trusted information with their communities, map Safe Spaces and other local assets, provide clear and anonymous reporting routes, capture local feedback and engagement, and evidence delivery across towns and districts.
Night-Time Economy Safer Nights Use-Case
Many Councils working towards or maintaining Purple Flag status want stronger public reassurance and better evidence after dark. Councils can use the Connect initiative within Travel Guardian to support their Night-Time Economy plans.
Through Connect, Councils can:
Create a mapped “Safer Nights” area in Travel Guardian showing Safe Spaces, taxi ranks, late-night toilets, defibrillators and other community assets.
Share trusted information on drink spiking, active bystander tips, personal safety and getting home safely.
Promote responsible venue schemes (e.g., Ask for Angela, Safer Streets activity) to highlight partnership standards.
Provide clear, anonymous reporting for nuisance driving, noise and street-based ASB, with automatic map-tagging for hotspot tasking.
Run quick “Feeling safe tonight?” pulse polls to capture perceptions and feedback from residents, workers and visitors.
Publish real-time reassurance updates from policing, licensing and community safety partners.
Enable Travel Guardian’s free geo-location features for the public - including Share My Journey (live journey sharing with trusted contacts) and Rescue Me (location-aware emergency prompts) - to support safer routes home.
Evidence delivery using engagement metrics, poll results and hotspot insights for Purple Flag submissions and partnership reviews.
Used this way, the Connect initiative links Night-Time Economy priorities with practical tools, trusted information and demonstrable outcomes Councils can stand behind.
Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) — Safer Spaces Use-Case
Many Councils are strengthening their Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) strategies - aiming to make public spaces safer, improve early help routes, and increase confidence to report.
Through Connect, Councils can:
Map Safe Spaces and support venues where anyone feeling threatened, unwell or unsafe can seek help, alongside links to local services and national helplines.
Host trusted welfare information — from bystander awareness and healthy relationship campaigns to online safety and reporting harassment in public places.
Create discreet reporting routes for unwanted attention, stalking or harassment, allowing anonymous or named submissions that route directly to the right service or partnership mailbox.
Promote survivor-centred campaigns (e.g. 16 Days of Action, It’s Not OK, Ask for Angela) to sustain awareness throughout the year.
Provide clear signposting to domestic abuse, sexual violence and mental-health support, ensuring users can access help without navigating multiple sites.
Capture insight through short pulse polls asking residents and workers how safe they feel in specific places or during certain times.
Evidence progress through engagement data, reach of campaigns and feedback trends - supporting local DASV partnerships and Safer Streets evaluations.
Through this approach, Connect brings together information, reporting and engagement in one place: turning a Council’s VAWG strategy into visible, evidence-based delivery.
Serious Violence Duty & Youth Safety — Early Intervention Use-Case
Under the Serious Violence Duty, Councils are required to work with partners to understand local risk factors and prevent harm before it happens. Councils can use the Connect initiative within Travel Guardian to deliver joined-up communication, engagement and evidence for their violence-reduction partnership.
Through Connect, Councils can:
Map youth safety hotspots identified through local data or community insight, helping partners target engagement and reassurance activity.
Highlight diversion opportunities - youth clubs, sports schemes, mentoring projects and skills programmes.
Share trusted information about recognising grooming, exploitation and knife-related risks, co-produced with schools and youth services.
Provide anonymous reporting options, including Crimestoppers Fearless, for concerns about weapons, exploitation or unsafe situations, directing submissions to the right safeguarding channel.
Run short “Feel Safe Where You Live?” polls to capture young people’s perceptions of safety and identify areas needing support.
Enable geo-location safety features such as Share My Journey and Rescue Me to support safer routes home after school, college or evening activities.
Evidence delivery by combining engagement data, hotspot trends and survey insight to inform the local Violence Reduction Partnership and statutory SVD reporting.
Applied in this way, the Connect initiative helps Councils operationalise their Serious Violence Duty: turning insight into visible prevention, and ensuring young people can access help, information and reassurance wherever they are.
Hate Crime & Community Cohesion — Building Confidence Use-Case
Many councils are working to strengthen confidence in reporting hate crime while also promoting cohesion and inclusion across their communities. Councils can use the Connect initiative within Travel Guardian to provide consistent messaging, simple reporting routes and visible reassurance for residents, visitors and local groups.
Through Connect, Councils can:
Create a local “Stand Together” area showing where residents can get help or report incidents safely, both online and in person.
Publish trusted information explaining what constitutes a hate crime or incident, how to report it, and what happens next.
Provide anonymous or named reporting routes that can be directed to council community safety teams, hate crime officers or third-party advocacy partners.
Map community venues, Safe Spaces and support organisations that promote inclusion and cohesion, highlighting events such as Inter Faith Week or Hate Crime Awareness Week.
Share positive campaigns and role-model stories celebrating local diversity and allyship.
Run quick “Do you feel safe here?” polls to gauge confidence levels within specific areas or communities.
Use engagement data and report trends to inform partnership responses and evidence progress in annual Community Safety and Equalities reporting.
By creating visible, two-way communication between Councils and residents, the Connect initiative builds confidence that hate crime and intolerance are taken seriously, and that everyone has a role in shaping safer, more inclusive communities.
Environmental Crime & PSPO Messaging — Cleaner, Safer Places Use-Case
Keeping public spaces safe, clean and welcoming is a core priority in every Community Safety Plan. Councils can use the Connect initiative within Travel Guardian to make information about Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPOs) clear and accessible, while encouraging residents to report issues and see visible action being taken.
Through Connect, Councils can:
Display mapped PSPO zones in Travel Guardian, showing the boundaries and restrictions in plain English - for example, street drinking bans, dog-control areas or park curfews.
Provide simple routes to your existing reporting mechanisms for fly-tipping, graffiti, littering or ASB in parks and open spaces
Share real-time updates about enforcement patrols, waste clearance or environmental improvement works to show that concerns are acted on quickly.
Promote community-led clean-up days and volunteering initiatives through campaign visible across affected areas.
Run quick “How clean and safe does this area feel?” polls to capture public perceptions and target resources.
Evidence outcomes by combining report trends, engagement data and sentiment insights to inform PSPO reviews and partnership meetings.
In practice, the Connect initiative helps Councils maintain transparency and accountability: turning local reporting and feedback into visible improvements that residents can see and trust.
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