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Below are links to upcoming multi-agency safeguarding training from the Safeguarding Partnership Board.
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 863747
The National Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel has published its review into the murders of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson. The report includes specific findings and recommendations for both cases, as well as wider analysis and national recommendations for child protection practice in England. Findings from both cases include: concerns raised by wider family members were not properly investigated; there were significant gaps in understanding around what daily life was like for both children; and there were weaknesses in information sharing and seeking between agencies that impacted decision making. National recommendations include: a new multi-agency model for child protection investigation, planning, intervention and review; and the introduction of new multi-agency child protection units in every local authority area. NSPCC Learning will publish a CASPAR briefing summarising the contents of the report next week.
Read the news story: Star Hobson and Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: family concerns disregarded – report
Read the report: Child protection in England
NSPCC Learning has published a CASPAR briefing summarising the final report of the independent review of children’s social care in England. The CASPAR briefing lays out the background of the review and the key points and recommendations from each of the review’s nine chapters.
Read the CASPAR briefing: The independent review of children’s social care final report: CASPAR briefing
Current child protection thresholds and pathways were originally designed to consider risks within the home and family setting; however, increasingly professionals are aware that children and young people spending time outside of the home can be subject to risk and harm. We refer to this as ‘extra familial harm’. There is national recognition that this type of harm is not adequately addressed through traditional child protection frameworks. Managing extra familial harm through contextual safeguarding is not a new concept and has been successfully implemented in many partnerships across the country. Locally, we have been keen to further develop processes to create a contextual safeguarding system that supports both the individual (tier one) risk and those areas surrounding the individual, such as places, networks, and peers (tier two). This will mean that when addressing contextual safeguarding risks outside of the home, there is an agreed partnership approach to identifying risk, understanding the context that the risk has occurred in and a consistent approach to planning for intervention and or disruption.
To support practitioners in gaining an understanding of what contextual safeguarding is and how it applies to practice we have produced a contextual safeguarding SWAY (https://www.safeguardingcambspeterborough.org.uk/home/virtual-briefings-sways/contextual-safeguarding/)
The Youth Offending Psychology Service is in the process of rolling out training in Trauma Informed theory and practice, with the aim of enhancing trauma informed knowledge and skills across services working with children and young people. This SWAY offers a first step into this area with an awareness raising, virtual briefing on Trauma Informed and Responsive Practice with Young People. For further information, please contact Nicky Asplin (Nicky.Asplin@peterborough.gov.uk ) or Emma Haworth (emma.haworth@cambridgeshire.gov.uk ).
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 The campaign aims to promote the support that the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) can provide to employers. The campaign highlights the free advice and training that DBS can offer to organisations and groups of all sizes, at both a national and regional level.
Training and support covers DBS checks, and the legal duty or power to make a barring referral. If appropriate, it can also include the opportunity to access tailored, DBS training workshops and resources. To help promote the campaign, DBS is working with key high-profile partners in the charity, faith, and education sectors, including the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), Strengthening Faith Institutions, the National Youth Agency, and the Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years.
These partners will promote the support and training available from DBS to organisations
and groups in their networks who employ staff and volunteers.
More information at DBS launches its 'Making Recruitment Safer' campaign - GOV.UK
(www.gov.uk)
DBS - Understanding Eligibility and Disclosure - 5th October 13:00 - 14:30
This 90 minute, Teams-based training will explore DBS checks and safer recruitment. It will be provided by the Regional Outreach Adviser (East of England), for the Disclosure and Barring Service. We will discuss:
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what level of check a role may be eligible for,
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what each level of checks shows,
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filtering rules,
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what counts as regulated activity with children and adults,
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the Update Service,
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safer recruitment practices.
This course is aimed at professionals working with children and/or adults in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
DBS - Understanding Barring - 18th October 13:00 - 14:30
This 90 minute, Teams-based training will be provided by the Regional Outreach Adviser (East of England) for the Disclosure and Barring Service, and will look at how, when and why you should make a barring referral to the DBS service. We will discuss:
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different referral routes,
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the legislation underpinning the barring work,
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when a barring referral legally has to be made & when one can be made,
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what regulated activity is,
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what is harm,
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how to make a good quality referral,
- the impact of being barred.
This course is aimed at professionals working with children and/or adults in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
The Care Act 2014, which governs the statutory duties to safeguard adults, is now eight years old and over that time safeguarding practice and the local partnerships that comprise Safeguarding Adults Boards (SABs) have developed and matured. The partnerships bring together a range of bodies including local authorities, NHS providers and commissioners, police, fire brigade, and independent sector.
The new arrangements creating integrated care systems (ICS) and integrated care boards (ICBs) under the Health and Care Act 2022 came into operation on 1st July 2022. The statutory responsibilities for Safeguarding Adults, previously held by the Clinical Commissioning Groups, have passed to the ICBs.
On 8th September 10:00 - 12:00, the Local Government Association are holding a workshop that will bring together a cross section of adult safeguarding partners to explore the issues, concerns, and opportunities that are unfolding as ICBs and health and social care integration develop.
The workshop will include feedback of findings from the project. There will also be updates from the DHSC and from NHS England. The workshop will use breakout rooms for small group discussions. These will focus on what useful guidance (including reference to the newly emerging governance assurance arrangements) can be made available to the wider Safeguarding Adults Community, to ICS, to place based integrated care partnerships, and to ICBs. The output of the workshop will be included in the final Project report.
Who should attend:
- Members of Safeguarding Adults Boards from all agencies
- Safeguarding Adults Boards’ Independent Chairs and Board Managers
- ICB Executive Directors with Safeguarding Responsibility
- Directors of Adult Social Services
- Clinical staff working in Safeguarding Adults designated and named lead roles
- Senior staff with operational responsibility for Safeguarding
To book for this event please click the link below: https://lgaevents.local.gov.uk/lga/1577/home
 NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough have commissioned a new all age service to help support individuals who are struggling to cope with their mental wellbeing. HEAR is a confidential, free, 24/7 text message support service for anyone in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
HEAR 85258 offers immediate support to those that feel life is overwhelming and can help with urgent issues such as suicidal thoughts, abuse or assault, anxiety, loneliness, panic attacks, self-harm, bullying and relationship challenges. HEAR 85258 does not replace the other emergency services, such as 111 option 2 for mental health crisis, or 999 if the person is in imminent danger/risk of harm.
There’s no charge to use HEAR 85258 and the service is discreet and easily accessible. It won’t appear on a mobile bill and requires no app, data, password or registration. The service is silent, free, confidential and anonymous – the person can send a text message any time of day or night, wherever they happen to be.
Launch Date and impact on services
The service will be launched on 1st September 2022 and initial focus is to promote the service to those under 25 years old.
Read the full briefing
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