Key Theme
Community Risk
Title
Minorca lane, Migrant worker
& traveller site visits
Function/Team
Community Safety
Date
Aug 2014
Service Priority
Prevent, Protect
Issue/Background
Minorca lane, Bugle is a migrant
worker/traveller site consisting of 251 static
trailers and caravans. Minorca Lane is
made up of 11 different caravan sites owned
by 13 different landlords/owners, this has
always caused some division when dealing
with local authorities.
Historically the Lane and residents have
suffered from a serious lack of or no
facilities and poor living conditions this has
had a major effect on a wide range of adults
and families with children who live across
the Lane.
Action Taken
Cornwall fire service have been and are
currently working in partnership with
Children’s social services to enhance the
safety and wellbeing of all residents, we
have provided multi language fire safety
and Family services information to
Portuguese, Lithuanian, Latvian and Polish
nationals working in Cornwall on short and
long term contracts, we have also provided
guidance and information for the small
group of Cornish Romany gypsy travellers
who live on site.
This initiative also enabled us to fit 10 year
life smoke alarms and 7 year life carbon
monoxide detectors to 251 Trailers and
caravans across the site.
We have also been working with the families
on site to enhance safety for children as the
Lane has no designated play area facilities
anywhere on site, and suffers from no
lighting on the public highway.
This will be an ongoing programme that will
involve bi-monthly/quarterly multi agency
surgeries with a greater empathise on
continual improvements not only for site
amenities but also to continue to enhance
the reputation of this small community.
Outcomes for Communities & Staff
This initiative has improved the overall
safety of every resident on site, it has also
allowed us to spend a great deal of time
across all 11 sites working with Landlords
and owners.
This has enabled us to build a much better
level of trust and this will help with future
projects across this community.
CFRS have fitted smoke and CO detection to
196 static caravans/trailers to further
enhance the safety of all residents on
Minorca Lane.
Children’s social services have successfully
mapped all children (71 in total) across the
Lane, providing important information
regarding health matters, GP surgery
registration, Schooling issues and this will
aid us as we look to fully integrate Minorca
Lane into local community life within the
Bugle/Roche area.
As a result of this initiative it will improve
our standard operating procedure for
accessing the Lane for operational incidents
and improve response times.
Contacts
If you require any further details about the
points raised in this case study, please
contact:
Name: Mark Pratten
Job title: Crew Manager
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 0300 1234 232
www.cornwall.gov.uk/fire