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ISSUE 10 - January 2025
Ria Walsh, SCSP manager introduces our newly refreshed website.
12 February 2025 10am – 11am MS Teams
Compassionate Leadership (Workshop for Managers)
Michael West
This workshop will focus on how we can develop compassionate teamworking in the workplace. It will review research and outstanding practice at four levels:
Individual team members: focusing particularly on team member effectiveness which is dependent upon an ethos of team member self-compassion
- Intra-team examining relationships between team members and how to ensure effective and compassionate relationships
- Team level by raising awareness of the functioning of the team as a whole in leadership, effectiveness, psychological safety, safeness, and compassion
- Inter-team which addresses the quality of inter-team and cross-boundary working, so critical in health and social care.
The workshop will draw on examples from work with teams in health and social care and research evidence accumulated over the last 40 years. It will describe the key conditions for high performance in teams with practical supports for how to continually improve these conditions. The workshop will also explore the elements that are essential for effectiveness within and between teams and for compassionate team working including wisdom, courage and commitment.
Michael West is Senior Visiting Fellow at The King’s Fund, London and Professor of Organisational Psychology at Lancaster University, Visiting Professor at University College, Dublin, and Emeritus Professor at Aston University. He is a member of the Advisory Council of The Global Compassion Coalition and of the Advisory Board of the Center for Compassionate Leadership. He supports many health and social care and other public sector organisations internationally to develop compassionate, high quality care cultures. He was appointed a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2020 for services to compassion and innovation in healthcare.
Book here
Safeguarding in Sport
The Sport Welfare Officers at Yorkshire Sport Foundation can help martial arts clubs with fulfilling the requirements of NGB affiliation or SCIMA sign-up see attached for more information. Please get in touch with their local South Yorkshire Sport Welfare Officer for further information: douglas.blackwood@yorkshiresport.org
Events for any sport clubs or activity providers
- If you would like to find out more about welcoming refugees to your club please join our free online event which is taking place on Tuesday 25 February from 6.30pm to 7.30pm. book a place here
- Sports welfare officer Douglas Blackwood will be speaking at the My Body is My Body conference in Barnsley on 25 March. More details here: https://mbimb.org/mbimb-conference
Safeguarding training for the taxi/private hire trade
 Image courtesy of Sheffield College
The Sheffield Safeguarding Children Partnership continues to support the taxi/private hire trade by quality assuring and developing training content to support drivers with their safeguarding responsibilities, in partnership with Sheffield College. In addition to this, we are currently working with Veezu to develop a training package for call handlers, who can play a key role in safeguarding by supporting drivers and responding to passengers at risk of harm. We are in discussion with national organisations, including the National Working Group Network for Tackling Child Exploitation and the Institute of Licensing, towards achieving an accredited standard for safeguarding training that is recognised nationally. A national standard would provide consistency for drivers who work cross-border and provide assurance to licensing authorities that the safeguarding training their drivers access, meets an approved criteria.
Fire Safety for Families and Practitioners
South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue offer a range of safety advice for the home and community, including a set of home safety tips for everyone and training for agencies about when and how to refer a household to them for further support.
https://www.syfire.gov.uk/safety-advice/partnerships/need-more-training/
Safeguarding Shorts for Supervisors
Are you a manager or supervisor? New for 2025 we are rolling out a series of brief training for managers and supervisors that condenses key learning with a focus on your role. They are one hour, once a month on Teams and you don’t even need to book. That said, if you’d like an electronic invitation for the series then take a moment to complete this form and you’ll get the series details and joining instructions delivered to your calendar.
Thursday 27 February 2025 9.00am-10.00am on Teams
Connecting and Engaging with Vulnerable People (Helen Wigglesworth) Join the meeting
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Tuesday 11 March 2025 9.00am-10.00am on Teams
Using the Hackett Model for recognising & responding to Harmful Sexual Behaviour (Mark Scott, Youth Justice & Katie Hewitt, SCSP) Join the meeting
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Thursday 17 April 2025 9.00am-10.00am on Teams
Supervising the completion of Graded Care Profile (Katie Hewitt, SCSP) Join the meeting
For further details contact katie.hewitt@sheffield.gov.uk
Beds For Babies Scheme
This scheme launched in June 2023 aims to tackle bed poverty so children can sleep well which will support better learning and development. A Sheffield hub is due to open this month. See links below for further details on resources for families and practitioners.
Beds for Babies scheme helps over 1,000 South Yorkshire children - BBC News
News - South Yorkshire MCA
Safer Internet Day 2025 will take place on the 11th of February 2025, with celebrations and learning based around the theme ‘Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online‘
 Updates to several procedures and two new procedures will be available in April. These will include Recognition of Significant Harm, LADO, Online Safety, Neurodivergent Parents and Radicalisation.
You can subscribe to email notification of updates here.
Local Government Association – Essential Leadership Workshop for Councillors and Safeguarding
On 17th October the Safeguarding Licensing Manager delivered a workshop to councillors and decision makers who can influence safeguarding practice in licensed settings. The workshop, which was part of a national event hosted by the Local Government Association at Warwick University, explored the safeguarding risks associated with regulated businesses and we expect business operators and local authorities to have in place, to keep children and vulnerable people safe. The session went well and will be repeated in March 2025.
Safer Sleep Week
10th-16th March in 2025
Safer Sleep Week - The Lullaby Trust
Visit the website to see training and support available for parents.
Positive parenting | Sheffield City Council
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