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On Thursday 29th August 2024, the CSCP Learning Management System, provided by Virtual College, went live.
This system has replaced the previous council's learning platform, which ceased in June 2024.
The following generic training courses are available for you to undertake:
- Level 1 Safeguarding Children and Young People
- Level 2 Safeguarding Children
- Child Exploitation and Extra Familial Harm
- Understanding the Impact of Domestic Abuse
- Radicalisation and Extremism (Prevent)
- Safer Recruitment
To access the above courses, you will be required to create an account. Please note if you were signed up to the previous learning platform, your account no longer exists.
Please click on the following link to register a new account.
https://cumbriascp.vc-enable.co.uk/Register
Before you complete the registration form, please ensure you read the important information contained within the above link.
Catch22 have produced a leaflet 'Lean' providing help and support to young people experiencing problems with substance misuse.
Lean, commonly called 'Purple drank', 'Dirty sprite' or 'Sizzurp', is a drink typically made from a cocktail of substances including; codeine linctus (an Opiate), promethazine, paracetamol and dextromethorphan; mixed with fizzy/fruit soft drinks.
If you are worried about young people who are using substances, support can be accessed from Youth Substance Misuse Teams within Cumberland and Westmorland and Furness Councils.
Cumberland Youth Substance Misuse Team
Youth Substance Misuse Officers work on a 1:1 basis with young people under the age of 18. We are specialists, who are experienced in working with young people in relation to substance misuse.
Referrals can be obtained by contacting:
Abi Macrae (Carlisle) Abi.macrae@cumberland.gov.uk or Barry Arnison (West Cumbria) barry.arnison@cumberland.gov.uk
Once a referral is received an officer will complete an assessment with the young person of their alcohol/substance use then plan sessions tailored to each individual’s needs. We aim to share appropriate education and harm reduction advice, relating to alcohol/substance misuse and related risk-taking behaviour.
The Team also run an Instagram and YouTube page @DrugHubUK offering a safe space to access information, advice and support to reduce risk around drug and alcohol use, to both young people and parents/guardians.
Cumberland - Youth Substance Misuse Team (leaflet)
Westmorland and Furness Youth Substance Misuse Team
The main aim of a Youth Substance Misuse Officer's role within Westmorland and Furness is to engage with young people under the age of 18 who show substance misuse needs.
How do you refer?
We are the first point of contact for young people in crisis in relation to substance misuse. YouthSubstanceMisuse.WAF@cumbria.gov.uk
Once a referral is received an officer will complete an assessment of the young person’s alcohol/substance use/misuse, usually within the family home, with the aim to deliver
appropriate education, harm reduction advice, relating to alcohol/substance misuse and
related risk taking behaviour.
Westmorland and Furness - Youth Substance Misuse Team (leaflet)
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From September 2024 SEND has been removed from the Early Help process for both Cumberland and Westmorland Furness.
You will no longer be required to complete an Early Help referral for a request for professional involvement or education, health and care needs assessments (EHCNA) requests.
Please visit the SEND in Early Help Process page of the CSCP website for further details.
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A reminder that the CSCP collect examples of good practice from the frontline. Specifically, we would like to collect examples of interventions (single or multi-agency) which have made or are making a positive outcome on a child or young person’s situation.
We will use Good Practice Submission Forms to develop a good practice catalogue. This catalogue will act as a ‘learning system’, by encouraging us all to reflect on our practice and then plan for improvement. We view your feedback as essential and can turn this into progress and improvement.
Please visit our website here
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The CSCP are delivering an array of training sessions. Please review below what is currently available.
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Safeguarding Level 3
The CSCP have secured further dates for Safeguarding in Practice - Working Together to Safeguard Children - Multi-agency approach to safeguard, protect and promote the welfare of children - Designated Safeguarding Leads - Only (Level 3 Training).
This workshop is part of a programme of learning events that practitioners and professionals, working with children, can access to support their learning at level 3. A full programme of events will be available for staff to access according to their learning needs.
- Tuesday 24 September 2024 (1.30-4.30pm) Kendal Town Hall
- Friday 27 September 2024 (1.30-4.30pm) Penrith Methodist Church
- Tuesday 8 October 2024 (1.30-4.30) Cumbria House, Carlisle
- Wednesday 23 October 2024 (1.30-4.30) Barrow Town Hall, Barrow
- Tuesday 5 November 2024 (9.30-12.30) Carlisle College, Carlisle
- Tuesday 19 November 2024 (9.30-12.30) Helena Thompson Museum, Workington
- Tuesday 10 December 2024 (9.30-12.30) Voreda House, Penrith
- Thursday 30 January 2025 (1.30-4.30) St Gregory's & St Patrick's Infant School, Whitehaven
- Wednesday 12 February 2025 (9.30-12.30) Voreda House, Penrith
- Tuesday 11 March 2025 (1.30-4.30) Barrow Town Hall, Barrow
To book your place, please email CSCP.Training@cumbria.gov.uk
For those practitioners who work more closely with children and young people and are involved in their safety planning, these practitioners should complete Child Exploitation (CE) Level 2 training,
- Friday 11 October 2024 (9.30am - 12.30pm) Cumbria House, Carlisle
To book your place, please email CSCP.Training@cumbria.gov.uk
Impact Chronology
The CSCP are delivering training on Impact Chronology. The sessions will be face to face workshops across the county. The aim of the sessions are to enable practitioners to develop skills in using impact chronologies.
- Tuesday 22 October 2024 (1.00 - 3.00pm) Barrow Town Hall
- Wednesday 11 December 2024 (1.30 - 3.30pm) Penrith Rugby Club
To book your place, please email CSCP.Training@cumbria.gov.uk
There will be further dates also delivered in the Cumberland area.
The CSCP are delivering a virtual briefing session on Multi-Agency Online Safety, this training is for practitioners and teachers, but is also suitable for parents/carers.
- Wednesday 4 December 2024 (3.30-4.30) via MS Teams
To book your place, please email CSCP.Training@cumbria.gov.uk
Important information - please join 5-10 prior to the session and do not share the teams link with others.
Following excellent feedback from the recent session this week, the CSCP are running further lunchtime learning session on Non Fatal Strangulation and Non Fatal Suffocation (NFS).
The session is suitable for multiagency frontline professionals and those with safeguarding practice/policy development responsibilities.
The session aims to equip you with:
- Awareness of the seriousness of NFS
- An understanding of the physiological and psychological impact of NFS
- Developed understanding of risk associated with NFS and how to identify and manage risk
- An understanding of how victims may present
- An understanding of how to respond and support appropriately to safeguard victims and children & young people
To book your place, please email CSCP.Training@cumbria.gov.uk
- Wednesday 5 February 2025 (12-1pm) via MS Teams
Important information - please join 5-10 prior to the session and do not share the teams link with others.
Leaving Children Home Alone
The NSPCC has published a news story about ending the use of physical punishment against children. New UK figures from the NSPCC’s Helpline show that between April 2023 and March 2024 there were triple the amount of calls to the Helpline mentioning physical punishment against children, compared to the year before. The news story discusses possible reasons behind this increase and makes calls for the government to end the use of physical punishment in England.
Read the news story: Over 300% increase in contacts to our Helpline about physical punishment against children
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NSPCC Learning, with the PSHE Association, has updated its Talk PANTS resources for nurseries and primary schools to help keep children safe from sexual abuse. The updates include a presentation of the Underwear Rule to use with 3- to 5-year-olds.
Access the resources: PANTS resources for schools and teachers
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