WORKSHOPS to help spread personal safety messages to children in North Yorkshire will include hate crime advice from this week.
Crucial Crew supports year six pupils into secondary school and adulthood, and has delivered workshops to more than 200,000 pupils since it began 26 years ago.
Sgt Neil Northend who oversees the programme with the Youth Officers said: "The workshops are designed to educate students in North Yorkshire to make informed decisions when faced with stressful, emotional, dangerous or ‘risky’ situations."
The launch of the new programme coincided with National Hate Crime Awareness week.
Supt Mark Khan, hate crime lead for North Yorkshire Police, said: "It is important for us to engage with children in relation to Hate Crime, so they can learn about prejudices at a young age and start to think about their role in combatting these prejudices. Hate Crime is real crime. It is not just about name calling. Hate Crime ruins lives and we all have a responsibility to tackle it."
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