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The Lullaby Trust Newborn Infection Prevention Campaign

Young babies have immature immune systems. Even infections that are considered 'mild' in older children and adults can be life-threatening for babies. The Lullaby Trust survey of 2,300 new and expectant parents showed that more than half were unaware that kissing a young baby can put them at risk of serious infection.All visitors to babies are enco...
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Christmas Safety

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) have released guidance to help people avoid accidents over the Christmas period. Christmas safety tips Make sure you buy children's gifts for the correct age group and from reputable retailers, and ensure they comply to safety standardsRemember to buy batteries for toys that need them – that...
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Amy Dunn-Donachy

Purple Pledge Domestic Abuse & Employment Conference - 27th October 2023

 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...
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Ellen Potts

ICON Week 25th - 29th September 2023

The third annual ICON week (25 to 29 September 2023) 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 and social care organisations ...
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Exploitation Awareness Week 9th - 13th October 2023

Exploitation Awareness week begins on 9th October 2023. To build knowledge and support professionals, front line workers, parents, carers and grandparents, a number of awareness and information sessions have been organised by the Violence Prevention Unit. The sessions are being delivered by partner agencies and can be booked using the links below: ...
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Ellen Potts

World Suicide Prevention Day 10th September 2023

There are three events available for you to join to mark and support World Suicide Prevention Day 2023. On Wednesday 6 September colleagues from Black Country Healthcare Foundation Trust will be hosting an event at Blakenhall Community Centre from 10am to 12 noon. The aim of this event is to bring people together from across Wolverhampton to help p...
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Ellen Potts

CAPT Child Safety Week 5th - 11th June 2023

Who are the Child Accident Prevention Trust? The Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) is a UK charity working to reduce the number of children and young people killed, disabled or seriously injured in accidents. They exist because accidents are a leading cause of death and serious injury for children and young people; many of which can be prevent...
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WST Escalation Policy

Occasionally situations arise when workers within one agency feel that the actions, inaction or decisions of another agency do not adequately safeguard a child or an adult with care and support needs. The purpose of this policy is to ensure that in such situations issues between agencies are resolved in a timely manner. The Escalation Policy h...
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Ellen Potts

Winter Water Safety

After the tragic incident over the weekend, please follow the advice below issued by West Midlands Fire Service to keep yourself and others safe. The West Midlands Fire Service Winter Water Safety webpage also contains general water safety information. How to stay safe in winter: the dangers of frozen or icy cold water It is extremely dangerous to ...
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Amy Dunn-Donachy

The National Panel - Annual Report & Newsletter

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 ...
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Safe sleeping in winter & emergency situations

Recognising that the colder months might be difficult for families, The Lullaby Trust has put together information for parents and carers to consider when placing their baby to sleep during the winter months and for when babies are away from home or in emergency situations.  Please click on the links below to access this information....
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Wolverhampton Safety of Women and Girls survey

The Safety of Women and Girls Survey, being conducted by West Midlands Police and the Safer Wolverhampton Partnership, asks women and girls how safe they feel when they are out and about, and to share details of issues they may have either witnessed or experienced anywhere in Wolverhampton, along with locations that are of concern to them. The feed...
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Regional webinar: Identification and support for adults that are at risk of harm due to fire 23/11/2022

Walsall Safeguarding Partnership and Dudley Safeguarding People Partnership would like to invite you all to attend as part of Safeguarding Adults Week: Webinar: Identification and support for adults that are at risk of harm due to fire Wednesday 23rd November 2022 10:00 – 12:00 This is an opportunity for organisations to come together to raise awar...
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Amy Dunn-Donachy

City of Wolverhampton Council - Cost of Living Support

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, ...
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A summary of the multi agency safeguarding and domestic abuse briefing

 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...
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Free Mental Capacity Act e-Learning Course - SCIE

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...
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Amy Dunn-Donachy

ICON Week 26th - 30th September 2022

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...
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Amy Dunn-Donachy

Exploitation Conference for Licensing/Night Time Economy

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...
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Child safety awareness campaign urges parents to ‘Never, Ever Shake a Baby’

A new video campaign has been launched in response to concerns surrounding shaken baby cases in Birmingham. Recent statistics have shown that shaken babies and Abusive Head Trauma (AHT) feature year on year in West Midlands' infant hospital admissions and Serious Incident Notifications (SINs), which are triggered when a child is seriously harmed or...
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Amy Dunn-Donachy

Neglect WeCAN Toolkit Relaunch

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 ...
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