GSCP Newsletter - February 2021

Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Partnership (GSCP) Website – New Website for 2021

Our new website has now been up and running for nearly a month. If you haven't already done so, please go and have a look - https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/gscp/

We have had good feedback that it is easier to access information. We are aware that a couple of useful forms are not on the new website and these will be added shortly under a new section within the Resource Library. Please email gsce@gloucestershire.gov.uk if you have any comments/ suggestions for future website updates.  

GSCP Safeguarding Children Training Update

Our MeLearning training platform is proving to be a real success. We have now added **New Dates** for the Child Protection Inter-Agency Level 3 training

Due to the popularity of this training we have now been able to add 8 new sessions, including, by request, 2 Saturdays (13th & 27th March).

If you have not already registered as a User you can do so here:

https://gsce.melearning.university/course_centre

Coming soon:

• New training dates for April - June will be added for our existing courses
• New training courses for Child Exploitation and the Toolkit, and Domestic Abuse, are being finalised and will be available in the near future.

Did you know you can store all your Training Certificates and record your CPD hours within your account on MeLearning? Under the 'History' tab' you have the option to add External Training Records keeping everything safe and in one place.

REMINDER

In February, the GSCP published our first Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review. Please CLICK HERE to read the report.

The Child Safeguarding Practice Review was commissioned by the GSCP following its scrutiny of the experiences of three young people who had been sexually exploited. Agencies from across the county, including Gloucestershire Constabulary, Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group and the County Council contributed to the review with the aim of identifying improvements to safeguarding practice and services in the county.

As part of its response to the findings of the review the GSCP has funded open access to 'Chelsea’s Story’ up to the 21^st March 2021 for all professionals in the county. The aim being to assist in raising awareness of ‘The Warning Signs of CSE’ and of the journey that young people may have been on that has resulted in them being exploited – a journey that can all too easily make it seem as though they have ‘made their own choices’ and can leave them not seeing themselves as victims and fighting against any intervention.

Click the link below to watch Chelsea’s Story –http://www.alteregocreativesolutions.co.uk/010121to310321gloucs/