A TOWN council continues to raise awareness of domestic abuse.

Earlier this year Connah’s Quay town council became the first town council to work toward accreditation for the White Ribbon UK campaign.

White Ribbon UK aims to end domestic abuse and violence towards women by working will men and challenging male cultures.

At their monthly meeting, members were given an update of their action plan for 2019/20 and were asked to support White Ribbon Day which falls on November 25 – marking the 16 days of action.

Cllr Bernie Attridge said: “I fully support this. Can we look at the office being a place where people can buy the White Ribbon.

“We get lots and lots of visitors to council officers, just another way. Maybe the civic or the café, the locations where people go and another way of getting out there the message of White Ribbon.”

Cllr Steve Tattum added: “I would just like to say about how noticeable it is. A few weeks ago, I was out in some town in England, I was walking through shopping centre and someone stopped me and asked about White Ribbon and what it means.

“I thought that’s fantastic. It means people can take note and noticing you’re wearing and asking what it means.”

To mark White Ribbon Day, the town council has in previous years, participated in the placing of a white ribbon around the large tree on the High Street.

It was proposed to continue with this for 2019.

Cllr Ian Dunbar said: “Last year was a great success when we put the white ribbon around the tree and gave us a lot of publicity.

“I just hope we do the same on November 25 because it gave Connah’s Quay quite a good mention in press and people gathered around it was a good thing for this area and I hope it continues.”

Cllr Bernie Attridge suggested giving training to all members of staff and having signs around the bars and a certain word member of the public can say to signal they are in danger or uncomfortable.

He said: “Yeah it’s only the civic hall, it’s not a huge venue but if we could include that.”

Cllr Nathan Jones, who brought the original presentation to council, added: “That does form part of the action plan including things like material and posters in women’s toilets about awareness of domestic and where to report it and the signs and certain literature available that’s def something we can work towards and there is the online training.

“Hopefully we can encourage all staff to participate in that.”

Councillors also asked what other things they could do as a town council to continue raising awareness of the issue.

It was proposed to update the action plan and bring a revised version before council in December for review and ratification.