Login
Report a concern
Places are available on the following courses -
Attending Multi agency case conferences
Faith and belief
Engaging Families, working with resistance
Making Safeguarding Personal
430 Hits
Places are available on the following courses -
Attending Multi agency case conferences
Faith and belief
Engaging Families, working with resistance
Making Safeguarding Personal
Case reviews
When a child dies, or is seriously harmed, as a result of abuse or neglect, a case review is conducted to identify ways that local professionals and organisations can improve the way they work together to safeguard children.
Click here to view NSPCC Case Review page - and subscribe to receive a monthly update alerting you to case reviews added to the National case review repository.
Wolverhampton Domestic Violence Forum has announced new training dates - their 2019 quarter 1 (January to March) schedule is now LIVE on EVENTBRITE! Once again, training is completely FREE, practical and can be applied to your practice. Trainers are also on hand to support with cases following training.
Spaces fill very quickly, so to avoid any disappointment, early booking is advised.
Links to Eventbrite/ training sessions are listed below. Once on Eventbrite, there is a drop down menu where you can choose a suitable date. There are also instructions/ additional information. If you are unable to book on via the website please let us know and we can advise.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: RISK ASSESSMENT, MARAC & SAFETY PLANNING
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/domestic-violence-risk-assessment-marac-safety-planning-and-support-for-professionals-in-registration-35917860287
FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION: AWARENESS RAISING
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/female-genital-mutilation-awareness-raising-only-open-to-professionals-in-wolverhampton-registration-35914652693
COERCIVE CONTROL & DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/coercive-control-and-domestic-abuse-see-description-before-signing-up-tickets-36859796644
SUPPORTING MALE VICTIMS & ASSESSING WHO IS DOING WHAT TO WHOM
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/supporting-male-victims-and-assessing-who-is-doing-what-to-whom-for-professionals-in-wolverhampton-tickets-47207904112
RAPE & SEXUAL VIOLENCE:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rape-and-sexual-violence-available-to-professionals-in-wolverhampton-only-tickets-41109003135
Dear all
The draft Safer Wolverhampton Partnership Serious Violence and Exploitation Strategy is now out for consultation, the link to access the draft document and consultation can be found here: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/TSWGSDC
Please could you use this link to record any comments or feedback on the strategy and circulate amongst your networks. The consultation will close 12 March 2019.
| Dear All, In November 2018, the Home Secretary announced the government's consultation on preventing and tackling forced marriage. The consultation is open to everyone, with particular interest in hearing from victims and survivors of forced marriage, those with expertise in the area of forced marriage, and relevant professionals, including those working in social care, education, policing and health. Click on this link for the briefing paper to support your response to the Home Office Government Consultation: Preventing and Tackling Forced Marriage. The deadline for consultation responses is 11pm on the 23rd January 2019. The consultation can also be found at: | ||||
New dates have been released for multi agency training,
Modern Slavery
Making safeguarding personal with adults and positive risks
Core Working Together
Contributing to Multi Agency Child Protection Conferences
As the festive season approaches, people are urged to be aware of the key warning signs of child sexual exploitation (CSE).
The See Me, Hear Me partnership, led by West Midlands Police and councils across the region including the City of Wolverhampton Council, is highlighting this hidden crime in the run up to Christmas so that people can spot the signs – and get help if someone is at risk.
A child or young person receiving unexplained money or gifts could be an indication that something is wrong. This, along with other unusual behaviour such as mood swings, skipping school, being secretive and staying out late, are also signs that parents, carers, schools, professionals and young people should not ignore.
Councillor Paul Sweet, the City of Wolverhampton Council's Cabinet Member for Children and Young People, said: "As the festive season gets underway we know young people will be exchanging gifts with each other and getting new things, but it's important for parents and carers to look out for anything unusual as this could indicate they may be at risk of abuse.
"CSE can affect both girls and boys and being aware of the warning signs, and acting on them early, can help prevent abuse from happening or escalating.
