ICON Week 2024 is dedicated to raising awareness about infant crying and how to manage it, supporting parents and carers, and preventing serious injuries, illnesses, and even fatalities caused by Abusive Head Trauma, often resulting from shaking a baby.ICON is a program Plymouth has embraced to provide essential information about infant crying, including coping strategies,…
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Earlier in the year we launched our Neglect Practitioners Guidance & Toolkit. Joining that is now our Child Sexual Abuse Practitioners Guidance & Toolkit. We know our children who suffer sexual abuse need us to notice them, understand how they show and tell us what’s happening to them and provide the help they need. We…
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We are really pleased to share that our new neglect strategy, practitioners guidance and toolkit is now available. The development of this work has been a truly multi-agency collaboration so thank you to everyone who contributed and we hope you will find this a valuable resource in your work with families. You can find all…
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The Department for Education has updated its information sharing advice for practitioners. The April 2024 version includes a revised 7 golden rules for sharing information along with a focus on the lawful basis upon which we can share information to keep children safe. You can find the full document HERE.
It’s #SaferSleepWeek, the annual awareness campaign around reducing sudden infant death syndrome (also known as SIDS). We’re proud to support @lullabytrust as they discuss the subject of ‘the safest place’. Please help us share The Lullaby Trust advice so our Plymouth babies can sleep safely. A helpful conversation to have with families is not just…
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Every child deserves to grow up in a safe, stable and loving home and this is at the heart of the newly updated and published statutory guidance Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023. Working Together 2023 is the multi-agency guide for all of us and frames how we come together to help, promote and protect…
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Stand-up and say ‘Enough’ to Violence Against Women and Girls The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence is an international campaign to challenge violence against women and girls. The annual campaign runs from 25 November (the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women) to 10 December (Human Rights Day). Organisations across Plymouth…
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Building Support is the agreed Partnership framework for how we understand the different levels of need families experience and how we work together with families to support children and young people, including where there are safeguarding concerns. During August and September 2023 the original document and approach, first launched in April 2022, was reviewed. Thank…
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500,000 children are estimated to be sexually abused every year and whilst it is just as common as other forms of abuse, it is less identified in our safeguarding systems. We want to support a knowledgeable, skilled and confident workforce to be able to respond to child sexual abuse. So, as part of our multi-agency…
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We’re really pleased to share that Graded Care Profile 2 (GCP2) multi-agency training is now available. GCP2 is an NSPCC evidenced based tool to support families where neglect is an issue. Responding to neglect is a key priority for us in the Plymouth Safeguarding Children Partnership and introducing this tool is part of our commitment…
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