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Stay informed with a collection of short reads exploring the latest in safety, safeguarding, and wellbeing across communities, travel, education, and business.
From new laws and awareness campaigns to real stories and expert insights, our short reads keep you connected to what’s shaping safer, more inclusive environments across the UK.
Public bleed kit locations in Westminster added to Travel Guardian
Publicly accessible bleed kit locations across Westminster are now available on the Travel Guardian map, helping residents, workers and visitors find vital emergency equipment more easily. Added at the request of Westminster City Council, the locations form part of the borough’s wider commitment to first-aid preparedness and public access to emergency equipment. By making these resources easier to discover, Travel Guardian is helping connect people with potentially lifesaving equipment and local safety support when it matters most.
imabi Collaborates with The Liam Taylor Legacy to Improve Access to Lifesaving Bleed Control Kits
imabi is proud to collaborate with The Liam Taylor Legacy, founded by Julie Taylor in memory of her grandson Liam, who tragically lost his life to knife crime. Together, we're working to make lifesaving bleed control kits easier to locate through the Travel Guardian app, supporting Julie's remarkable mission to protect lives and help prevent other families from experiencing the same heartbreak.
Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews: Turning Lessons into Prevention
New Domestic Abuse Related Death Review guidance strengthens the focus on learning from domestic abuse-related deaths and preventing future harm. imabi explores what this means for organisations, VAWG strategies and the need to turn learning into practical action, and practical ways this could be achieved.
Best Bar None Venue Locator Now Available Through imabi Travel Guardian
Best Bar None is now featured on the imabi Travel Guardian app’s Noticeboard section, giving users quick access to its national locator tool and helping them find accredited pubs, bars, clubs and licensed venues nearby.
Fearless and Charlie’s Promise launch knife crime awareness campaign
Fearless and Charlie’s Promise have launched a powerful new campaign highlighting how anonymous reporting can help prevent knife crime and protect young people - an approach that closely aligns with imabi’s focus on prevention, trusted reporting routes and giving people safer ways to speak up.
imabi Collaborates with Kids N Clicks to Bring Digital Safety Content to Travel Guardian
imabi welcomes Kids N Clicks to the platform, bringing award-winning digital parenting expertise into its wider safety, safeguarding and wellbeing ecosystem. Selected content is already available through Travel Guardian, with further educational resources and opportunities to build on the collaboration underway.
Bracknell Forest launches new Women and Girls Safety Charter
Bracknell Forest has launched a new Women and Girls Safety Charter, bringing local organisations together around nine practical pledges. imabi has partnered with the Bracknell Forest Council to power a dedicated digital platform for Charter signatories.
Kingston launches new Safe Havens scheme
Kingston Council launches a new Safe Havens community safety scheme, with participating locations mapped on imabi’s free Travel Guardian app
Freshers Is Changing: More Students Are Choosing to Commute to University
More students are choosing to live at home and commute to university, changing what the traditional Freshers experience looks like. We explore the shift and how Travel Guardian can support students wherever university life takes them.
imabi Community CIC Becomes a Certified Social Enterprise and Joins Social Enterprise UK
imabi Community CIC has become a Certified Social Enterprise and joined Social Enterprise UK, reinforcing its commitment to creating safer, more connected communities through technology, collaboration and measurable social impact.
imabi achieves Good Business Charter accreditation
imabi has achieved Good Business Charter accreditation, joining a growing national movement of organisations committed to raising the bar for responsible business in the UK
From Strategy to Action: Supporting Delivery of the Safer Railway Scheme
A practical look at how the Safer Railway Scheme can move from strategy to visible action through stronger collaboration, clearer reporting routes, passenger engagement, support signposting and measurable safeguarding impact across the UK rail network. imabi explores how a shared national partnership space could help operators, policing, charities, local authorities and communities deliver, evidence and scale safety, safeguarding and passenger wellbeing across the network.
imabi joins the Railway Industry Association as rail safety and safeguarding remain in focus
imabi has joined the Railway Industry Association, strengthening its connection with the UK rail supply community as the sector focuses on the Safer Railway Scheme, safeguarding and safer journeys.
Violence Against Women and Girls Cannot Be Treated in Isolation
imabi reflects on why tackling violence against women and girls requires more than reacting to individual incidents. Through safety technology, clearer reporting routes and lived-experience campaigns such as Safety Is A Right, prevention must stay visible.
ASB, Community Safety and the Need for Clearer Local Reporting
As anti-social behaviour powers come back into focus, imabi explores why clearer local reporting routes, better community safety communication and joined-up insight matter for councils, BIDs and local partners working to create safer communities.
Bleed Map: Saving Lives Through Access - Now Signposted in imabi Travel Guardian app
In a critical emergency, knowing where to find a bleed control kit can save a life. Bleed Map is making that possible across the UK and imabi is helping raise awareness by signposting this vital resource within the Travel Guardian app.
County lines exploitation is changing - safeguarding must change with it
The rise in girls being identified in county lines exploitation challenges the stereotype of what exploitation looks like. Safeguarding systems must adapt because recognising victims earlier is often the difference between protection and harm.
New Law on Public Harassment: Why Reporting Is the Missing Link
Public harassment is finally being taken seriously in law. However, if incidents aren’t reported, nothing changes. imabi explores the gap between awareness and action suggesting ways of fixing it.
Northern Ireland named most dangerous UK region for women: what needs to change?
Northern Ireland being labelled the most dangerous UK region for women is a signal. A signal that too many everyday experiences still go unseen, unreported and unaddressed. Through imabi’s Travel Guardian app, safety becomes something you can actively manage - staying connected, informed and able to act in the moments that matter most.
Age Assurance: What Ofcom and ICO’s Updated Guidance Means for Digital Safeguarding
New guidance from Ofcom and the ICO tightens expectations around age assurance. But the real challenge isn’t the policy itself but it’s the implementation. imabi explores what organisations must do now to protect children while maintaining trust and privacy.