Working Together to Safeguard Children: Level 3
This course is designed for professionals working at Level 3 competency with responsibilities for keeping children safe. The training builds a shared understanding of risk management, roles and responsibilities, thresholds for services, and good practice when working with children, young people and families.
📅 Wednesday 17 June 🕐 12:30 - 16:30pm 📍Sunbeams Music Trust, Penrith
📅 Tuesday 29 September 🕐 12:30 - 16:30pm📍Kendal Town Hall
Spaces are limited, so please book early to secure your place.More sessions will be scheduled soon, so please keep checking our website for upcoming dates and booking information.
To sign up, please email: wfscptraining@cumbria.gov.uk with your full name, job title, organisation & email address.
Child Exploitation Network (formerly CE Champions)
We are opening up CE training and development opportunities to anyone who would like to attend. Previously available only to the CE Network (formerly known as CE Champions), these sessions will now be accessible to a wider group of colleagues to encourage greater involvement and ongoing development.
This will give more people the opportunity to refresh their knowledge, enhance their skills, connect with practitioners and subject matter experts, and strengthen their ability to support local teams effectively.
Upcoming CE Network sessions:
📅 Tuesday 14 July 🕐 12:00 - 13:00pm📍MS Teams (with guest speaker Fearless)
📅 Tuesday 22 September 🕐 10:00 - 12:00pm📍Barrow Town Hall
If you have already done level 2 CE training and would like to receive invitations for these training sessions please contact wfscptraining@cumbria.gov.uk
Together in Practice Framework
Children’s Services have launched the Together in Practice Framework; we invite multi-agency colleagues to join this session to learn more about what this means for practitioners across Children’s Services and the wider workforce who work with and support children and families in Westmorland and Furness.
This session is suitable for any practitioner or partner agency working with children and families in Westmorland and Furness. Together, we’ll explore how we can ensure a consistent, collaborative approach in the way we engage and work with children and families in our area.
📅 Wednesday 1 July🕐12:30 - 14:00pm 📍MS Teams
To sign up, please email: wfscptraining@cumbria.gov.uk with your full name, job title, organisation & email address.
Social Care Reforms Partnership Briefing
Partner agencies across Westmorland and Furness are invited to a briefing on the Families First Partnership Programme and local social care reforms.
The session will outline key principles, explore how reforms apply in practice, and provide space for partners to share insights and shape delivery. The aim is to strengthen collaboration, ensure a shared approach, and improve support for children, young people and families.
📅 Wednesday 1 July🕐10:00 - 11:00pm 📍MS Teams
Who should attend: Children’s services, health and 0–19 teams, education, youth and voluntary sector partners, and police colleagues.
To sign up, please email: wfscptraining@cumbria.gov.uk with your full name, job title, organisation & email address.
LADO Lunch & Learn
This session will cover the reporting of concerns and managing allegations, LADO Threshold criteria including low level concerns and transferable risk, and compliance and responsibility.
📅 Wednesday 24 June 🕐12:15 - 13:00pm 📍MS Teams
📅 Wednesday 24 September 🕐12:15 - 13:00pm 📍MS Teams
To sign up, please email: wfscptraining@cumbria.gov.uk with your full name, job title, organisation & email address.
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Every Life Matters are currently offering a range of free Suicide Prevention Training sessions for individuals who live or work in Cumbria. These sessions are designed to increase awareness, build confidence, and equip people with practical skills to support those who may be struggling.
Available training sessions include:
Suicide Alertness (3.5 hours – online)
Suicide Alertness (3.5 hours – face-to-face)
- 6th June – Barrow
- 16th June – Whitehaven
- 24th June – Penrith
Suicide Alertness Bitesize (1 hour – online)
- 10th September (World Suicide Prevention Day)
- 23rd September
Self-Harm Alertness (3.5 hours – online)
Safety Planning (2.5 hours – online)
To book please visit: Training in Cumbria - Every Life Matters or click HERE
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The wide-ranging Government Bill introduces provisions spanning child protection, support for children in care and care leavers, regulation of care services, school standards, attendance, and online safety. It also addresses practical issues affecting pupils’ daily lives, including free breakfast club provision, school uniform affordability, allergy safety, and the regulation of independent educational institutions.
To find out more information, please visit:
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026
The Children’s Wellbeing and School Act passes into law | Children's Commissioner for England
This thematic analysis, commissioned by the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel, examines multi-agency responses to child neglect in cases of serious harm or death. Drawing primarily on extensive stakeholder engagement, an accompanying literature review, and a qualitative content analysis of 100 rapid reviews and 34 LCSPRs that have been considered by Panel, it explores how neglect is defined, identified, and addressed in England.
