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For more details about the courses and to book a place on any of our training, please visit Multi-Agency Safeguarding Training | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Safeguarding Partnership Board (safeguardingcambspeterborough.org.uk)
For further information, email safeguardingboardstraining@cambridgeshire.gov.uk or telephone 01733 86374
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The Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (DASV) Partnership has worked with Against Violence and Abuse (AVA) to develop new guidance for professionals around Supporting Children and Young People Living with Domestic Abuse. The guidance was commissioned by Cambridgeshire County Council to help shape local guidelines and best practice in providing support for children/young people who are living with conflict, abuse, and violence at home.
Keeping children/young people safe is everyone’s responsibility. All organisations and professionals working with children / young people are in a vital position when it comes to identifying those who may be experiencing domestic violence/abuse and providing support, whether immediate or long term.
Access the guidance here
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The Mental Health & Justice research initiative, which is ‘A multi-disciplinary research initiative, addressing a cluster of public policy challenges that arise at the complex interface where mental health and mental healthcare interact with principles of human rights’ has done a soft launch of its new guidance on - Capacity Guide: Guidance for clinicians and social care professionals on the assessment of capacity. This guide is for all registered professionals who may be undertaking mental capacity assessments and completing mental capacity reports
 The government has published guidance for practitioners within local authority adult social services, or where these are delegated who are involved in safeguarding adults.
This guidance specifically focuses on adult safeguarding – the statutory safeguarding duties that are outlined in sections 42 to 46 of the Care Act 2014.
Part 1 of this guidance outlines what is meant by adult safeguarding and what applying the statutory duties involves, including local roles and responsibilities. Part 2 of this guidance explores what ‘good’ adult safeguarding looks like in practice, core practice principles for person-centred practice and examples of how these are embodied in instances where individuals need support. Part 3 of this guidance offers tools, reflective questions and further reading which can be used to embed the expectations and good practice outlined in Part 1 and Part 2.
Click here to access the guidance - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/revisiting-safeguarding-practice
It is estimated that one in ten children in England and Wales will experience sexual abuse before they turn sixteen. The majority of these children will not tell anyone at the time of their experiences.
The UK Government has launched the Stop Abuse Together campaign. The campaign aims to empower parents and carers to take steps to help keep their children safe from abuse. The website https://stopabusetogether.campaign.gov.uk/ enables parents to:
- Learn about the potential signs of abuse
- Build trust by speaking to their children regularly, which can help prevent abuse
- Find further support, including through the NSPCC helpline (0808 800 5000)
All children have a right to be safe from sexual abuse, and we all have a role to play in keeping them safe. Let’s #StopAbuseTogether.
Last year was the worst year on record for child sexual abuse online as lockdowns saw younger and younger children being targeted “on an industrial scale” by internet groomers.
New figures show that, in 2021, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) took action against 252,000 URLs which it confirmed contained images or videos of children being raped and suffering sexual abuse.
In total last year, IWF analysts investigated 361,000 reports, including tip offs from the public, of suspected criminal material. This is more than they dealt with in the entire first 15 years of their existence when, from 1996 to 2011 they assessed 335,558 reports.
The IWF is warning parents that internet sex predators are targeting and grooming younger children, with a sharp rise in content showing the abuse of children aged between 7 and 10 years old.
Child safety experts say younger children have been relying more and more on the internet during the pandemic, and that spending longer online may be leaving them more vulnerable to communities of criminals who are looking to find and manipulate children into recording their own sexual abuse on camera. The footage is then shared among other criminals on the open internet.
Find out more here
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The Department for Education are seeking views on proposed changes to Keeping children safe in education 2021, the statutory guidance that sets out what schools and colleges should do, and the legal duties with which they must comply, to keep children safe with a view to making changes for September 2022.
This consultation is being held here
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The National Institute for Health Care and Excellence (NICE) is consulting on a new draft guideline on self-harm setting out the responsibilities of non-mental health specialists when caring for people who self-harm in England. The guidance includes information on assessment and care in schools and educational settings. The consultation closes on 01 March 2022.
Read the news story: Self-harm is everyone’s business, NICE says in new draft guideline
Read the consultation documents: Self harm: assessment, management and preventing recurrence
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