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Many are not aware that all households will be moved to Digital Voice only. The old PSTN will be switched off in December 2025. This means that residents with a land line will be moved to a digital phone system. This is relatively straightforward for homes with broadband connections and your broadband provider should provide free replacement phones. However, for land line users only equipment will need to be installed to provide a specially dedicated broadband connection for the digital phone.

There is a good article on Which that explains the Digital Voice and Landline Switch-off.

For most users, the change over should be straightforward. However, the digital phone system is not perfect for complicated set ups in larger properties. The digital phones link directly to the broadband hub. So may not have the range for the whole house. You may need Digital Voice Adapters that pair into the hub and then can be moved to a more convenient location and plugged into a normal electric socket. An existing non-digital phone is plugged into the adapter. As long as the adapter is within range of the hub, you will be able to use a standard phone as before. For further coverage BT DECT repeaters are available from outlets like Curry’s. These extend the range of BT DECT-based phones. Digital phones can be used together with standard phones using the setup of Digital Adapters and hub.

Our experience is that BT agents are not fully up-to-speed with more complicated setups but it now seems that we have a workable solution with both wifi and phone coverage throughout our house.

Hope this explains a little about the switch over. Something we were  not aware of until we upgraded our wifi and took the offer of free digital phones.

 

Dear Barton residents

Thanks to all this recent rain, we have noticed many of our hedges and shrubbery are bouncing back into life after the dry summer. As wonderful as this is, please be reminded that you are responsible for the maintenance of vegetation in your gardens, and particularly, ensuring that it is cut back from public paths and roadsides so as not to impede these areas.

Should you need any help with this, please get in touch with the Amenities and Open Spaces Working Group of the Parish Council via the contact details below, and we can recommend local gardening services that may be able to assist you.

Yours faithfully,

Cllr Danielle Stretch

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On behalf of the Amenities and Open Spaces Working Group

 

FREE ‘Stand up against street harassment’ bystander webinar

 

Last month we ran a campaign encouraging bystanders, when it is safe to do so, to ask ‘are you okay?’ to the victim when they witness street harassment in public spaces. The campaign received a lot of support, and many people have been in touch, wanting to know more about when it is safe to intervene and how to safely intervene when they witness street harassment.

Today, on National Personal Safety Day, we are delighted to bring you the free, one-hour long, expert-led, online webinar “Stand-Up against Street Harassment” bystander intervention training, delivered by the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, in partnership with L’Oreal Paris.

This training is highly relevant as a bystander response to all forms of street harassment, including sexual harassment, disability harassment, harassment against men, ethnic minority, marginalised groups, and all forms of hate crime, empowering the learner to know how to support someone who is being victimised.

 

HOW DO I SIGN UP?

There is a selection of dates and times to choose from. The training is only one hour long so easy to fit it into a busy schedule. If you would like to attend this free training, please sign up today.

 

Sign up here

 

 

MORE ABOUT THE STAND-UP TRAINING

Bystander intervention is the term for witness action to defuse situations and make public spaces safer. The Stand-Up training (sponsored by L’Oréal Paris and delivered by Suzy Lamplugh Trust) focuses on the “5 D’s” intervention programme originally pioneered by the international NGO Right to Be.

 

It encourages those who witness harassment to act by:

·  Distracting the perpetrator

·  Delegating by asking for help

·  Documenting the harassment

·  Direct intervention by speaking up in the moment, and

·  Delaying by checking to see if the person is okay

 

The programme drives awareness of street harassment with a call-to-action on a global scale. By opening the public eye to the scale of harassment that women in particular experience, Stand-Up aims to simultaneously discourage harassers, support victims and encourage bystanders to intervene with the aim to drive a cultural shift in the global response to street and public harassment.

 

The training is open to everyone – action from people of all genders and ages is vital.

 

Although there is a long way to go and certainly not the only way to end harassment, given the primary responsibility lies with the harasser, not the harassed, bystander training can be a step towards supporting and empowering victims of and witnesses to street harassment.