Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018 has been amended as of 9th December 2020.

The amendments are under the same 2018 date so could easily be missed. To view the updated document, and to see the summary of the amendments made please CLICK HERE.

Something's not Right campaign

You may find this useful in your work with young people.  The Home Office has created a new campaign, 'Something's Not Right', to help secondary children in England who suffered a range of harms, such as sexual and physical abuse, during lockdown. CLICK HERE to read more about this campaign.

New Serious Case Review published 

The GSCE Published the 'Lauren' Serious Case Review on Monday 14^th December 2020 CLICK HERE  to access the Report, Practice Briefing and Partnership Response to Recommendations

Who’s in Charge?

Safeguarding Partners in Birmingham have launched the ‘Who’s In Charge’ campaign, about the impact of alcohol and substances on parental capacity to ensure the safe care and sleeping arrangements for very young infants. It is illustrated by five short films and useful information. The campaign was spearheaded by the Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and has been informed by a number of serious incidents over recent years as well as the Panel’s national research. CLICK HERE to read more.

GSCE Multi-Agency Training and Learning Resources - Update 

In mid-March 2020 the country went into lockdown and GSCE was forced to cancel all face to face training. With the ongoing uncertainty the decision was made to extend this to the end of 2020, we are now extending this period until March 2021 and will review over the coming months.

In the meantime we have successfully launched our new GSCE training platform which offers a range of on-line safeguarding children e-learning courses and trainer led virtual courses.

We have begun to develop a new approach to training which moves away from a culture of ‘tick box’ training towards a 'curriculum of learning' approach, based on the premise of Continual Professional Development. The foundation of this is the new training platform, which offers easy access to a range of blended learning resources:

• thematic e-learning courses
• trainer led virtual courses i.e. Child Protection Interagency (level 3)
• self-directed learning through pre-reading and skills tests
• practice briefings
• links to key local and national guidance, protocols and procedures
• live and recorded webinars on local learning

This approach requires practitioners to be continually updating their knowledge and skills and to build-up their own portfolio or passport of continuous learning and to log their CPD hours achieved.

Over the coming months, new courses and resources will be added to the curriculum. Our GSCE Alerts will be sent out to promote the updates - so please keep looking.

GSCE Training Platform – roll out 2020 / 21:

In the first phase of our training launch we have given site access to schools, colleges and early years settings. We have recently also included all GCC staff and social workers and all NHS GPs and GP Practice Nurses. These groups are able to book onto the library of safeguarding e-learning courses and onto the virtual ‘live’ training.

PLEASE FOLLOW YOUR ORGANISATIONAL GUIDANCE WHEN REGISTERING ONTO THE SYSTEM.

In the second phase of the launch we are opening up enrolment, to our other Health colleagues, Police and the private, independent and voluntary sector partner; and will be introducing an Annual Membership scheme for all 'relevant' agencies.

Alerts will be sent out and information posted on the GSCE website to inform practitioners when their agency or organisation has been enrolled and when their staff can register onto the system.

Please follow the link to the GSCE training: https://gsce.melearning.university/course_centre

GSCE Admin support: For any questions or queries please contact our team: gscetraining@gloucestershire.gov.uk

REMINDER:

Gloucestershire’s Levels of Intervention Guidance

Working Together to Provide Early Help, Targeted and Specialist Support for Children (including the unborn) and Families in Gloucestershire.

The Levels of Intervention Guidance has been revised following actions identified in the local Serious Case Review ‘James’ with regards to increased risk to pregnant women and children under one of domestic abuse and significant changes to the Early Help Pathway. Please find the revised document here: Gloucestershire Revised LOI Guidance

Unsafe toys from online marketplaces

A new report by the British Toy and Hobby Association (BTHA) reveals that well over half of the toys they bought from online marketplaces had serious safety failures. CLICK HERE to read more.