LGfL has released a series of videos featuring a recently retired London police officer, Peter Wilson.

 The 14 videos help people understand the nature of County Lines including: 

• What is county lines?
• Why is it vital that ALL school support staff attend county lines training?
• Why are even 8-10 year olds at risk?
• My borough doesn't have much crime and there aren't any gangs
• Top tips for parents
• Could county lines be more widespread than we realise?

You can find the videos here: https://www.lgfl.net/digisafe/countylines

Keeping children safe in education: update taken from the NSPCC Safeguarding in Education e-bulletin 

Source: Department for Education

Date: 01 October 2019

The Department for Education (DfE) has updated the statutory guidance Keeping children safe in education for England. The updates relate to paragraphs 164 and 165 on schools' and colleges' legal duty to refer to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) anyone who has harmed, or poses a risk of harm, to a child or vulnerable adult. NSPCC Learning has updated its Caspar briefing summarising the new changes.

Read the news story: Statutory guidance: keeping children safe in education
Read the guidance: Keeping children safe in education: statutory guidance for schools and colleges (PDF)

See also on NSPCC Learning

> Keeping children safe in education (KCSIE) 2019: key changes from 2018

Domestic Violence: Risk Assessment, MARAC, Safety Planning and Support:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/domestic-violence-risk-assessment-marac-safety-planning-and-support-for-professionals-in-registration-35917860287?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=escb&utm-source=cp&utm-term=listing

A 3 hour session – after the session professionals will be able to:

• Have an increased understanding of what Domestic Violence is
• Recognise the signs of Domestic Violence
• Understand some of the barriers, how to 'ask the question' and deal with a disclosure
• Use the DASH risk checklist to identify a victim's level of risk
• Understand MARAC and how the process works
• Be able to refer a victim to specialist Domestic Violence services

Coercive Control and Domestic Abuse:

The Serous Case Review for Child N is published today.

Click here for a press statement to accompany today's publication.

Click here for the report from the Serious Case Review (or download from the image below).

Dear Colleague

The City of Wolverhampton are working on a youth strategy and wish to focus on three areas for children and young people: Being Healthy, Being Connected and Being Aspirational.

We have organised a stakeholder event for your chance to tell us what your experience of supporting children and young people in Wolverhampton is like. The event is free for stakeholders to attend and to offer their views. The event will be held on Monday 23^rd September at 1pm at the Workspace in Wolverhampton.

You must register to attend the event on Eventbrite via this link https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/growing-up-in-wolverhampton-stakeholder-event-tickets-70887322891

For further information, please contact Shanara Abdin on 01902 551350 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

This is a continuing professional development opportunity for managers and frontline practitioners. It aims to promote the lessons learned from serious and fatal fires, for the benefit of the citizens you work with.
As a reflective event this will focus on:

• Serious incident data

 • Case studies 

• Safe and Well referral mechanisms 

• New online learning opportunities

Booking is via Eventbrite, the password required is 'SafeandWell' 

There is the option of attending either morning or afternoon on each day: (AM 1000-1230 and PM 1400 – 1630)
Wolverhampton 16th September 2019

Our thematic briefings highlight the learning from case reviews that are conducted when a child dies or is seriously injured and abuse or neglect are suspected.

Each briefing focuses on a different topic, pulling together key risk factors and practice recommendations to help practitioners understand and act upon the learning from case reviews.

Download the learning from case review briefings 

https://learning.nspcc.org.uk/case-reviews/learning-from-case-review-briefings/

Types of abuse

A number of new dates for courses have recently been added to the training calendar. In addition many of the courses already planned have spaces available, including Safeguarding Children and Young People from Sexual Exploitation, Contributing to Multi-agency Case Conferences ,  No Recourse to Public Funds and Safer Recruitment.

A reminder to those who are Designated Safeguarding Leads in their organisation that they are expected to update their safeguarding training every 2 years by attending Core Working Together Refresher half day course. Four sessions are available between September and November and more will take place in the new year.

We operate a waiting list for all our courses and once we reach 8/10 people on a waiting list we book another date, please make use of this option as it helps us ensure the right number of places/course are available.

Charges are made for non-attendance or late cancellation of courses, the charge is £30 and details are in the Terms and Conditions of booking for courses. 

For private sector organisations, and organisations not based in the city, or not providing services or support to Wolverhampton residents, there will be a £50 non-refundable charge per attendee for each course.

Wolverhampton Health and Wellbeing Together asked for a Forum to be established to look at how we as a city work with people who have 'No Recourse to Public Funds'. This was as a result of the recommendations made in the Serious Case Review of Child G. The aim was to bring a range of agencies together to strengthen our approach to safeguarding the welfare of children and families with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) in our city.
The NRPF Forum consists of representatives from the voluntary sector, Housing, Education, Wolverhampton Clinical Commissioning Group, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, West Midlands Police, Safeguarding and Public Health. It aims to ensure that all partner agencies in Wolverhampton adopt a co-ordinated approach to working together to support people with NRPF.
The NRPF Forum highlighted the need to develop an easy to read protocol to support agencies across Wolverhampton to understand what information is needed from people with NRPF to support and signpost them to appropriate services. The Forum has overseen the development of this protocol.
It is important to remember that people with NRPF and their families can live highly precarious lives and can be subject to exploitation.
Where there are immediate child protection concerns, these take priority over NRPF issues.
By developing a protocol, creating online information resources on NRPF and arranging training for partners, the city is now better equipped to support people with No Recourse to Public Fund 

Wolverhampton's new  strategy aims  to tackle violence and exploitation in a more holistic way, bringing together work to address child sexual exploitation, child criminal exploitation, modern slavery, gangs and youth violence. 

Click here to view or download WTV Strategy