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Welcome to Linked, Durham Safeguarding Children Partnership new e-bulletin. We’ve brought together information from a number of partners and we hope you find the articles useful and informative. If you have ideas around content or potential items for inclusion moving forward, get in touch with Stephen Winship in the Business Unit.
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We are in the final stages of developing our brand new DSCP website, and once it's up and running those not already on the mailing list, will be able to subscribe to this e-bulletin direct from a dedicated page on the website. In the meantime I would ask that new individuals register their interest via dscpsecure@durham.gov.uk
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The Lucy Faithfull Foundation - Child Mortality Safety Notices - Mental Health & Wellbeing in Schools - County Lines - NCMD Annual Report
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Lucy Faithfull Foundation Campaign
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The Lucy Faithfull Foundation is the only UK-wide child protection charity dedicated solely to preventing child sexual abuse. They work closely with frontline workers and professionals to ensure children are as safe as they can be.
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The Stop It Now! Helpline opened in 2002. Since then, more than 46,000 people have contacted the helpline for support with all aspects of child sexual abuse prevention offline and online, including more than 5,000 people in the last year.
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Viewing and sharing indecent images of children online is a major problem in the UK and globally. In 2018, the National Crime Agency estimated that 80,000 people in the UK posed a sexual threat to children online. Police forces around the UK are making around 520 arrests each month relating to illegal online behaviour. Many of these arrested people go on to contact Stop It Now! to start dealing with their offending behaviour.
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Safety Notices - National Child Mortality Database
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The National Child Mortality Database has made some additions to their Safety Notices website page which include NICE Guidance on Postnatal care/bed sharing, baby sling safety and super strong batteries. More information can be found at, NCMD Safety Notices
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Mental Health and Wellbeing in Schools
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The Department for Education (DfE) has updated guidance for schools and colleges in England around mental health and wellbeing.
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The Mental Health and Wellbeing support in schools and colleges guidance now includes a list of mental health and wellbeing resources for teachers, school staff and school leaders—and the teaching about mental wellbeing guidance includes new guidance to support relationships, sex and health education curriculum planning, as part of education recovery.
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The University of Nottingham has published a research briefing looking at vulnerability and safeguarding of criminally exploited children.
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Findings from interviews with hospital accident and emergency (A&E) professionals indicate that: restrictions introduced in response to the pandemic have hindered the ability of youth workers to safeguard vulnerable young people and increased difficulties in identifying and responding to victims of County Lines; a rise in the incidence of violence, including shifts in the types of injuries and their severity; the mental health of already vulnerable children and young people has deteriorated, with indications that substance misuse and self-harm are on the rise.
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Recent Results in Durham/Darlington
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County Lines intelligence is actively reviewed and risk assessed by Durham Constabulary as well as discussed with other Regional Forces on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. This joined up approach works well and coincides with the work undertaken by the ERASE team. Cases are rag rated according to risk with those cases where a safeguarding risk has been highlighted, being prioritised to ensure children have an appropriate wraparound plan and care.
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Following a recent County Lines intensification week in May 2021 by Durham Police, a number of activities were captured in the national returns, including house searches, arrests, as well as seizure of drugs, money, vehicles and recovery of phones/lines.
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National Child Mortality Database Annual Report
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The second National Child Mortality Database Annual Report has been published. The report is based on data for children who died from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020 in England. The report offers insights based on the characteristics of the deaths analysed in order to improve outcomes for children in the future. Key findings include:
• 2% of children who died were from a White ethnic group, while 19% were from an Asian or Asian British background, 9% were from a Black or Black British background, and 7% were from a mixed ethnic background.
• There were approximately three times as many deaths of children who were resident in the most deprived neighbourhoods, compared to those from the least deprived neighbourhoods.
• 78% of child deaths occurred within a hospital setting, while 22% occurred elsewhere.
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A recommendation from the report calls for all professionals involved in planning or providing services to children who die, to use the data in the report to implement changes to address the issues highlighted.
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To read the full report use the link here.
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For the first time, modifiable factors have been analysed on a national scale which has helped to identify key areas for improvement. Across all categories of death, the most frequent modifiable factor identified was smoking by a parent or carer, followed by gaps in service provision. The below infographic provides a summary of the 11 most frequent modifiable factors identified as part of the child death review process.
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As mentioned in the previous bulletin the DSCP Training Offer is moving towards the coordination and commissioning of our multi-agency training as opposed to delivery. There are some really exciting events on the way around Child Sexual Abuse/Harm and Child Exploitation. Keep an eye out for upcoming circulations, but in the meantime here's what's available.
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