Community Safety Conference 2025

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Community Safety Conference 2025

Date: 24 March, 2025
Time: 10:00 - 15:00
Type: Conference
Organiser: Other
Cost: Free
Location: Edinburgh
Format: Hybrid

The confirmed agenda currently includes the following presentations and speakers:

Intergenerational Practice & Community Safety – Bella Kerr, Generations Working Together.
Processions and Parades – Professor Dominic Bryan, Queens University Belfast.
Hate Crime Strategy and Local Authority Toolkit -. Lesley Weber, COSLA.
Gypsy Traveller Cultural Competency – MECOPP
The Thistle- Scotland and UK’s first Safer Drug Consumption Facility – Dr Saket Priyadarshi, Associate Medical Director and Senior Medical Officer at Glasgow Alcohol and Drug Recovery Services.

This will be a hybrid event, however your attendance will be assumed to be in person. If you would like to attend online, please email to be sent the MS Teams link.