NHS Nottingham City CCG have commissioned a video animation, which was co-produced with the NCSCB, aimed at citizens to encourage them to attend medical appointments, and to take children and adults they care for to their appointments. The animation is aimed at raising awareness about the consequences of missing appointments and to ensure that children and adults get the medical care that they need.
Please click here to watch the animation, and share it with citizens, colleagues, friends and family. A subtitled version of the video is also available here.
The animation is a follow-on from the Rethinking ‘Did Not Attend’ video which acted as a powerful reminder that children do not take themselves to appointments, and for practitioners to reflect on the impact of missed appointments on a child’s wellbeing.
Preventing Children from Drowning
Public Health England have
produced a resource to reduce child drowning. It addresses some key issues
around water safety and can be accessed from here. Please click on the link and then scroll down to the document.
Concerns Network
Nottinghamshire
Police have introduced a new way to improve the sharing of low-level non-emergency
intelligence concerning child sexual exploitation between partner agencies in
Nottinghamshire. An information
sharing sheet has been developed for professionals to record
information that relates to people, places, activities, or vehicles which may
be involved with or connected to CSE. Once completed the information sheet
should be sent via secure email to cnm@nottinghamshire.pnn.police.uk.
Empowering the workforce to support and improve Mental Health and Wellbeing in
Nottingham
Nottingham City Council are running a series of
sessions about mental health over a one week period.The sessions are open to everyone who works
within the Childrens and Adults Workforce in Nottingham City, including Local
Authority, Health, Police, and private, voluntary and community sector
organisations.
Places available on the following sessions:
Impact of Trauma on Mental Health and Wellbeing
Using lived experience and best practice to tackle stigma and discrimination around mental health
Building your resilience to increase your capacity to care for families
Understanding and Recognising the Signs of Anxiety in Young People
Looking After Yourself
Mothers and babies in mind - recognising and responding to mental illness in the perinatal period
Fathers, children and mental health
Self-Harm and Suicide Awareness Bitesize for Children’s and Families Workforce
Imara is a specialist service that supports children,
young people and their family following a disclosure or discovery of child
sexual abuse. Referrals are received directly from the local paediatric sexual
assault referral centre, the East Midlands Children and Young People's Sexual
Assault Service. Imara are the chosen provider of therapy for all children
under 12 and some young people aged 13-18 in Nottingham City, and specialise in
familial abuse. They also support their clients from a legal and advocacy
perspective with the CHISVA service (Children and Young People's Independent
Sexual Violence Advisor).
Imara aims to empower and promote the recovery of
children, young people and their families affected by child sexual abuse, by
offering early intervention in the form of:
Access to pre-trial therap
Specialist risk and needs assessment, and referral to appropriate support and services
Information, advice and consistent contact throughout the judicial process
Support with education, health, housing and financial concern.
In
addition, NHS England have recently published a five year Sexual Assault and
Abuse Strategy. This is a multiagency, cross government multidisciplinary
strategy that sets six objectives of which safeguarding and prevention are
priorities. Please click here to access the strategy.
The DASH RIC form was updated in July 2018 so please ensure
that you are using the most up-to-date form.
The DASH RIC form should be used by all non-police staff or
volunteers in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire who receive a disclosure of
domestic abuse.
The form allows you to assess the risk to the person
experiencing abuse and make an appropriate referral for support. To refer a
case to the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) you must complete
the form and send it securely using the contact information on the form.
Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
and NICE have developed a guide that covers the therapeutic interventions that
are most effective in helping children, young people and their families who
have experienced abuse and neglect. It also highlights the principles that
young people think practitioners should follow when they are providing support
after abuse and neglect.