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Mencap, the leading UK charity that fights for the rights of people with a learning disability, has purchased 3000 licenses for Lookout Call, a mobile-based lone worker safety system. The service will be used initially by community-based support staff in the charity’s Housing and Support Services. Their roles vary greatly and include visiting people with […]

Julian Housing, a Norfolk charity that offers support to people with mental health issues, is using Lookout Call to help protect all outreach staff who often spend long periods of time working alone in remote areas of the county. Julian Housing works in close partnership with Norfolk Social Services, Norfolk Health and all the major […]

Following a very successful pilot, Suffolk County Council has decided to extend its contract with C3, suppliers of Lookout Call, for a further two years. The lone worker safety system is being used by more than 400 staff across the Council, including 100 social workers. Staff from education, environmental, trading standards and racial harassment departments […]

Anglian Water has been using Lookout Call for its 1,700 field workers since 2000, and has now extended the use of the lone worker safety system with the introduction of a location-based feature that helps pinpoint the mobile phone of a lone worker to within a few meters. The company was concerned that, given the […]

The Crime Reduction Initiatives (CRI), a national charity working to create safer and healthier communities, is using Lookout Call’s mobile-based lone worker safety system to help protect its Street Outreach Team. The team was originally commissioned by Cambridge City Council in 2003 to specifically tackle rough sleeping, street-based drug and alcohol use, begging and sex […]