What Home Office funding is available to help reduce crime against students?
The majority of Home Office Crime Reduction funding is distributed directly to Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships (CDRPs). You should encourage them to use some of their funding to address the issue of crime against students. This is not another target or objective; reducing student crime will help them meet their own targets. For example, many of the areas with the worst burglary problems have large and heavily victimised student populations. This is also an area ripe for sponsorship – for example, some universities provide crime prevention booklets to their students containing, and paid for by, advertising from local businesses. Nationally, we are looking at engaging some leading brand partners to help deliver crime prevention advice to students and to get them to change behaviour.
