For Cumberland Practitioners Only
The Cumberland Safeguarding Hub has launched a new Single Contact Form. The form is used to report concerns about a child or young person, make a request for Early Help/Family Help or make a request for information.
The new Single Contact Form went live on Monday 18th November 2024 and can be found on the CSCP website: here
Within the new Single Contact Form, there are three different types of referrals that can be sent to the Cumberland Safeguarding Hub:
- Referrals from a professional who works with children, young people and families.
- Referrals from an adult (member of the public) with concerns about a child.
- Referrals from a child with concerns.
A number of agencies supported us in the review and production of the new Single Contact Form, to ensure that it is useable and fit for purpose. Feedback from practitioners is that the form is more simplified and easier to use.
Important information: if you have saved a link to the old version of the Single Contact Form as a favourite, please delete this and refer to the CSCP website for the most up to date version.
When using the new Single Contact Form, if you experience any issues or have any feedback, please do not hesitate to contact the Cumberland Safeguarding Hub via email: safeguardinghub.fax@cumbria.gov.uk.
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A quick reminder that the CSCP's new Learning Management System, provided by Virtual College, went live on 29th August 2024.
This replaced the previous Cumbria County 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 and are therefore unable to access your previous training records undertaken on that platform.
Please click on the following link to register a new account or visit our website here
https://cumbriascp.vc-enable.co.uk/Register
Before you complete the registration form, please ensure you read the important information contained within the registration process.
The CSCP will carryout robust monitoring of the use of the Learning Management System and we ask all users to ensure they complete selected courses within a 4 week period.
As this is a new learning system, we may encounter teething problems. Therefore, please highlight any issues to the CSCP CSCP.Training@cumbria.gov.uk
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TRAINING AVAILABLE
The CSCP are delivering an array of training sessions. Please review below the current training being delivered either face to face or via teams.
Please also visit our learning zone on our website for all our eLearning courses offered to professionals and volunteers working with children/young people and their families who live in Cumbria.
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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. The course is designed for Designated Safeguarding Leads Only.
This training is part of a programme of learning events that practitioners and professionals, working with children, can access to support their learning at level 3.
- Thursday 30 January 2025 (1.30-4.30pm) St Gregory's & St Patrick's Infant School, Whitehaven
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Wednesday 12 February 2025 (9.30am-12.30pm) Voreda House, Penrith (limited spaces available)
- Tuesday 11 March 2025 (1.30-4.30pm) Barrow Town Hall, Barrow
To book your place, please email CSCP.Training@cumbria.gov.uk
Transitional Safeguarding & Exploitation Procedure Launch Session
Transitional Safeguarding is an “approach to safeguarding adolescents and young adults fluidly” and builds on the best available evidence and learning from both children's and adult safeguarding practice.
Further to learning identified in the Kate SAR, which was undertaken by Cumbria Safeguarding Adults Board (CSAB), the CSCP, in collaboration with CSAB, are facilitating a lunch and learn session to formally launch a Transitional Safeguarding Procedure for children and young adults at risk of exploitation.
The Transitional Safeguarding & Exploitation Procedure Lunch and Learn will take place on:
- Tuesday 3 December 2024 (12-1pm) via teams
Bookings are being taken via Eventbrite - please visit here to book your place.
The procedure sets out the arrangements for young people aged 17.5 years and above, whose circumstances may mean that safeguarding adults' procedures would apply when they are 18.
Practitioners working with children and young adults are invited to attend this lunch and learn session, where there will be a walkthrough of the procedure.
Important information - please join 5-10 minutes prior to the session and do not share the teams link with others.
Online Safety
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 (3.30-4.30pm) via MS Teams
To book your place, please email CSCP.Training@cumbria.gov.uk
Important information - please join 5-10 minutes prior to the session and do not share the teams link with others.
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.
- 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.
Important information - this training is multi-agency and we encourage practitioners from all agencies to take part in this training.
Child Exploitation Training
The CSCP recommend that anyone working with children should complete Child Exploitation (CE) Level 1 eLearning as mandatory training. Click here to access the training.
Those practitioners who work more closely with children and young people and are involved in their safety planning should complete Child Exploitation (CE) Level 2 training.
- Monday 13 January 2025 (1-4pm) Barrow AFC, Barrow
- Thursday 13 March 2025 (10am-1pm) St Gregory & St Patrick's Infant School, Whitehaven
To book your place, please email CSCP.Training@cumbria.gov.uk
Non Fatal Strangulation and Non Fatal Suffocation Training
Following excellent feedback from a recent session, the CSCP are running a further multi-agency lunchtime learning session on Non Fatal Strangulation and Non Fatal Suffocation (NFS).
The session is suitable for multi-agency 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
Wednesday 5 February 2025 (12-1pm) via MS Teams
To book your place, please email CSCP.Training@cumbria.gov.uk
Important information - please join 5-10 minutes prior to the session and do not share the teams link with others.
Cumberland and Westmorland and Furness Community Safety Partnerships have developed a series of learning events during the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence.
Examples of some of the learning events being delivered include:
- What is Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) and what are we doing to address it?
- An introduction to Domestic Abuse Awareness
- Awareness Session – Domestic Abuse & Children
- What is DARVO? - Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim Offender
- Domestic Abuse through the lens of those with Lived Experience
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This is an annual international campaign that kicks off on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and runs until 10 December, Human Rights Day.
All sessions are delivered via Teams. There is no need to book, simply log in at the required time.
For further details of the events, dates and how to book a place, please click here
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Voice of the Child
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