The BA13 Community Area Partnership is launching the new Wiltshire Alert/ICE (In Case of Emergency) card, starting with the students at the Fairfield Farm College.
The new card looks like a plastic credit/debit card which states that you need help on one side and on the other, spaces for you to add your name, emergency phone contact and name of any condition you have.
The ICE cards are part of the Safe Places scheme in Westbury, something our shops signed up to in the summer of 2014. By October that year, the Partnership was running out of the paper version of the ICE cards, so commissioned a local printers to produce more.
Safe Places is a national scheme encouraging businesses and services to provide initial support to anyone who feels lost and vulnerable when out and about in their community.
In Wiltshire, Safe Places has received funding from the Wiltshire Police and Crime Commissioner with support from the Wiltshire Community Safety Partnership.
Tara Watts, the Curriculum Support Manager at the College, said “Fairfield Farm College are happy to be part of and recognise the importance of the Safe Places Scheme in supporting our young people to be safe in their community”.
BA13 CAP distributed the paper cards to all the towns and villages in 2014/15 and will do this again with the plastic cards over the next few months. Both types of cards are on the counter of the Visitor Centre in Westbury’s High Street and are free for anyone to pick up.
If your group would like an individual visit, please contact ba13.partnership@live.co.uk
