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We have a new page on our website to share the learning from when a child suffers a serious incident and we complete a Rapid Review on the situation. It includes detail on what a Rapid Review is and the learning from each one. We have already uploaded the learning from our most recent Rapid…
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We’ve just added some new dates for our Understanding Child Sexual Abuse Level 3 Training. For all the information about the session and to apply for a place please click 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 the week focuses on baby sleep patterns, busting baby sleep myths and helping anyone who cares for a young baby with sleep deprivation. Please help us share The Lullaby Trust advice so our…
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Are you a new Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) in an education setting or interested in becoming one? If so we have a new workshop that explores the role, it’s responsibilities and what a day in the life of a DSL is like. The session is delivered by experienced Plymouth DSLs and so content and discussions…
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We are pleased to announce that we have now released a number of dates for our core safeguarding training offer. Please see below for a list of the courses we have now published ready to take bookings: Understanding Child Protection Child Protection Refresher Working Together to Safeguard Children Having Curious and Courageous Conversations Safeguarding Children…
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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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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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Our Plymouth Young Safeguarders have been busy reminding professionals of their Ten Wishes and what they need from all of us to help keep them safe and feel valued. They want us to know that the Ten Wishes are just as relevant as they were when they developed them in 2014 but felt they didn’t…
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The Plymouth Safeguarding Children Partnership are pleased to announce that one of its partners, the NSPCC, have relaunched two online courses on managing sexualised behaviour in primary/secondary schools. 

  The NSPCC in Plymouth have just released 3 new dates for their ‘Sharing the Brain Story’ training for Plymouth practitioners. These free workshops aim to introduce participants to a cutting edge approach of using tested metaphors that explain the science of brain and child development and the impact of trauma. It aims to support…
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