- Turning the curve workshop– transforming services for children and families in Shropshire
- SSCP Website Update
- Interactive webinars - Learning from Case Reviews in Shropshire – Free to attend
- Understanding Intrafamilial Domestic Abuse Learning Events
- Domestic abuse related deaths: Homicide and Suicide Learning Events
- Domestic abuse Learning Events – Why do men not come forward?
- Telford & Wrekin Safeguarding Partnership Training Newsletter
- Preventing House Fire Deaths: Learning Review Outcomes
- Shropshire Early Help Newsletter
- Child Sexual Abuse Training
- Joint Training Latest Information
- Supporting young people who self-harm and have suicidal thoughts training
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Turning the curve workshop– transforming services for children and families in Shropshire
Aim of the Workshop:
To reflect as a partnership on Shropshire’s approach to supporting and protecting children and families who need help. Sharing understanding on what is working well and what needs to change to achieve consistently good and outstanding outcomes - using the most up to date knowledge and understanding (data analysis and intelligence) to benchmark against high performing Local Authorities.
Objectives:
By the end of the workshop there will be:
- A framework for a draft multi agency whole system transformation plan.
- A commitment from all agencies to contribute to a final agreed transformation plan.
- An agreed set of ‘quick wins’ from all agencies to respond to areas of improvement that need quick impactful solutions.
- Agreed processes for follow up oversight of the transformation plan.
- A commitment to consider the associated resource implications of a whole system transformation.
Click here to book your place for the workshop
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SSCP Website Update
The SSCP website has had a refresh. We have created a Safeguarding Children Partnership section of the website where you can find out more about the Childrens Safeguarding Partnership, it’s governance arrangements and quality assurance activity, view our annual reports and find out more about our Local Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews and the learning that they have identified about our safeguarding system and practice.
We have also updated the Child Safeguarding Practice pages to include information on our work around Child Sexual Exploitation, Neglect, Child Sexual Abuse and more. This is also where you will find links to the multi-agency training and learning events that are available, the safeguarding procedures and current tools and pathways for practitioners to use in their practice with children and families. Please ensure that practitioners and mangers within your agency are aware of the SSCP website and that they familiarise themselves with the revised Childrens sections as soon as possible.
We would appreciate your feedback on the website so we can continue to update it further – you can do so through the website feedback form. Could you please also encourage your colleagues to sign up for the mailing list to receive future updates.
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Interactive webinars - Learning from Case Reviews in Shropshire – Free to attend
People in Shropshire have died, and it’s important that we learn from these cases and understand what we can all do to prevent further serious harm and deaths.
You are invited to book onto one of our one hour practitioner learning events. There are three different one-hour webinars which will be repeated between January and March 2025, which are intended to increase your knowledge, understanding and how you can make a difference in your everyday practice.
You can click on the links to register and add the date to your calendar or you can go through our Learning & Development page for information on the subjects of these learning events as well as any other courses that we are running at this time.
Please book on to these free learning events and share this update far and wide. We look forward to seeing you there.
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Understanding Intrafamilial Domestic Abuse Learning Events
These Learning Events are taking place on the following dates:
Please book on to these free learning events and share this update far and wide.
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Domestic abuse related deaths: Homicide and Suicide Learning Events
These Learning Events are taking place on the following dates:
Please book on to these free learning events and share this update far and wide.
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Domestic abuse Learning Events – Why do men not come forward?
These Learning Events are taking place on the following dates:
Please book on to these free learning events and share this update far and wide.
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Telford & Wrekin Safeguarding Partnership Training Newsletter
The Telford & Wrekin Safeguarding Partnership have released their latest training newsletter – you can read it here
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Preventing House Fire Deaths: Learning Review Outcomes
Please book onto this 50-minute Webinar on 28th February from 11:00 – 11:50
During this session you will hear the results of a learning review which I led, in conjunction with family, following the deaths of Eileen and Alan in a house fire. Their family will contribute to the session, and you will hear from Eileen’s grand-daughter Victoria, who was also Alan’s niece. Both Eileen and Alan were known, albeit briefly, to us in Adult Social Care. Victoria will tell a desperately sad story. Our hope is that we can learn from it and continue the work which we do to be curious, and to prevent fire deaths. Do find the time to join us and hear their story.
Free Webinar 28th February Preventing House Fire Deaths - Learning from family members
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Shropshire Early Help Newsletter
For the latest edition of the Early Help Newsletter, please follow this link: Early Help Update - Newsletter
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Missing Children
There are a lot of reasons why young people run away from home. You might be having problems at home or at school, or you may even be getting hurt or harmed in some way. It can feel like you've got no one to talk to, and that running away is the only option. That is not true. There are lots of people who can help.
The Missing Children page on the SSCP website has now been updated with the new national Philomena Protocol forms from West Mercia – you can this and more resources on the SSCP website.
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Child Sexual Abuse Training
The Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse are working with the Regional Safeguarding Procedures Group to support the embedding of their Child Sexual Abuse Response Pathway into our children’s safeguarding procedures. The Child Sexual Abuse Response Pathway has been developed to strengthen local safeguarding partners’ ability to identify child sexual abuse and to meet the needs of children and families, with a focus on supporting all partners to make child-focused decisions.
To enable this project to have the impact we would like and ensure a wide reach across our multi-agency workforce the Centre of Expertise have provided a list of free webinars and training for professionals who work with children in Shropshire and the West Midlands. Please ensure that this training information is made available to all relevant staff and that they are encouraged to attend so that we can ensure effective implementation of the Child Sexual Abuse Pathway in Shropshire once it goes live.
You can find the dates and further detail on the training by following this link and you can find out about other courses being run by the Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse by following this link.
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Joint Training Latest Information
The following courses have been announced by Joint Training – follow the links for more information and to book your place:
- Working with Adults who have experienced childhood trauma and abuse
- Introduction to Sexual Violence / Abuse Training
- Safeguarding Adults Awareness Training
- Safeguarding Adults Enquiry Training
- Coercive Control and Trauma Informed Practice
- Domestic Abuse: Assessing Risk
- Domestic abuse: The impact on Children and Young People
- Exploitation and Vulnerability Awareness
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Supporting young people who self-harm and have suicidal thoughts training
This workshop integrates Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) and Parts Work Therapy (Janina Fischer's TIST model) in supporting young people who engage in unsafe behaviours such as self-harm, suicidal ideation and addictive behaviours.
Click here for further information and click here to book your place
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