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 Welcome to the June edition of the Cumberland Safeguarding Children Partnership (CSCP) Newsletter.
Within this newsletter, you will find useful information from across the partnership and from our partner agencies relating to safeguarding, which is aimed to support practitioners and professionals in their role.
For schools settings only
The CSCP are hosting their annual Cumberland Designated Safeguarding Leads Conference on Tuesday 22 September 2026, (9:00am - 4:30pm), at Greenhill Hotel, Wigton, CA7 8LS
We are pleased to offer a free, full-day training conference to support the improvement of frontline safeguarding practice across Cumberland. A full Conference agenda will be shared closer to the event.
Who can attend?
This conference is open to:
- Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs)
- Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads (DDSLs)
Please note: Initially, only one place per school setting will be allocated.
How to book:
To secure your place, please complete the online booking form (link below), by Tuesday 30 June 2026
Cumberland Designated Safeguarding Leads Conference
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Cumberland Council's Summer Holiday Activity and Food (HAF) Programme is now live.
HAF provides funded holiday activities for children and young people who are in receipt of means-tested free school meals, as well as additional groups identified by Cumberland Council. These include:
- Children who are cared for or care experienced
- Young carers
- Children and young people on a Resettlement Scheme or seeking asylum
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Home educated children
- Children and young people with SEND or an EHCP (up to age 18) who are not on free school meals
If you are working with a child who does not meet the eligibility criteria but would benefit from attending, please contact: HAF@cumbria.gov.uk to discuss booking options.
Additional Programmes:
More activities will be added over the next few days and weeks, including an internal programme delivered through Family Hubs across Cumberland.
Find Out More:
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 The National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) have published a series of videos, aimed at professionals who interact with families, and helps to clarify the lessons learned from NCMB data into distinct and actional points that parents and carers can follow.
Please visit our Safer Sleep page, to access our Safer Sleeping Guidance and Safer Sleep and reducing accidents: key messages for parents and carers training videos.
The comprehensive Government Bill sets out measures covering child protection, assistance for children in care and care leavers, oversight of care services, school standards, attendance, and online safety. It also tackles practical aspects of pupils’ everyday experiences, such as providing free breakfast clubs, ensuring school uniforms remain affordable, improving allergy safety, and regulating independent educational providers.
To find out more information, please visit:
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026
The Children’s Wellbeing and School Act passes into law | Children's Commissioner for England
During this continual hot weather, can we remind you about our recently published 5-Minute Briefings earlier this month, regarding water and sun safety.
Child Safety Week - 1-7 June 2026
Drowning Prevention Week 13-20 June 2026
Sun Safety
When the Game Ends, the Risk Rises: Domestic Abuse and Major Tournaments
Farm Safety Week (20-24 July 2026)
The 14th annual Farm Safety Week in the UK takes place from 20-24 July 2026. Led by the Farm Safety Foundation (Yellow Wellies), this campaign aims to change attitudes toward risk-taking and highlight vital safety and wellbeing issues in agriculture.
In Cumbria, there are over 5,000 farm holdings, and farming is a significant part of our county’s economy, employing over 12,000 people. Unfortunately, agriculture has one of the highest fatal injury rates of any industry in the UK.
Due to the dangerous nature of farms, children, especially young children, should not be in the farm workplace. However, if children are taken into the workplace, e.g. for a learning experience, the visit should be properly planned in advance to avoid busy times or higher risk areas.
At all times, while the child is in the farm workplace, they should be closely supervised by an adult who is not engaged in any work activity. The sole focus of the adult must be on supervising the child.
Therefore, this week-long initiative focuses on challenging risky behaviors, preventing accidents from moving vehicles and machinery, and fostering a stronger safety-first culture. With farming consistently recording some of the highest workplace fatality and injury rates in the UK, the campaign encourages farmers and rural workers to re-evaluate their daily routines.
Keep an eye out for our 5 minute briefing being published.
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CSCP TRAINING
Cumberland Safeguarding Children Partnership have a range of training sessions on offer.
Please visit our training page on the website for all eLearning, virtual and face to face courses offered to professionals and volunteers working with children, young people and their families who live in Cumberland.
Further dates have recently been published for the following courses, so please check out our website:
- Further Awareness of the Safeguarding Environment (formerly known as Safeguarding Level 2)
- Understanding the Levels of Need (formerly known as Safeguarding Level 3)
- Child Exploitation Level 2
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Cumbria United is a county-wide project uniting sports clubs, coaches, and athletes from all sports to take a stand against suicide. One important goal of Cumbria United Against Suicide is to get as many people trained in suicide prevention as possible.
