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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.
The annual day of remembrance is held each year on July 14th to remember those lost to honour killings.
The Day of Memory was inspired by Bradford-born Shafilea Ahmed who was murdered by her parents in 2003 after suffering years of abuse for becoming 'too westernised'.
There are an estimated 12 honour killings each year in the UK although the exact number is unknown.
"In almost 25 years of campaigning I have rarely heard from families or communities speaking out against the horror of honour killings, so who remembers the victims? Each year on July 14th we do. We celebrate victim's lives and remember them as the most honourable of beings." Jasvinder Sanghera CBE karmanirvana.org.uk
We are asking those working or Volunteering in non-school organisations to let us know if they would be interested in attending this this training, details of course content below.
Click here to express your interest and indicate in the access section of the form if you would prefer an evening or Saturday course.
As a result of the Bichard enquiry into the Soham tragedy of 2002, the DCSF has made it mandatory that at least one member of every interview panel recruiting school based staff should have received appropriate training. It is also viewed that best practice would deem this training necessary across the wider children's workforce and Vulnerable Adults.
The course includes an assessment which is taken away at the end of the day for marking. Certificates, which are graded and then distributed to all delegates, it is therefore essential that attendance is for the whole day.
Target group: This course is essential for managers and practitioners who are involved in the recruitment and selection processes for staff and volunteers who will be working with, or providing services for children, young people, and can also be useful for staff who supervise and/or manage staff, as well as those with a designated/lead role for safeguarding and child protection business.
The government has published a draft of the statutory guidance, Keeping Children Safe in Education, to come into force in September 2019. This update is simply to ensure that the guidance is consistent with other areas of government policy. There are no core changes or new expectations.
The changes are to be found on pages 108 and 109, and include:
The draft Keeping Children safe in Education for September 2019 can be downloaded here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education--2
Working Together 2018 requires all Local Safeguarding Children Boards to publish their new Children's Safeguarding Partnership Arrangements. These will take effect from September 2019.
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 protocol is to ensure that in such situations issues between agencies are resolved in a timely manner.
The Safer Wolverhampton Partnership (SWP) is the strategic lead for addressing Interpersonal Violence (IPV) and Violence Against Women & Girls ( VAWG) in Wolverhampton. The Partnership is committed to:
• Addressing the root cause of IPV, including VAWG
• Challenging perpetrator behaviour and holding them to account
• Alleviating the wide-ranging effects of all forms of IPV on victims, survivors, their children, and our communities.
The vast majority of IPV is made up of VAWG; VAWG acknowledges the gendered nature of interpersonal violence, in that the majority of victims are female. Whilst it cannot be overemphasised that the national and local strategies recognise that there are both female and male victims and perpetrators and therefore encompass work around women and girls, and also men and boys, the gendered nature of these crimes must feature in our service response. The IPV strategy covers six key themes: Domestic Abuse (DA), Sexual Violence (SV), Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Honour-Based Violence (HBV), Forced Marriage (FM) and Stalking and Harassment
CAPE (children of alcoholic parents engagement), a new, national capacity building programme for professionals who work with and support children affected by parental alcohol misuse
Our work with children and young people has helped us create a number of booklets. These can help you start discussions about the impact of a parent's drinking. The resources below include activities, ways to talk about treatment and recovery and how young people feel growing up in a home affected by alcohol misuse.
This document is an update by the Safer Recruitment Consortium of a document previously published for schools by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES). It was initially issued as those working with children had expressed concern about their vulnerability and requested clearer advice about what constitutes illegal behaviour and what might be considered as misconduct.
Education staff asked for practical guidance about which behaviours constitute safe practice and which behaviours should be avoided. This safe working practice document is NOT statutory guidance from the Department for Education (DfE); it is for employers, local authorities and/or the Three Safeguarding Partners to decide whether to use this as the basis for their code of conduct / staff behaviour guidelines.
What is Hate Crime?
Hate crimes and incidents come in many different forms. It can be because of hatred on the grounds of your:
It doesn't always include physical violence. Someone using offensive language towards you or harassing you because of who you are, or who they think you are, is also a crime. The same goes for someone posting abusive or offensive messages about you online.
For more Information on hate crime and organisations that offer support and advice to victims and witnesses click here www.stophatewv.net
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Childnet have published a new toolkit to explore online issues with young people aged 11-14.
Myth vs Reality, explores the topics of online pornography, healthy relationships and body image. This toolkit is an extension of their successful practical PSHE toolkit 'Crossing the Line', which aims to generate discussions amongst young people aged 11-14 about their experiences online.
Myth v Reality can be found here: https://www.childnet.com/resources/pshe-toolkit/myth-vs-reality
Crossing the Line can download here: https://www.childnet.com/resources/pshe-toolkit/crossing-the-line
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