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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, get in touch with Stephen Winship in the Business Unit - stephen.winship@durham.gov.uk
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In this edition: Safeguarding Week feedback I New Ofsted Strategy 2022-27 I Mental Health Awareness Week I The Changing Face of JTAI I and more...
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Safeguarding Week April 2022 - How did it go??
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Safeguarding Week took place from 4-8 April with 4 bitesize workshops each day covering a variety of topics. The workshops were well attended from all agencies across the partnership. We had 211 evaluations returned which contained very positive responses and analysis on the sessions, in terms of both impact on practice and the satisfaction on what was delivered.
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Ofsted has released a five-year strategy detailing its goals to raise standards in education and children’s social care. The strategy sets out the introduction of a more risk-based and proportionate approach to regulation and inspection to help keep children safer. The report highlights a number of areas of concern, including: online harm, the prevalence of peer-on-peer sexual harassment and unregistered settings where children may be cared for in unsafe environments. Ofsted aim to inform safeguarding practices through the measures outlined in the strategy, and identify systemic safeguarding issues.
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Children & Young People’s Mental Health Awareness Networking Event - 9 May 2022
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This is an opportunity at the start of Mental Health Awareness Week (9-15 May), to attend an event run by Investing in Children, to find out what mental health and emotional well being support is available for those working with young people and families in County Durham, as well as young people and families themselves.
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Mental Health Awareness Week:
9 – 15 May 2022
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Mental Health Awareness Week is an annual event when there is an opportunity for the whole of the UK to focus on achieving good mental health. The Mental Health Foundation started the event 21 years ago. This year’s theme is loneliness. There is more information on the campaign website:
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The Changing Face of JTAI's
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On 28 March 2022, Ofsted, CQC and HMICFRS have announced the restart of their programme of joint targeted area inspections (JTAIs).
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From April 2022, the inspectorates will carry out 2 types of JTAI:
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New guidance will be published each year when the focus of future thematic JTAI's is announced.
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There are 2 new courses added to our e-Learning platform ‘Me Learning’. Educational Neglect and Introduction to Child Protection Conferences. You can access these courses as well as our catalogue of other courses by logging into your Me Learning account or by self-registering via this link Course centre - Durham SCP (melearning.university)
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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. Our Training Coordinator Amy Armstrong continually looks at enhancing the program.
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We are pleased to announce that bookings for the DSCP Training Programme for 2022-23 is now open. The booking form provides further details of the courses currently on offer and would encourage those reading this to disseminate widely using all communication methods available to them. Follow the link
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When booking our training events you will see that the DSCP now use Microsoft Forms. This should be really straightforward for you with good functionality and links to the new website when we go live in Spring 2022, making the whole process more streamlined than before.
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National Guidance and Useful Resources
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Government guidance and reports:
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