Hutt Valley (Hutt City and Upper Hutt)  is the 15th and 16th ISC in New Zealand and 203rd in the world. Safe Community programme outline, Application received July 2010, Site Visit August 2010, Designation Ceremony 2nd September 2010.

Name of the Community: Hutt Valley (incorporating the cities of Lower Hutt & Upper Hutt)
Country: New Zealand
Number of inhabitants:  136,116
Programme started year: 2007
International Safe Communities Network Membership: 2010
Full Application: www.safecommunities.org.nz/sc/hutt

For further information contact:
Name: Adrian Peoples
Institution: Hutt City Council
Address:30 Laings Road, Private Bag 31-912         
City: Lower Hutt
Country: New Zealand
Phone: 0064 45706718                     Fax:5706969
E-mail: Adrian.Peoples@huttcity.govt.nz
Info address on www for the institution:
www.huttcity.govt.nz  or  www.uhcc.govt.nz

The programme covers the following safety promotion activities:

For the age group

• Children 0-14 years:
  Families Day
  City of Values
  Junior Neighbourhood Support
  Car seat programme
  Plunket programmes
  Fire safe programme
   HEHA
  Crime Free Schools
  Alcohol Free Schools
  Parenting programmes
  School travel Plans
  Walking school bus
  Bluelight
  Child restraints
• Youth 15-24 years:
  Youth Infusion
  Nga Ara Kete
  Tamaiti Whangai
  Controlled Purchase Operations
  Photovoice
  City of values
  School travel plans
  Driving programmes
  Families day
  Dare programme
  Welltrust
  Youthtown
  Operation High School
  Truancy booklet
  Graffiti work
  Community Payback
  Secret level
  Vibe
  Whanau road safety
  Cycling programmes
• Adults 25-64 years:
  Safety Work out
  Home safety forum
  Hutt Housing forum
  Family works
  Clubmark
  Sportsville
  Driving programmes
  Drive sober campaigns
  Night Owls
  Community Patrols
  Neighbourhood support
  Safe City Awards
  City of values
  Family violence network
  Families day
  Door staff training
  Stay safe in the Hutt
  Salvation Army Bridge programme
  Abbat trust
  Sir Charles Burns trust
  Family Safety team
  White ribbon
  Youth workers network
  Timberlea graffiti project
  Cactus
   Project K
  Te ra o te raukura
• Older Adults 65+ years:
  Neighbourhood support
  Families day
  Volunteers day
   Aging together
  City of Values
  Tai chi
  Otago exercise programme
  Vitamin D falls prevention
  Home safety presentations
   

In the following Environments:

• Home:
  Neighbourhood Support
  Junior Neighbourhood Support
  Families day
  Ladder safety
  Plunket courses
  Family works fathers programme
  Family violence programme
  Hutt housing programme
  Smoke alarms programme
  Hutt valley home safety programme
  Salvation Army housing project
  Family Safety team
• Traffic:
  Road safety education programmes
  Speed campaign
  Intersections campaign
  Pedestrians
  Bike Wise Month
  Car seat checkpoints
  Motorcycle and scooter safety
  Take one for your mates
  Learner licence campaign
  Restraints
  Youth drive skills programme
  Whanau road safety
  Read write plus driver licence campaign
  Safety round schools programme
  Young cyclist of the year
• Occupational:
  Health and Safety employers forum
  Defensive driving for workers programme
  Safety work out
  Ladder safety
  Safety NZ Week
  Gold Awards
  Hutt employers forum
  Safer Industries
  Alcohol Accords
• School:
  Crime Free Schools
  Alcohol Free Schools
  Nga Ara Kete
  Youth infusion
  Truancy booklet
  School travel plans
  Dare programme
  Taiohi Morehu
  Young drivers programme
  Safety around school gates
  Primary school cycling programmes
• Sports:
  Tamaiti Whangai
  Tai Chi
  Cycling programmes
  Nga ara kete
  Clubmark
  Sportsville
• Leisure:
  CPTED in parks
  Liquor Liaison Group
  Host responsibility awards
  Door staff training
  Walkwise
  CCTV Lower Hutt
  Carpark+
  CPTED in libraries
  Making Places/Vision 2030
  CBD CPTED
  City of Values
  UHCC CPTED
  UHCC day lighting the subway
  Stay safe in the Hutt
  Secret Level
  Te ra o te Raukura

 Violence prevention (intentional injuries):

• Liquor liaison group
• Alcohol Accords
• Compliance checks
• Liquor bans
• CEG group meetings
• Door staff training
• Walkwise
• Community Patrols
• Maori Wardens
• Police on bikes
• Police on trains
• Family violence network
• CCTV
• Night Owls
• CPTED
• Family works fathers group
• Family safety team
• Tamaiti Whangai
• Taiohi Morehu
• White Ribbon
• Cactus

Programmes aiming at “High risk-groups”:

• Tai Chi
• Otago exercise Programme
• Vitamin D falls programme
• Home safety promotion
• Tamaiti Whangai
• Road safety programmes aimed at young people
• Cycling programmes
• Child restraints programmes
• Nga Ara Kete
• Dept of Corrections re-integration programme
• Salvation Army housing for ex-prisoners
• CACTUS
• Family Safety teams
• HEHA
• Taiohi Morehu
• Community Payback
• White ribbon
• Alcohol Free Schools
• Crime Free schools
• Welltrust
• Salvation Army Bridge Programme
• DARE

Surveillance of injuries:  

This issue is dealt with by the Hutt Valley Injury data Report. This is attached to our application as an appendix.

• Data collected:
  Hutt Valley demographics
  NZHIS Injury statistics
  ACC injury statistics
  Police crime statistics

 Numbers per year:

• During the five-year period 2001-2005, 231 people from the Hutt Valley died as a result of an injury, an annual average of 47 people.
• The leading causes of injury death in the Hutt Valley were motor vehicle crashes on a public road (25%), falls (22%) and poisoning and suffocation (both 19%).
• Older adults aged 75 and over had the highest number of injury death (23%) followed by younger adults aged 15-24 years (17%). 
• During the five-year period 2003-2007, 6,672 people from Hutt Valley were hospitalised overnight for treatment of an injury, an annual average of 1,334.
• The leading causes of injury hospitalisation were falls (42%), followed by cut/piece/struck (17%), then transport related injuries (13%).
• The 0-14 year age group accounted for almost a quarter of all injury hospitalizations (23%), followed by people aged 75+ (17%), then the 15-24 year age group (16%).

Staff

Number: 1
Professions: Safe City Officer, Permanent
Organization: Hutt City Council
Specific intersectoral leadership group: Safe Hutt Valley Interagency Group

International commitments:

• 17th ISC Conference Christchurch ‘09
• 2008 Workshop for the ISC Network in New Zealand, 23rd October 2008
• 2009 Workshop for the ISC Network in New Zealand, 23rd September 2009