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How safe is your area?

This task uses a Problem-Solving Approach and is designed to take approximately 3 hours of teaching time.

The resource enables teachers to help pupils consider the problem of safety of an area for living in.It involves the use of primary and secondary data.

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Pupils will plan to investigate how crime statistics and perceptions of crime are related, in and around their region. They are able to consider a wide range of crime statistics and focus on those crimes that most interest them. They compare their own ‘perceptions of crime’ survey with actual figures for 2004/5 taken from the British Crime Survey. Figures have already been collated for different regions of the UK and data are available for the past 5 years.

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Data sheets

Online databases

Census At School

Crime statistics UK