As part of the awareness raising of child exploitation, the CSCP will be delivering a bitesize learning session to encourage everyone to think about and spot the signs of child exploitation.

The training session will take place on Monday 18^th March 2024, 12:45-2:15pm, via Microsoft Teams and will cover:

• What is child exploitation, a basic understanding
• What to do if a child is being exploited
• Understand the role of the Complex Safeguarding Team
• Understand the Police response to child exploitation

To book your place, please email CSCP.Training@cumbria.gov.uk

Further information about the National Child Exploitation Awareness Day will follow.

Practitioner Forums help people who work with children and young people learn from each other, understand each other's roles and responsibilities and what local provision is available in each part of the county.  The Practitioner Forums are free to attend, you can attend any practitioner forum across the county, why not give one of the forums a try?

Cumberland (Allerdale, Copeland & Million)

• Friday 26^th April 2024 (10am-12pm) MS Teams

Cumberland (Carlisle) 

• Wednesday 24^th April 2024 (12.30-2.30pm) Cumbria House, Carlisle and MS Teams (hybrid session)

Westmorland and Furness (Barrow & South Lakes)

• Monday 22^nd April 2024 (10.30am-12pm) - MS Teams

Westmorland and Furness (Penrith)

• Wednesday 1^st May 2024 (1.30-3.30pm) - Penrith Rugby Club, Penrith

The forums are being delivered either face to face or via Microsoft Teams.  If you have not had an invitation before or you have not attended a Practitioner Forum but would like to join one of the forums please email practitioner.forums@cumbria.gov.uk and we will send you an invitation. 

We look forward to seeing you.

For more information - Practitioner Forums

If you are an agency working with children and families in any of practitioner forum localities, this is a brilliant opportunity to network and share information on your organisations services, please email practitioner.forums@cumbria.gov.uk for an invitation.

The Cumbria Safeguarding Children Partnership - Policy and Procedures manual has been updated and moved onto a new platform. The updated manual can be accessed here: https://cumbriascp.trixonline.co.uk/

You may have added the previous site to your bookmarks, please ensure this is updated with the new manual’s web address: https://cumbriascp.trixonline.co.uk/

If you have any issues accessing any of the policy and procedures within the manual, please email cscp@cumbria.gov.uk

Cumberland Safeguarding Hub held their first workshop for School Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSL’s) on 29^th January, there was a great response and it was great to meet DSL's in person for the first time.

Cumberland Safeguarding Hub are keen to reach out to more school DSL's to continue to develop safeguarding practice linked to the Cumberland Safeguarding Hub 'front door'.

Bookings are now being taken for the next two planned sessions which are detailed below:

• Monday 4^th March 2024 (9.30am-12pm) Cumbria House, Carlisle 
• Wednesday 8^th May 2024 (9.30am-12pm) Workington Community Fire Station, Moorclose 

If you would like to enquire about booking a place or to have an informal chat about the sessions please contact kirsty.fordyce@cumbria.gov.uk

The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel for England has published its 2022/23 annual report. The report analyses data and outlines learning from serious incidents, rapid reviews, local child safeguarding practice reviews, national reviews, thematic analysis and reports. Key themes explored include: supporting critical thinking and professional challenge; impact of racial, ethnic and cultural identity on the lived experience of children; and recognising and responding to the vulnerability of babies. The Panel also provides plans for its future work. NSPCC Learning has summarised the learning from the report in a CASPAR briefing.

Read the report: Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel: annual report 2022 to 2023  

Read the CASPAR briefing: Summary of the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel annual report 2022/23