This approach has been agreed at every level, by all partners within Plymouth. Schools, colleges, voluntary agencies, social care, police, early years, health and everyone else are all signed up to working together, differently, to make a difference to children and young people.

The webpage with the document and links to book on the 1 hour workshop are here – http://www.plymouthscb.co.uk/building-support/

All ‘referrals’ into Gateway/MASH should now be made using the new MASH Contact form which is here – http://www.plymouthscb.co.uk/making-a-referral/

The Case Resolution protocol has been updated in line with the same values and is available here – http://www.plymouthscb.co.uk/case-resolution/

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Please click HERE to access further information.

Please note that this learning will complement the PSCP approach to deepening our workforce understanding of harmful sexual behaviour; information on which will become available in due course.

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Post Conference Event Pack.

Please click here for access to summary information and links to recorded sessions.    Sessions available here include:

• Together for Childhood – a placed based approach to preventing child sexual abuse
• Understanding, preventing and responding to people who commit sexual abuse:  Why community matters 
• Circles South West; providing specialist support and management to people who have sexually offended in the community
• Devon and Cornwall Police; preventing adult offending in the community 
• Dr Bartosz Zaniewski; harmful sexual behaviour in young men 
• Working with Sibling Abuse 
• Maree Crabbe; Making Violence Sexy? Pornography, young people and sexual abuse prevention. 
• Young Voices (Together for Childhood Plymouth)
• Donald Findlater; Stop it Now 
• Zoe Lodrick MSc, BA (Hons) Dip (psych), Dip (couns), UKCP
• Make Amends; Using restorative justice to heal and prevent harm. 

Presentations

Presentations used during the conference are available by clicking here

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The National Child Exploitation Awareness Day highlights the issues surrounding child exploitation; encouraging everyone to think, spot and speak out against abuse.  

STOP CSE – National Child Exploitation Awareness Day (stop-cse.org)

SAFEGUARDING IS EVERYBODY’S BUSINESS

As an organisation, like many others the NWG now views child sexual exploitation (CSE) through the lens of a broader understanding of child exploitation, encompassing criminal exploitation, trafficking, modern slavery and other forms of adolescent vulnerability.   This does not diminish the importance of CSE, it is critical that we take learning from the last 5 years and apply where appropriate to other forms of exploitation.

This has led the Plymouth Safeguarding Children Partnership to develop its Adolescent Safety Framework, more information on which can be found here

The NWG have chosen 5 key messages for 18 March 2021, and each of these are foundations of our approach to our Adolescent Safety Framework.

FAMILIES CAN BE SAFEGUARDING PARTNERS

THE TIME TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS WITH CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IS CRUCIAL 

EXPLOITATION AND ITS IMPACT DOES NOT STOP BECAUSE YOU TURN 18 

EXPLOUTATION IS ABOUT MORE THAN JUST CSE, THING ABOUT CRIMINAL EXPLOITATION, COUNTY LINES, TRAFFICKING AND MODERN SLAVERY 

COMMUNITIES CAN TACKLE EXPLOITATION.

Practitioners and leaders within the Plymouth Safeguarding Children Partnership are supporting the campaign by writing and sharing personal pledges on their hands #HelpingHands and #CEADay21 to help the NWG and Plymouth raise awareness of child exploitation and talk about our response.

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• The Plymouth Safeguarding Children Partnership is supporting workers who visit people’s homes to help spot possible child abuse and neglect and be alert to families who may need an extra bit of support in really challenging times. 
   
• Concerns about child abuse have soared since national lockdown measures were first introduced.  

• The NSPCC’s ‘It’s Your Call’ training will help Plymouth workers know what to do, should they have any concerns about a child or family’s welfare.

 Delivery drivers, community volunteers and those working in trades are just some of the professionals the Plymouth Safeguarding Children Partnership is asking to undertake free online training to help spot child abuse and neglect in the city. 

