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 Welcome to the August 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.
Bookings still open for the CSCP 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)
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Please note: Initially, only one place per all educational providers, including nurseries, will be allocated.
How to book:
To secure your place, please complete the online booking form (link below):
Cumberland Designated Safeguarding Leads Conference
Pol-Ed is a full PSHE programme (EYFS to KS5) available in purchasing force areas, which is fully aligned to statutory RSHE guidance and wider PSHE objectives. Pol-Ed includes lessons, assemblies, assessment resources, and curriculum documentation to fully support schools in keeping pupils safe.
For those who were unable to attend Pol-Ed's Getting Ready for 2026-27: A Pol-Ed Update webinar series, or if you’d like to revisit any of the information shared, you can now watch the recording, click on the link below:
https://youtu.be/E7c5AO0qvvE
To note: Although this recording was delivered for schools in Kent, the content is equally relevant for schools in Cumbria, Humberside and Cambridgeshire. The only differences relate to a small amount of local content with the main updates and guidance applying across all four force areas
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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
Tuesday 22 September marks the launch of our Safeguarding Month.
Over four weeks, we will be offering a range of online training and awareness raising sessions covering:
- Neglect
- Child Sexual Abuse
- Domestic Abuse
- Learning from Practice (Local and National)
Further information, including booking details, will be shared in the coming weeks.
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Keep an eye out for our 5-Minute Briefings being published about the following.
Keeping Children Safe in Education
The revised Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2026 statutory guidance comes into force 1 September 2026, for the 2026/27 academic year.
ICON Week
ICON Week is returning this September and we’re excited to be able to share resources for this year’s campaign.
Taking place 21-25 September 2026, ICON Week brings together healthcare professionals, charities, organisations, and families across the UK to raise awareness of infant crying, support parents and carers, and help prevent abusive head trauma in babies.
Together, we can help ensure that every parent and carer hears the message:
Babies cry | You can cope | Never, ever shake a baby
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.
Dates for the following face to face courses have been published, so please check out our website:
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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
Early Years Statutory Framework
NSPCC Learning has updated its CASPAR briefing summarising the Department for Education’s Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) statutory framework, setting out requirements for learning and development, assessment and safeguarding and welfare in early years settings in England. The 2026 edition includes new and updated information on the following areas: sleeping arrangements; concerns about children’s safety and welfare; suitable people; and children’s screen use. The 2026 edition of the framework is effective from 01 September 2026.
Briefing:
Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) statutory framework 2026: summary of requirements
Early Years Safeguarding Training
The Department for Education (DfE) has produced a free online Early Years Safeguarding training package in collaboration with the NSPCC. The training covers sections one and two of the safeguarding training Annex C in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) statutory framework. Designed for those working with children from birth to five, the training provides early years educators with the foundations they need to identify signs of abuse to children in their care and to create a positive safeguarding culture.
Access the EYFS framework and take the online course:
Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) statutory framework
Reminder
The Department for Education has launched an online early years safeguarding training package, therefore, this training replaces the need to undertake the CSCP online Level 2 training and the face-to-face Further Awareness of the Safeguarding Environment training that was previously required.
Please review our recently published 5-Minute Briefing CSCP Safeguarding Training Update for practitioners working with children in Early Years
Safeguarding Babies
The Department for Education (DfE) has published the government’s response to the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel’s national review into the death of baby Victoria Marten published in February 2026. The response sets out how the government intends to implement all eight of the Panel’s recommendations to help safeguard babies in England. It focuses on: preventing babies dying by identifying and responding earlier to risk; reducing babies entering care by preventing repeat removals and strengthening family support; building the evidence base on effective and promising practice; and facilitating consistency in national guidance on babies and pre-birth support for pregnant women in safeguarding and child protection. The response also highlights the need for coordinated action across health, social care, education, justice, policing and wider public services.
Read the response:
Protecting all vulnerable babies better: a government response
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