We have been camping on College Green for over three weeks in order to start a national and international conversation about social inequality, political corruption and corporate greed.
Although we have received an overwhelmingly positive response from our fellow Bristolians, we realise there are of course some practical isues raised by our presence on College Green. However, we are vigorously working to address them.
We have formed several working groups, including one to deal with health and site safety. The solutions implemented by this working group include:
Health and Site Safety
- First aid – We have qualified first-aiders on duty 24/7
- Stewarding – We have two stewards on duty during the hours of darkness covering site safety issues.
- Safe spaces policy implimentation & amends
- We have successfully implemented a ‘dry site’ policy.
- Bedding, clothes, tents
- Sanitation – We would like to once again thank Bristol City council for their co-operation in providing us with recycling facilities. We have hired our own portaloos to address our sanitation issues. We have people with food hygiene certificates who are advising in relation to food hygiene.
This working group has met informally in the last couple of days and has identified child protection as an additional area which they wish to address. There are a number of people on camp trained in youth and community work. As a result we have people on site who possess up to date enhanced CRB checks and are fully trained in child protection. They are drafting a formal child protection policy and will be proposing it to the Wednesday’s General Assembly. Assuming this is passed by our consensus decision making process this will be published on Thursday on our website.
