1 / 8

Disability Hate Crime

Disability Hate Crime. Stephen Brookes MBE Co-ordinator – National Disability Hate Crime Network Lancs HCSP. What is hate crime?. When you think someone is hurting you because you seem different to them. hate crime against disabled people. Name calling Spitting

iolani
Download Presentation

Disability Hate Crime

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Disability Hate Crime Stephen Brookes MBE Co-ordinator – National Disability Hate Crime Network Lancs HCSP DHCN - Stephen Brookes 2014

  2. What is hate crime? When you think someone is hurting you because you seem different to them. DHCN - Stephen Brookes 2011

  3. hate crime against disabled people • Name calling • Spitting • Being pushed and jostled • Stopping someone getting on or off a bus • Throwing things at a disabled person • Bullying at school DHCN - Stephen Brookes 2014

  4. Hate crime against disabled people? Hate crimes? • Calling you names • Damaging your things • Frightening people • Hurting you • Causing fires • Murder DHCN - Stephen Brookes 2014

  5. Who can stop disability hate crime in our towns • Government • Police • Local councils • Housing providers • Health • Disabled people’s organisations • Local neighbours DHCN - Stephen Brookes 2011

  6. Reporting disability hate crime Easy ways to contact Police Good help from police when you report hate crime Meet people’s access needs: home visits, Sign Language interpreters, phone, text phone, easy-read information etc DHCN - Stephen Brookes 2011

  7. Hate crime and violence against disabled people • People can report hate crime to local Third Party reporting sites without having to talk to the police DHCN - Stephen Brookes 2011

  8. Report it to stop it! Stephen Brookes MBE Disability Hate Crime Network E mail – DHCN2007@btinternet.com DHCN - Stephen Brookes 2017

More Related