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Wolverhampton Safeguarding Together is supporting the city’s participation in Mental Health Awareness Week (organised by the Mental Health Foundation) which is taking place this week until Sunday 24 May. This year's theme is kindness and the positive impact all acts of kindness can have on people's mental health and wellbeing – particularly during lockdown.
Kindess includes
Being kind to others: someone there to listen when you’ve needed to talk, volunteering to help those who need support
Being kind to yourself: taking time to do something for yourself to help your wellbeing e.g. taking some ‘me time’ to do something you enjoy.
Below are some examples of safeguarding concerns to look out for to best protect vulnerable adults, children and families during the Covid-19 outbreak.
Always THINK FAMILY! Whether your safeguarding concern be for a child or an adult – who else is in the household that could be affected?
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Residents are being warned to watch out for doorstep scammers asking for cash, personal details or bank details in exchange for food parcel deliveries or other goods and services during the Coronavirus outbreak. Here are some useful things to be aware of when avoiding scams:
Report scams or suspected criminal activity to: Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040 or if you need advice, call the Citizens Advice Consumer Helpline on 0808 223 11133.
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Children and Families:
Children are at home more often now that schools are closed. Trying to work from home with young children may result in an unintended lack of supervision – an accident waiting to happen. Stay safe at home during lockdown, prevent accidents, protect your family and help the NHS with avoidable injuries.
Vulnerable adults:
There is an obvious concern at the moment that social isolation might lead to an increase in falls and severe health implications amongst older people.
In this webinar, Neil Allen and Alex Ruck Keene, assisted by Rachel Sullivan, will discuss:
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Safeguarding REMAINS everyone's duty during the Coronavirus outbreak
[/pb_text][pb_text width_unit="%" enable_dropcap="no" appearing_animation="0" ]Wolverhampton Safeguarding Together is a multi-agency partnership made up of many organisations all with one aim in mind, to protect the welfare of vulnerable children, adults and families in Wolverhampton.
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The MARAC team will be launching a Controlling and Coercive Behaviour awareness campaign in April called "See the Cs".
The aim of the campaign is to increase the basic understanding of the dynamics of this behaviour within our partner agencies with a view to enabling them to better support victims both from an emotional and practical perspective, and also evidentially. We of course see this behaviour across our MARAC cases and there is still much work to be done around identifying this type of abuse, and ultimately being able to evidence it when the crime is reported.
The campaign will be launched via a week of events commencing Monday 20th April, schedule as follows:
Monday 20th April – See the Cs Launch Event at Tally Ho
This is a one day conference aimed at supervisors and leaders, with guest speaker Professor Evan Stark headlining and more to be announced.
If you're under 18 and a nude image or video of you has been shared online, you can report it and get it removed from the internet.
Click here for more information
To use our Report Remove tool, you'll need to:
For support, get help with your report or speak to Childline.
National Child Exploitation Awareness Day (sponsored by NWG see https://www.nwgnetwork.org/events/national-child-exploitation-awareness-day-2020) is on 18th March each year.
In Wolverhampton, the Safer Wolverhampton Partnership and Wolverhampton Safeguarding Together partnership have planned a range of joint activities to raise awareness of exploiation among both children and adults.
Please use the resources below to:
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