|
If you are a Neglect Champion for your organisation, you are warmly invited to attend the WSSCP Multi-Agency Neglect Champions meeting on Thursday 22nd September. This face to face event is an exciting opportunity to network with other neglect champions from across the partnership. This session will provide you with a space to share good practice, hear updates on the neglect tools and resources and also look at the challenges facing practitioners around tackling and identifying neglect. An agenda will be sent out ahead of the day. You can book your place at this event by clicking on the Eventbrite link below -
Take me to Eventbrite to book my place
Please share this information with other Neglect Champions in your organisation. Book your place now because places are limited.
|
The WSSCP training offer takes a break in August and re-starts in September, with a broad offer of courses to help practitioners improve their knowledge and confidence around a wide range of safeguarding topics. Below is a list of courses that are available for you to book onto -
- Working Together to Safeguard Children
- Working Together to Safeguard Children Refresher
- Neglect
- Working with Children and Young People in the Gypsy and Traveller Communities
- Supporting LGBT+ Children & Young People (in a safeguarding context)
- Addressing Barriers to Safeguarding Children Effectively & Appropriately
- Positive Contributions to Safeguarding Reviews
- Trauma Informed Approaches in a Multi-Agency Context
- A Basic Awareness to Trauma Informed Practice
- Domestic Abuse in Young People’s Relationships
- Domestic Abuse Risk Assessment and Management: DASH and MARAC
- Domestic Abuse – Impact on Children
- Professional Curiosity
- Working Together to Recognise and Respond to Child Exploitation
- Recognising and Responding to Child Exploitation Using a Contextual Safeguarding Approach
- Safeguarding Hot Topics (Child Sexual Abuse, Fabricated / Induced Illness and Non Accidental Injury)
- Improving Outcomes for Children Looked After (CLA)
- The Role of the LADO in Keeping Children Safe
If you would like to read the full description of the courses above and also to book your place please log onto the Learning Pool by clicking on the link below (please note you will need a user account and can use the separate link below to request one)
|
The summer holidays are nearly upon us, and for many families, this means trips away with family, time outside with friends and a break from the daily routine.
It is important to share information with parents and carers about how to keep children safe. This applies to all ages and below are a number of resources to share in your newsletters, on your display boards and during conversations with families:
|
As well as attending 'formal training' (set courses either online or face to face), it is important for practitioners to keep their safeguarding knowledge up to date in between. This ensures you are aware of any updates, changes to legislation, or information about practice review cases.
You can keep up to date in the following ways:
- Reading reports
- Accessing websites
- Signing up to safeguarding newsletters
- Sharing information in supervisions or team meetings
- Watching PowerPoint slides about new topics
- Discussing cases with your manager / colleagues to gain different perspectives and practice your professional curiosity / challenging skills
- Listening to safeguarding podcasts
The following links may be of interest you. Please click on the links to access and find out more.
|
The WSSCP has a professional log in zone as part of the WSSCP website. This platform is only accessible to professionals working with children and young people, and holds information that is not available to the general public, such as unpublished safeguarding practice reviews and information on neglect champions across the partnership. If you are a professional working with children and young people, and would like to request a username and password to gain access, please email; wsscp@westsussex.gov.uk . Please send your request using your professional email account, so that it is clear you are a professional.
|
|
|
|
|
