believed and that those working on site are equipped to handle reports with knowledge and empathy so the purpose of this charter is to show festival attendees that if they do report it, even though it s difficult, that they will be taken seriously, that they will have a space to go and that festivals will have the ability to signpost them on to specialist services afterwards. it s a number of things, notjust whether or not you go to the police, it s straightforward things like medical attention, whether you need somebody to sit down with and spend time with away from the noise and kerfuffle of everything going on at the festival, and a safe space if you feel you are being harassed or endangered, somewhere you can go and know that you will be safe. it s quite a lot for the festivals to sign up to, isn t it, however well meaning they have been in the past, if they haven t had this before. i suppose a question from
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and, categorically, the number of offences which i track closely have gone down. so that s good news, but it s not enough. a lot of people are scared to report crime. we need residents, the people who live here, to report crimes. if they don t report it, we don t know about it. we all need to work together and fight this. but some people are afraid to speak out. landladyjo thirkell only discovered the full extent of problems on the estate after her windows had been smashed. everybody was so frightened to say anything. they didn t want to get the police involved because they didn t want their windows going in. and of the people who do know who it is, they re frightened too because they don t want repercussions. filming at night, i soon see why. 0ff camera, a group of teenagers surrounds us, asking what we re doing. we re gonna go. all right, lads.