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Welcome to the latest edition of Linked, Durham Safeguarding Children Partnership
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e-bulletin. We’ve brought together information from a number of partners and we hope you find the articles useful and informative. There will be a new bulletin every month, so if you have ideas around content or potential items for inclusion moving forward, get in touch with Stephen Winship in the Business Unit - stephen.winship@durham.gov.uk
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Safeguarding Awareness Week I Learning from Case Reviews I Findings from the Big Ask, and much more...
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Merry Christmas to All!!
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As we come towards the end of a difficult and eventful year, can we extend to you all a relaxing Christmas with family and friends, and a safe and healthy start to 2022.
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Please note the DSCP Business Unit hours for the Christmas period are:
Monday 20th December-Thursday 23rd December, 8:30am – 5:00pm
Friday 24th December, 8.30am – 12:30pm
We then return from 8:30am on Tuesday 4th January 2022.
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Safeguarding Awareness Week, 4 - 8 April 2022
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Awareness sessions will run over 5 days between 10.30am and 2.30pm, focusing on priority areas for the DSCP. The intention is for these to be in manageable chunks of no more than 50 minutes. Some of the areas covered include dental neglect, ICON, cumulative harm, child mental health through Covid and much more....
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It is anticipated they will all be informative and of real use to you.
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Go to as many or few as you want!!.
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Look out for further circulars in the New Year as the program develops.
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County Lines
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The Local Government Association (LGA) reports that girls and young women are being deliberately and increasingly recruited into drug-dealing ‘county lines’ gangs. The LGA is calling for Violence Reduction Units to be extended to all police forces in England and Wales and for them to have five years long-term funding, rather than year-on-year commitments.
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Young parents: learning from case reviews
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In October 2021 the NSPCC published a report examining what can be learnt from Case Reviews in terms of how practitioners deal with young parents.
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Summary of risk factors and learning for improved practice around working with young parents:
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Case reviews published since 2018 suggest that practitioners don’t always fully understand the experiences and issues that might put young parents and their children at risk.
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The learning highlights that practitioners should:
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- focus on the welfare of all the children in a family, particularly when parents are children or teenagers themselves
- consider how young parents’ own experiences of abuse, neglect and trauma and other significant life events might impact their children
- think about the underlying causes of mental health issues and substance misuse when assessing families.
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The Department for Education (DfE) has announced plans to support young people at risk of being drawn into crime or gangs in England.
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The plans include: alternative provision specialist taskforces in 21 new areas to work directly with young people offering support from experts including mental health professionals, family workers, and speech and language therapists; and a three-year programme led by local schools in ten of the taskforce areas to protect young people at risk of truancy and from being permanently excluded. For more information see;
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Barnardo’s has recently published an Exploited and Criminalised Report on how children can receive the care and support they need. Read the full report below.
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Children in Care - findings from The Big Ask
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In April 2021, the Children’s Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, launched The Big Ask: a national consultation exercise with children in England to ask them about their lives and their priorities, aspirations and worries for the future. The survey was shared with a wide range of organisations working with or supporting children in care, including children’s homes, fostering organisations and Children in Care Councils. This report provides additional detail and analysis specifically focussed on children in care.
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What children and young people wanted to say to the Care Review
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CAPVA - More sessions for January 2022
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Awareness sessions delivered during November and December around Child and Adolescent to Parent Violence and Abuse (CAPVA), have proved very popular. More sessions are now available in January 22, so follow the link below to book your place.
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The DSCP Training Offer is now focused on the coordination and commissioning of our multi-agency training as opposed to delivery. A new Coordinator Amy Armstrong is now in place. There are some really exciting events around Child Sexual Abuse/Harm and Child Exploitation. Keep an eye out for upcoming circulations, and other sessions being introduced, but in the meantime here's what's available.
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When booking our training events you will see that the DSCP are no longer using Survey Monkey, but now use Microsoft Forms. This should be really straightforward for you with good functionality and links to the new website when we go live early next year, making the whole process more streamlined than before.
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