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Local Safety House Association President Beth Keillor is delighted that Cr Carol Cashman has replaced two of the Safety House signs in Bracken Ridge.

The two big yellow signs have recently been installed on Telegraph Road and Hoyland Street.

“The Safety House program is so important to the safety of our local children so I was more than happy for Council funds to be allocated for the new signs,” said Cr Cashman.

“It is a community based program which would not survive without the support of dedicated volunteers most of them busy people with families and work commitments.”

“They are people, like Beth, who feel strongly enough about the issue of safety to devote a little time each month to running the local Safety House Program,” she said.

Introduced in Queensland in 1983, there are now over fifteen hundred people from local communities contributing towards the safety of their neighbourhoods.

The original concept was devised to create Safe Houses for children to use in case of danger but it has been broadened to include the whole community.

People have the perception that the program was set up to help children escape from predatory adults.  While this does happen, last year there were thirty incidents where children were either followed by cars or approached by people, and there were an almost equal number of other incidents.  Often children fall off bikes, get chased by dogs or are the victims of bullying.

“The big yellow Safety House signs on letterboxes these provide a deterrent to would-be offenders.”

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