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SAFER CAERPHILLY COMMUNITY SAFETY PARTNERSHIP
FIRE SAFETY ACTION TEAM – PROJECT BERNIE DISCUSSIONS
Meeting at 14:00pm on Wednesday 9 th March 2011
Pontllanfraith House – Conference Room
Chair: Rob Morris – Group Manager – South Wales Fire Service
Present
Natalie Kenny
Nadine Hudson-Featherstone
Dave Ansell
Rhiann Iles
Claire Williams
Joe Hopper
Kath Peters
Insp. Alan Webber
Paul O’Neil
Caroline Thomas
Sara Evans
Bev Horrell
Apologies
Catherine Davies
Natalie Davies
Gary Meale
Jonathan Davies
Ian Jones
Howard Rees
Rob Morris
Insp. Fran Richley
Sgt. Rob Davies
Alan Davies
Donna Crossman
Community Safety Partnership
Community Safety Partnership
South Wales Fire & Rescue Service
Community Safety Partnership
Caerphilly County Borough Council
Gwent Police
Caerphilly County Borough Council
Gwent Police
Caerphilly County Borough Council
Groundwork Caerphilly
Communities First
Caerphilly County Borough Council
GAVO
Caerphilly County Borough Council
Caerphilly County Borough Council
Caerphilly County Borough Council
Caerphilly County Borough Council
Caerphilly County Borough Council
South Wales Fire & Rescue Service
Gwent Police
Gwent Police
Wales Probation Trust
South Wales Fire & Rescue Service
Minutes of the Last Meeting
The minutes of the last meeting were agreed as accurate.
Matters Arising
NK has sent a list of promotional items to DA for ordering.
INFORM UPDATE – Natalie Kenny
NK provided the group with an update regarding the inform stage of project Bernie. All coming soon
posters have now been passed to CW for the three schools that will be involved in the project. The
billboards and merchandise have been ordered ready for the launch.
ACTION – A link to be created from the youth services website to the Bernie website.
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DA informed the group that the Bernie Facebook page is currently in hibernation but would be
operating during the project Bernie duration. A member of staff from SWFRS will maintain the page
but would need a contact in each of the four unitary authorities that would have local knowledge of the
area.
EDUCATE UPDATE – Claire Williams
CW informed the group that the ‘coming soon’ posters will be going up around the school by the end
of the week. Activities planned will provide 615 places for young people to attend from Saturday 16 th
April 2011 through to Saturday 30 th April 2011. A list of activities will accompany today’s minutes.
ACTION – BH has requested official SWFRS vehicles at three evening sessions. BH will contact DA
by email with the requirements to arrange this.
DA will order an additional 100 hoodies in a mixture of black and pink various sizes, beanie hats
(100), leaflets youth (1000), leaflets wardens (1000), activity booklets (2000).
ACTION – CW to provide information for the activity booklets by the end of next week for the design
team to produce the booklet.
DESIGN UPDATE – Howard Rees
A meeting was held and it was decided to combine design with control. HR and RD agreed this.
CONTROL UPDATE – Alan Webber
AW provided an update regarding control. Gwent Police is providing two officers per day for
enforcement patrols. Paul Wallen will also be providing two wardens per day for patrols and SWFRS
are providing two members of staff also. Meetings have taken place with the Forestry Commission
and Countryside and Parks to discuss areas. Hot spot areas have been marked onto maps to be
used by all those involved in control. Volunteers will also be involved in ‘Fire Watch’ during the 6-
week period. Areas for mobile CCTV have been identified. It has been agreed that the control
element of the project will operate from Bargoed Fire Station.
ACTION – NK will liaise with KP regarding the use of volunteers to distribute leaflets.
KP stated that when posters and information is taken to local shops they will be asked to sign up to a
pledge supporting project Bernie.
ACTION – DA to provide the correct wording of the pledge to KP for shops to sign and the information
will then be posted to the website.
SERVICE/SUPPORT – Bev Horrell
PO’N confirmed that four sections of the youth service are involved in project Bernie. A youth panel
was recruited and comments from them were received and fed back.
AOB
Facebook
DA stated that a member of staff from SWFRS would be responsible for the Bernie Facebook page.
Nicola will need a single point of contact for each of the Unitary Authorities for any questions relating
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to local knowledge. Contacts for Caerphilly County Borough Council will be Natalie Kenny, should
Natalie be unavailable Nadine Hudson-Featherstone should be the contact.
NK confirmed that NHF will be taking photographs during some of the activities of the first week and
that arrangements would be made during the second week for those attending the activities to take
the photographs.
Launch
The launch will be taking place at Tesco in Ystrad Mynach on the 1 st April 2011 between 10am and
2pm. DA has arranged for a SWFRS vehicle to be present and NK has made arrangements for the
mobile police station to also be available.
6. Dates of future meetings
• Wednesday, 13th April 2011, 2:00pm, Pontllanfraith House, Conference Room
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