Joining forces with the NSPCC they aim to provide workers with knowledge on how to potentially spot signs of child abuse, through the charity’s ‘It’s Your Call’ training course.  

It can be accessed at https://bit.ly/yourcallplymouth or search ‘NSPCC It’s Your Call’ online. 

Children and young people are normally seen by lots of different adults like teachers, health and social workers and neighbours, but this has not been always been possible during lockdown. 

Over the last year children and young people have spent much more time at home and behind closed doors, meaning that some children have been at a greater risk of abuse and neglect. 

The impact of COVID on families has increased pressure on parenting and exasperated situations that for some were already difficult and many will not always know how to reach out for support. 

The NSPCC has found that concerns about child abuse have soared since national lockdown measures were first introduced – with the average monthly number of referrals from the charity’s helpline to local authorities on the issue increasing by over 100% in the South West.  

Nationally, the NSPCC helpline has received 31,359 contacts from adults across the UK anxious about child abuse or neglect, resulting in almost 2,000 referrals to agencies in the South West between April and November last year.  

The NSPCC, and the Plymouth Safeguarding Children Partnership have united to promote safeguarding children awareness training for workers who regularly go into people’s homes, such as gas engineers, taxi drivers, local authority workers and building trades.  

The NSPCC’s 15-minute interactive e-learning course, ‘It’s Your Call’ will help workers to: 

• recognise the signs of possible child abuse and neglect 
• report concerns either through your work channels, the NSPCC helpline or, if the concern is urgent, the police 
• support those who may have already witnessed signs of child abuse and provide advice 

The training, which is aimed at postal workers, delivery drivers and workers who regularly visit homes such as housing maintenance staff who are well placed to spot any emerging safeguarding concerns or signs of possible abuse and neglect.  

It can be accessed at https://bit.ly/yourcallplymouth or search ‘NSPCC It’s Your Call’ online. 

The partnerships is also hoping to raise community awareness about the increased risk to children, by using NSPCC resources, including posters and wallet cards promoting the NSPCC helpline for adults and Childline for children. 

The charity’s team of professionals working on its helpline for concerned adults and the dedicated volunteer counsellors at Childline will all play a vital role in being here for children during the current lockdown.  

Adults concerned about a child can contact the NSPCC helpline seven days a week on 0808 800 5000, or email  help@nspcc.org.uk. Children can speak to a counsellor on 0800 1111 or chat online at www.childline.org.uk. 

But if you think abuse may be happening now, contact Devon and Cornwall Police on 999 or 101. 

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Professionals

This guide has been developed to address the challenges that professionals face when working with issues of online harm and young people.   It contains information about what online harm is, the specific issues facing children and young people, and ways professionals can effectively engage with young people and their families.

Parents

In this booklet parents can find information about what online harm is and ways they can effectively help and support their children.  A useful product for professionals to use to support concerned parents.

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Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018 is the statutory guidance that transferred strategic local safeguarding arrangements from Local Safeguarding Children Boards to three new statutory partners, namely the Local Authority, Clinical Commissioning Groups and the chief office of police. This guidance permitted local arrangements that covered more two or more local authorities.     Following consultation and relevant cabinet and executive approvals it was agreed that the two existing Local Safeguarding Children Boards within Plymouth and Torbay would be replaced with one Plymouth and Torbay Joint Strategic Safeguarding Partnership, such partnership to be underpinned by proportionate strategic and operational structures that directed and promoted safeguarding practices and responses across Torbay and Plymouth.

This new multi-agency safeguarding arrangement was published, in accordance with Department for Education requirements on 29 September 2019.

Since that date the Torbay Local Authority has evaluated the suitability of this arrangement in light of the dissolution of the joint arrangement and Director of Children’s Services in January 2020, and the need to maintain the rate of improvement needed for Torbay children.   They have concluded that they need a single strategic safeguarding partnership.

The document below sets out the new multi-agency safeguarding arrangements to be implemented within the city of Plymouth.

Plymouth MASA FINAL 2020

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