The tickets for The Haven's Purple Pledge Domestic Abuse & Employment Conference are now on sale. Date: 27th October 2023  Time: 9:30am - 3pm Location: Millennium Point, The Curzon Event Suite Fantastic speakers and guests including: Victims and survivors Prominent changemakers Professionals in the domestic abuse field Prac...

The Panel has today published its third Annual Report, which captures the learning from all the serious incidents and reviews considered in 2021. The Panel's oversight of national and local reviews enables us to provide insight and analysis of patterns of safeguarding. They have drawn on this to highlight six practice themes which they believe can ...

Useful links, tips and pointers on where and how to find cost of living support across the city. Our city should be a place where, everyone has the chance of a decent and secure life. Instead, too many people – many from working families – are struggling to meet their needs. Financial hardship means not being able to heat your home, pay your rent, ...

 In September 2022, the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel for England published its key findings from a thematic analysis of rapid reviews and local child safeguarding practice reviews where domestic abuse featured. It also included findings from a literature review of recent research into child protection and domestic abuse. This CASPA...

SCIE are offering a free Mental Capacity Act e-Learning course. The course is for everyone who looks after or cares for someone, for example, doctors, nurses, care assistants, social workers, and family members. Course Content: Introducing the Mental Capacity Act Supporting people to make decisions Assessing capacity Best interests decisions More c...

ICON Week starts today!  The second annual ICON week (26 to 30 September 2022) is here to raise awareness of infant crying and how to cope to support parents/carers and prevent serious injury, illness and even death of young babies as a result of Abusive Head Trauma that happens when someone shakes a baby. ICON is a programme adopted by health...

The Wolverhampton Partnership Exploitation and Missing Hub is delivering virtual safeguarding and exploitation awareness raising training on, the 12th October 2022 from 09.30-11.30am. The training is to provide you with knowledge and understanding of how to recognise and initially deal with issues around Child/Adult Exploitation. and, aims to equip...

The Neglect WeCAN Toolkit was launched in February 2020 just before the Covid-19 Pandemic hit and didn't have the desired impact we had hoped for. We will be hosting two briefing sessions to relaunch the Toolkit and Strategy on the 21st June 2022; 10am - 12pm and 2pm - 4pm. As part of these briefing sessions learning from Child R CSPR will also be ...

 What's on Kooth in May: Please see attached 'What's on Kooth... in May' poster highlighting the upcoming Live Forums and Discussion Boards. The upcoming Live Forums on Kooth for young people to access during May are as follows:- ØFriday 6th May – Emotions - Alternative ways to explore and manage Ø Wednesday 11th May – Support Friends - After ...

This is the third national review commissioned by the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel.  It focusses on the circumstances of babies under 1 years old who have been harmed or killed by their father or other males in a caring role.  The specific questions this review seeks to answer are:  Looking at cases of non-accidental...

Wolverhampton Safeguarding Together are offering four training sessions to introduce suicide prevention skills. The sessions are aimed at those who work directly with children and young people and are delivered by Papyrus, https://www.papyrus-uk.org/ They will cover the following consider the attitudes, myths and stigma that surround suiciderecogni...

Black Country Healthcare are hosting a National Suicide Prevention & Well-being Webinar on Friday 10th September.   This event will run from 10am - 12pm and is free of charge.  There will be key speakers, grass root voices and associated materials, workshops, Mindfulness and Well-being sessions.  You can register for th...

Contextual Safeguarding Newsletter Follow the link below to view the newsletter in full.. https://mailchi.mp/9ab615a76c04/contextual-safeguarding-newsletter-5004254?e=aaca55c066 Enter your text here ...

Employers and parents are being advised of the rules regarding the employment of children who are still of compulsory school age. April is Child Employment Awareness Month, and the City of Wolverhampton Council is reminding people who employ children aged between 13 and 16 that they need permits to comply with employment laws. These permits are fre...

The West Midlands Violence Reduction Unit (WM VRU) has created a communications pack for #WMExploitationWeek. Co-ordinated by the WM VRU, Exploitation Awareness Week (15th – 21st March) is a regional campaign coinciding with National Exploitation Awareness Day on 18th March. The campaign aims to raise awareness of all forms of exploitation, how to ...

The NSPCC Library hosts the National collection of case reviews. This update highlights case reviews recently added to the collection and features one of our Learning from case reviews briefings. NSPCC have added six case reviews to the collection this month featuring a number of issues including child criminal exploitation, drug misuse, physi...

 Trauma Informed Training The West Midlands Violence Reduction Unit has launched the new Trauma Informed section of the website which includes access to FREE ONLINE WEBINARS. These webinars offer training in Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Trauma-Informed Practice. The training is designed to help professionals instil a more human cen...

 Latest Resources: For our March Kooth update I would like to share our latest resources including our new posters for Eating Disorders Week (1st-7th March 2021) and Self-Injury Awareness Day (1st March 2021). Please see below links to both resources: Eating Disorders Awareness Week: Eating Disorders Awareness Week - VIEW HERE Self-Injury Awar...

Exploitation can come in many forms and our children and young people deserve to receive support and protection from the right agencies at the right time.In order to ensure that this happens, safeguarding agencies have been working together to improve the way they individually and collectively identify and support children, young people and familie...

In March 2021 we will be offering Exploitation Awareness sessions for parents and carers.  Download the PowerPoint below for further information on what you can expect from the sessions.  File Name: Exploitation-Powerpoint File Size: 663 kb Download File Keep an eye on our Latest News and Social Media for the dates and how to register.&nb...