Safety tips will be given to schoolchildren at a new fire and police learning centre.
The Lifewise centre in Rotherham will offer South Yorkshire schoolchildren life skills, including fire, road and personal safety tips.
Lifewise is a life-size film set of a small town, which is used to deliver safety messages to the public. It has been built in partnership between South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue (SYFR), South Yorkshire Police and South Yorkshire Safer Roads Partnership.
Older people will also visit the centre as part of the new ‘Get Lifewise’ course, which aims to help older citizens with safety information they need to stay safe.
The centre cost £215,000 and replaces an existing Lifewise centre, in the town.
SYFR head of community safety, Phil Shilito said: “Lifewise is our flagship learning centre for delivering our fire and road safety educational programmes. We’ve worked very closely with the community, police and other partners to create a learning space which will more than pay for itself in terms of keeping young people safe and reducing future crime and emergency incidents.”
Lifewise’s flagship education programme ‘Crucial Crew’ began last week, with 400 Barnsley schoolchildren learning about anti-social behaviour, fire safety, arson, road safety, first aid and safe travel on buses.
