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Safer Internet Day 2019 - 5th February

Safer Internet Day aims to inspire a national conversation about using technology responsibly, respectfully, critically and creatively. It is a global campaign celebrated in over 140 countries around the world.

To find out more about the campaign and how to get involved watch this video, or click here to visit the UK Safer Internet Centre website.

Every Colleague Matters!

Empowering the Workforce to deliver Excellence in Safeguarding Practice

The Nottingham City Safeguarding Children Board has teamed up with Nottingham City Council for the third year running to deliver an Every Colleague Matters event which is all about safeguarding. 

This week long event from 11-15 February is open to everyone who works within the Children’s and Adults Workforce in the City of Nottingham, including Local Authority, Health, Schools, Police, Private, Voluntary and Community Agencies. 

During the event the following sessions are on offer:

• Contextual Safeguarding: What is it?
• Identifying Neglect in Younger Child and Adolescents
• Physical Abuse: Recognising the signs and how to respond
• Improving Practice: Learning from Reviews
• Safer Sleeping for Babies
• Insight into Children and Families Direct/MASH
• Impact of Trauma – Trauma Informed Practice in Nottingham City Council
• Understanding, Responding to and Effects of Child Sexual Abuse

To find out more about these sessions and how to request a place, please click here.

Safer Sleep for Babies Nottingham City Safeguarding Children Board and Nottinghamshire Safeguarding Children Board have developed the Safer Sleeping Risk Assessment Tool to support practitioners to identify if parents or carers are putting a baby to sleep in an unsafe way. A self-directed learning session has also been developed to help practitioners learn about: what guidance to give carers to ensure they are putting babies to sleep safely Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) the risk factors for SIDS Please click here to access the Risk Assessment Tool and learning session (please note that you will need to scroll to the bottom of the web page)

Escalation procedure Effective partnership working relies on an open approach and honest relationships between agencies. Sometimes disagreements occur between professionals about thresholds, roles and responsibilities, the need for action and communication.  It is important that professional disagreements are resolved quickly.  Where possible any disagreements should be resolved at practitioner level between organisations, but if this is not possible then the professionals involved should refer to the multi-agency procedure on escalation to achieve a resolution. Please click here to view the Interagency Safeguarding Children escalation procedure.

Child Protection Plan - National Statistics

The NSPCC has published a factsheet pulling together the most up-to-date statistics on children who are the subject of a child protection plan in England. The factsheet covers the number of children who are the subject of a child protection plan; the reasons children are the subject of a plan; and the age and gender of children who are the subject of a plan.

Please click here to download the factsheet.

Impact of coercive control on children

Research in Practice have published a learning resource on the impact that coercive control has on children.  It is aimed at any practitioner that works with children and families to support them in their understanding of the different ways in which perpetrators exert their control and what the consequences can be for children.

Please click here to access the resource