Welcome to the ARC ‘Safety Net’ Website

The website is about a project looking at ‘Mate Crime’. This is when people pretend to be friends with people who have a learning disability but go on to exploit them



The 3 year project is being run by ARC the Association for Real Change and is funded by the Dept of Health

Please keep scrolling down the pages for all the information. Including the voice options for the site. Using ‘BrowseAloud’

If you would like to keep in touch with the project use the ‘contact us’ link at the bottom of the page and we will add you to the email group

The Equality and Human Right Commission are holding a very important inquiry into disability harassment. For Easy Read information about the inquiry click here or visit their website

If you would to know more about the project please have a look at the information on the rest of the website and files below - a good place to start might be to look at some of the disability hate crime clips on You Tube. There are clips from a range of organisations across the country including York People First, Mencap and Grapevine.

There is a link to these clips on the Resources page

If you didn’t manage to see the C4 programme called ‘Sticks and Stones’ about Disability Hate Crime and its effects then you can see it on the C4 website

Click here or on the image to download this flyer

Click here to view the PowerPoint presentation

Click here to view a more accessible PowerPoint presentation

Click here for an easy read version of the Safety Net workplan

Clicking on the logos below will take you to the organisations who support the Safety Net Project websites

Accessing the BrowseAloud website via their logo will allow you to access free softwear which will enable this website to read the text when highlighted. Making it accessible for those who are unable to read.