The Home Office have recently launched the Forced Marriage campaign, that Home Secretary Sajid Javid announced and unveiled a few weeks ago at the Ending FGM and FM International Summit.
Please find the partner pack attached which contains links to a variety of assets that you can use to promote the campaign via your relevant contacts and channels.
Assets include:
The Orange Wolverhampton campaign is now well underway but you can still join us in raising awareness of help and support for women and girls in respect of fears about or experience of Violence Against Women and Girls crimes (Domestic Abuse, Female Genital Mutilation, Forced Marriage, so-called Honour-Based Violence, and Sexual Violence.
You can find out more, sign your organisation, team or service up to join the campaign, order resources and share what you will be doing to support the campaign at:
| |||||||||||||||||
|
The Coping with self harm guide developed by the University of Oxford, is aimed at helping parents, carers, other family members and friends cope when a young person is self-harming.
Free online training for parents and carers is available from Virtual College, the training equips those with caring responsibilities to recognise the signs of mental distress and how to respond
The term 'county lines' is becoming more widely recognised and used to describe situations where young people may be internally trafficked for the purpose of criminal exploitation.
What is often less understood is the experiences a young person faces and the potential for them to be harmed through various forms of abuse and exploitation as a result.
This toolkit hopes to address some gaps in knowledge and offer suggestions for supporting young people who are at risk of, or being trafficked for the purpose of criminal exploitation.
The Children Society have developed a Parent's Guide How to support your child's well-being which gives some simple tips on how they can encourage children to take part in the activities that could enhance their well-being.
OurPact is much more than a parental control app.
OurPact is a breakthrough parental control app that harnesses the power of Internet and Application blocking in order to teach children proper device use and responsibility. By syncing your family's iPads, iPhones, and iPod Touch to OurPact, you now have the power to manage your entire family's device use under one platform
The Department for Education, the Department of Health and Social Care, and the Home Office have replaced the Multi-agency statutory guidance on female genital mutilation with an updated version
Click here to view updated guidance
FGM campaign materials
The October 2018 campaign highlights the harmful health consequences of FGM and signposts the NSPCC's 24 hour FGM helpline.
Aim – to update/refresh knowledge of the key issues in safeguarding Children and Young people
Objectives
Target Group
Designated safeguarding leads, Designated Child Protection Lead, Named Nurse, Lead Nurse, Named Person, Designated Lead and anyone who take lead responsibility in an organisation for safeguarding children and young people.
You must have completed the one day Core Working Together training since September 2016 prior to attending this refresher.
The Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner's (IASC) office, in collaboration with the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham, has launched an online toolkit to help local organisations and agencies work better together to tackle modern slavery
This toolkit aims to help guide practitioners in their work to tackle modern slavery through the sharing of resources and good practice examples, to inspire action and prevent duplication.
The toolkit is a free online web resource which includes:
It is estimated that over 12,000 11-16 year old pupils in Wolverhampton were affected by a significant bereavement in 2017.
The Atlas programme, run by Compton Care, aims to equip all professionals working with children (or whose work involves an interface with children) with the knowledge, skills and confidence to help them to navigate their way through their journey of bereavement.
For more information click here Compton Care
Childline has launched a website aimed at children under the age of 12.
This provides age appropriate content on topics including: bullying, family, friends, feelings, school, abuse and staying safe. It also includes games and therapeutic tools for young visitors to play and express how they are feeling.
It will be promoted through the NSPCC's Speak out Stay safe programme.
Most of you will know Timpson across the UK, for its shoe repairs and key cutting, but you might not know how much they put into support vulnerable people.
This set of useful books are a result of a lifetime of Alex and John's fostering work caring for over 90 children and young people. Alex Timpson MBE died in January 2016.
In tribute the huge contribution she made to championing the rights of looked after children, the Timpson family has established a new charity in her honour – the Alex Timpson Trust.
You can pop into Timpson stores and get your FREE copies.
Keep up to date with the latest safeguarding news.
© 2020 Wolverhampton Safeguarding Together
