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Coventry Safeguarding Children Partnership

October 2021


Welcome from the Independent Chair

Welcome to the latest edition of the CSCP Newsletter, which as you have come to expect, is full of timely and useful information.

I would draw your attention to the Coventry Family Valued initiative as this an important programme for the city.

Please do let us know your thoughts on the newsletters as the team put a lot of work into the content and your feedback will help us to improve even further.

Best wishes,

Derek

DB

Neglect resources

We have a range of resources on our web pages centred around neglect, including the latest Neglect Strategy, a training package on Adolescent Neglect and recordings from the Neglect Conference hosted earlier this year in February. Each presenter also provided a couple of questions and discussion points to facilitate further conversation when these presentations are being watched in future training sessions.

Access the resources


Adolescent Neglect Campaign

Adolescent Neglect

We have also launched a series of Adolescent Neglect posters for both Professionals and Children and Young People, focussing on how it is experienced, how to recognise it and how to respond and get help, advice and more information.


Safe sleeping is everyone's business

Our inter-agency training webinar on safe sleeping, jointly delivered by Coventry Safeguarding Children Partnership and Warwickshire Safeguarding Partnership, is now available on our webpage alongside a range of resources and the Safer Sleeping Practitioner Guide.

The webinar includes learning from national and local reviews as well as information from the Lullaby Trust on how to have opportunistic conversations.

To access all of the resources, visit the webpage

We will be holding a second learning event covering the same content on Tuesday 16 November, 2pm - 4pm. To book a place, email cscptraining@coventry.gov.uk


Podcast

We have published a second podcast on our channel looking at six key practice themes to make a difference, as highlighted in the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel's annual report.

We would again encourage partners to listen while taking a short desk break, being active and performing short exercises to prevent poor posture or strain.

Visit our Podcast site


Coventry Family Valued


Family Valued

As part of the Department for Education’s Strengthening Families Programme, Coventry Children’s Services is working with Leeds City Council, to embed Family Valued in Coventry.

Leeds is an “innovator” Local Authority, and their Family Valued innovation, aims to change leadership, culture and practice in Children’s Services and across the partnership, in order to promote new ways of working with children, families and each other.

Coventry Family Valued launched in April 2021. Hopefully many of you attended one of the Coventry Family Valued Launch Events, and the Re-Imagining Child Welfare Sessions which took place earlier in the year.

Key to Family Valued is Restorative and Relational Practice; which focusses on values, behaviours and the importance of relationships in creating sustainable change. Signs of Safety remains our practice framework, with this practice being strengthened further by restorative and relationship-based ways of working –  Signs of Safety is what we do, and Relational and Restorative Practice is the way that we do it.

Family Valued recognises that children and young people are generally best looked after by their own families and networks, and we have expanded our Family Group Conferencing Service, to allow for more Family Group Conferences to take place with families and their networks, with an increased focus on families being able to find solutions to keep children safe.

A Reunification Project is also underway, working intensively with a small number of children and families, with the aim of children being able to safely return to live with their family, where significant changes have taken place since they became looked after.

Restorative Practice Awareness Sessions are taking place for Children’s Services and our partners. If you are a partner who has not already booked onto one of the these session, you can reserve your space via this link: Book onto a Restorative Practice Awareness Session


Trauma informed practice

The West Midlands Violence Reduction Unit have free online training courses on trauma informed practice. 

Read more information and access the courses.


Reducing parental conflict

E-learning modules on Reducing Parental Conflict (RPC) are now available. 

There are 4 modules covering:

  • Parental Conflict and its Impact on Child Outcomes
  • Recognising and Supporting Parents in Parental Conflict
  • Working with Parents in Conflict
  • Reducing Parental Conflict: The Role of Supervisors and Managers

Read instructions on how to sign up and access the modules.


Family Group Conferencing (FGC)

A One Minute Guide on Family Group Conferencing (FGC) has been produced, giving a step by step process of whether the FGC is appropriate for a family, referral pathways, meeting planning and ongoing support.

Download the guide

FGC OMG

Learning from a Local Safeguarding Practice Review OMG

We have also produced a One Minute Guide on learning from a recent Local Safeguarding Practice Review. This review revealed important learning on:

  • The intrafamilial context to sexual abuse;
  • Use of drugs;
  • Impact of Covid-19;
  • Interagency working in understanding the risk of sexual abuse;
  • Practitioners assessment of parent/carers ability to protect where there is coercion
    or control;
  • Voice of the child being captured and informing assessment.

Download the One Minute Guide

We will also be sending agencies a short follow up form to assess how agencies use our One Minute Guides and share them further.


Right Help Right Time

Promoting children’s welfare is most effective when they receive help early and at a level according to their needs. The aim is to provide early interventions for children, young people and families that require support in order to prevent them moving towards higher levels of need, and to reduce the levels of need once these have been identified.

The Right Help Right Time guidance is for practitioners in all agencies working with children, young people and their families in Coventry and will assist professionals to identify the support that a child, young person or family might need and how best this support can be provided.

Our multi-agency Right Help Right Time workshops will use case studies to help you use the guidance to support your decision making in a way that increases professional confidence in managing risk and enables concerns about children to be addressed at the earliest possible stage.

Workshops are available on the following dates:

  • Wednesday 24 November 2021 - 10:30am - 12:30pm
  • Tuesday 18 January 2022 - 9:30am - 11:30am 
  • Tuesday 22 March 2022 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm

To book a place, please email cscptraining@coventry.gov.uk  


Children's Society slang dictionary

The Children's Society has produced a slang dictionary that includes common terms and language used around County Lines, which aims to start conversations with young people and raise awareness around this language.

Download the Slang Dictionary


Contextual safeguarding webinars

Contextual Safeguarding Awareness Webinars will be taking place on the following dates:

  • 22 October 2021 - 10:00am - 10:30am
  • 23 November 2021 - 10:00am - 10:30am

To book a place, please email cscptraining@coventry.gov.uk 


Contact us

Website: www.coventry.gov.uk/cscp

Twitter: @covCSCPandCSAB

Facebook: Coventry Safeguarding Board and Partnership

Instagram: Coventry_lscb