Therefore, they are offering a range of free suicide prevention training sessions tailored for sports clubs across Cumbria. They know that YOU can play a vital role in preventing suicide, and these sessions explore how.
The training is aimed at anyone who wants to understand more about suicide, recognise when someone may be having thoughts of suicide, learn how to talk directly and comfortably about suicide, and understand what practical support they can offer. There will be a specific focus on their role within sports clubs, and participants will hear through lived-experience videos how teammates, coaches, and club members can make a crucial difference.
Available sessions include:
Session dates and how to book your free place, please click on the link below:
Cumbria United Training Dates
Pol-Ed is a PSHE and Citizenship educational programme that provides schools with free lessons, assemblies and resources covering a range of topic areas. Cumbria Constabulary Pol-Ed Team are to run a webinar for all Cumbrian schools focusing on Financially Motivated Sexual Exploitation (sextortion) (FMSE). This will cover what Pol-Ed does, how to use it and how it complies with PSHE / RSHE from September.
Bookings are via Eventbrite, click on the link below:
Further information:
Westmorland and Furness Safeguarding Children Partnership (WFSCP) and Cumberland Safeguarding Children Partnership (CSCP) are pleased to welcome Recovery Steps to deliver Parental Substance Misuse Training, which follows on from learning identified in recent local reviews.
Brief Description / Summary of Training content:
This session explores the impact of parental drug and alcohol use on children and young people, drawing on learning from recent local reviews. It aims to strengthen practitioners’ understanding, confidence and multi‑agency responses when supporting families affected by substance use.
Who the training is aimed at:
Practitioners within the children’s workforce, including early help, education, health, social care, police and voluntary/community sector colleagues, across the whole of Cumbria.
Please note the session previously advertised for 11 June has been rescheduled. New date below.
Session date:
- Wednesday 16 September (9.00am-12.00noon) - Microsoft Teams
As this is Pan-Cumbria training, Westmorland & Furness Safeguarding Children Partnership (WFSCP) are taking all bookings.
Therefore, to book your place or for any queries, please email WFSCPTraining@cumbria.gov.uk, including the following details:
- Your full name
- Job title
- Organisation
- Email address
Talk Relationships
NSPCC Learning has published new Talk Relationships resources to help schools engage parents and carers with the sex and relationships education (SRE) being taught, supporting them to talk to their children about healthy relationships. The resources include: a schools toolkit; an editable presentation; a guide; and five factsheets on specific SRE topics and how parents and carers can address them. NSPCC Learning has also published updated resources for a Whole-School Approach Framework, in line with the new Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) guidance for England.
Access the resources: Talk Relationships
Online Safety
The NSPCC has published a news story setting out three key changes that it believes could help to better protect children online. Following on from the government’s recent consultation on the steps it might take to stop children being harmed online, the NSPCC is calling for: meaningfully enforced risk-based age limits, similar to film ratings, with tech companies using highly effective age assurance to protect children from using sites and platforms that aren’t suitable for them; banning the use of addictive design techniques which aim to keep children watching, gaming and scrolling; and ensuring that safety is built into every device, platform and AI tool to prevent children seeing harmful content or illegal images.
Read the news story: How can we help make children safe online? Our next steps
See also on NSPCC Learning: Online safety
Online Misogyny
Barnardo’s has published a report exploring the impact of online misogyny on children and young people's attitudes and behaviours. The research aims to help ensure that children’s voices about misogyny and masculinity are heard. Using data from a survey of 4,000 young people aged 13-20-years-old across the UK, findings include: around two thirds of young people reported seeing harmful gender expectations online; one in four girls reported being called degrading names online; one in seven young people aged 13–15-years-old had been asked to send a nude image of themselves; and a quarter of respondents reported seeing nude images that were originally shared privately and redistributed without consent. Young people said that they want tech companies to do more to prevent harm and have stronger protections in place. The report recommends that Ofcom’s guidance is strengthened into a mandatory Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) code of practice requiring platforms to take proactive, preventative action by embedding safety into the design of their services. It also calls for education, prevention and work with young people to challenge harmful attitudes to sit alongside a suite of regulatory measures to tackle online misogyny.
Read the report: The impact of online misogyny on children and young people's attitudes and behaviours
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