Our Safe Sleep e learning has been reviewed and updated. The training has been specifically designed
for professionals whose role involves advising parents about sleeping and the
care of babies. The course is free and
can be accessed through the BSCB
website e learning section.
Issues around Safe Sleeping remain an important
area of concern within the potentially preventable child deaths which have been
reviewed by the Child Death Overview Panel in Bradford in recent years.
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children (NSPCC) and CEOP have recently published, ‘Everyone
deserves to be happy and safe’ – A mixed methods study exploring how online
and offline child sexual abuse impact young people and how professionals
respond to it. Please take time to have
a look at the report’s findings and share it with your colleagues.
A reminder also that Safer Internet Day 2018 will be celebrated globally on Tuesday 6
February 2018 with the slogan Create, Connect and Share Respect: A
better internet starts with you. More details as sell as resources are
available at the UK safer internet centre website.
The multi-agency non-engaging pathway is a tool for
professionals who are working with families who are failing to engage with
services. This can lead to a professional concern about an unknown or emerging
risk to children and young people. The pathway, which was developed following a
serious case review, is clearly laid out and using a flow
chart to give practitioners clear guidance.
Please take time to have a look at the pathway
and make sure all staff are aware that this can be used when they are
struggling to engage with a family.
The children’s
commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, has published a series of reports
summarising the first hand experiences and accounts of children leading
vulnerable lives. The most recent is A Review of Evidence on the Subjective
Wellbeing of Children Involved in Gangs in England.
The commissioner also
writes about this in her latest blog.
The Child and Family Court Advisory and Support Service
(Cafcass) has published new
research from its submissions to serious case reviews.
Data was analysed from the 15 most recent SCRs
to which the service contributed between December 2015 and 2016; and a further
97 for which submissions were made between 2009 and 2016. It looks into the children and families involved,
the serious incident, the risks known at the time the case was open to Cafcass
and practice learning.
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