Explore The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panels Neglect topic in the Learning hub for resources, short videos, posters and bite‑sized learning to support practice.
Or visit their website at: Child neglect: A thematic analysis | Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
The UK Government has issued its formal response to the Domestic Abuse Commissioner’s report into how learnings from DHRs/DARDRs.
The report made several proposals to government on how it could improve the independent oversight of recommendations stemming from DARDRs to better implement learnings, so these tragic deaths do not happen again. The Commissioner also called for dedicated funding to be made available to councils to deliver the growing number of DARDRs they are needing to conduct.
Oversight is a vital part of DARDRs and in 2024, the DAC office was provided with funding to launch the Domestic Homicide Review (DHR) Oversight Mechanism pilot. Westmorland & Furness was one of the chosen pilot sites for this and I have been working with the DAC Office throughout.
Following the conclusion of the pilot, the Commissioner made three recommendations:
1️⃣ Funding for the continued piloting and national roll-out of the Domestic Abuse-Related Deaths Accountability and Oversight Mechanism.
This recommendation was partially accepted. The Home Office has, as announced on International Women’s Day, committed to funding an oversight mechanism for recommendations made as part of DHRs. It states it will work closely with the Commissioner to deliver this. This is very welcome indeed, yet as the Commissioner observes, no further detail is provided around funding or timelines.
2️⃣ Improving the Government’s response to and implementation of its own recommendations from DHRs.
This recommendation was accepted. National recommendations will be monitored across Government departments by the Home Office DHR Secretariat. Importantly, going forward, all national recommendations will also be shared with Ministerial Violence Against Women and Girls Board members, to ensure that learning from DHRs is overseen and considered by lead Ministers in all departments with recommendations to implement.
3️⃣ Providing dedicated funding to local areas to improve capacity and resourcing in the delivery of DHRs.
This recommendation was rejected on the basis that funding for DHRs is provided through the local government funding settlement. The Commissioner has called on the government to reconsider this response and to be ‘braver and bolder’ in its decision making.
The pilot has now come to an end but updated will be provided to the national DARDR Forum and I will share these with you in due course.
Alison Goodfellow, Assistant Safer Communities Manager, served as the pilot site lead for the Westmorland and Furness Community Safety Partnership and worked closely with the Domestic Abuse Commissioner’s Office throughout the pilot. More than 20 pilot sites across England tested the oversight mechanism, collectively helping to shape a process that clearly demonstrates the impact and learning that Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews can deliver.
Over the coming weeks, we will be supporting two important national awareness campaigns, providing a range of resources and guidance to help you promote key safety messages across your networks.
🌊 Drowning Prevention Week (13–20 June)
Drowning Prevention Week, led by the Royal Life Saving Society UK, is one of the UK’s largest summer water safety campaigns. As warmer weather approaches, this presents a valuable opportunity to raise awareness of water safety and help reduce preventable incidents.
Throughout the week, you will receive daily campaign content, including:
- Key safety messages and themes
- Social media assets and suggested posts
- Practical guidance on sharing water safety advice
- Resources tailored to a range of audiences
Your support in sharing these materials will be invaluable in extending the reach of these important messages.
🚜 Farm Safety Week (20–24 July)
We will also be supporting Farm Safety Week in July, which focuses on improving safety within the agricultural sector.
Agriculture remains one of the highest-risk industries in the UK, making this campaign a critical opportunity to promote safer working practices and raise awareness of common hazards.
During the week, you will be provided with:
- Daily campaign content
- Key messages and supporting statistics
- Shareable resources and guidance
- Suggestions for engaging your audiences effectively
How You Can Support
Your involvement plays an important role in the success of these campaigns. By sharing content and promoting awareness messages, you can contribute to preventing incidents and helping to keep communities safe.
Please look out for campaign materials in your inbox and support these initiatives where possible.
You can find all upcoming CPD opportunities within the CPD section of the Resources area on Pol-Ed, or via the Eventbrite page: Pol-Ed (West Yorkshire Police)
How Pol-Ed teaches emotional and physical harms of being online
📅 Monday 29 June 🕐 15:45pm
📅 Wednesday 1 July 🕐 10:00am
Using Pol-Ed to support effective PSHE
📅 Monday 13 July🕐 15:45pm
How Pol-Ed meets statutory RHSE and supports Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2026
📅 Tuesday 1 September 🕐 13:00pm
📅 Tuesday 1 September🕐 15:30pm
This session will provide an opportunity to explore likely Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2026 updates alongside the Pol-Ed team and may be particularly useful for schools using training days to review safeguarding and PSHE provision ahead of the new academic year.
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