Understand hotspot mapping as a safety method — how place, time, people and supervision gaps combine into a risk pattern, and how a map becomes actions with owners and review dates.
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explain how hotspot mapping works and how a school turns a map into owned, reviewed safety actions.
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Hotspot Mapping: Why It Works and How to Use It
Violence has an address
Ask staff where trouble happens at your school and most people can answer quickly: the boys' toilets at break, the back of the sports field, the gate where the taxis wait. 📍
That knowledge is valuable, but while it lives only in people's heads, nobody acts on it. Each teacher knows a piece. Nobody sees the whole picture, and nothing changes.
Hotspot mapping takes what staff and learners already know and puts it on one page where everyone can see the pattern — and where the school can decide what to do about it.
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