Advice and guidance to support education leaders to prioritise the safety and welfare of the children and families responding to emerging events
Checklists that can be adapted and shared for children and their families to plan safety during community events. Please cascade to your community!
The availability of illegal vapes containing spice has come to our attention because there have been a few recorded incidents of children in Bristol using them. The children affected believe they are vaping CBD or cannabis but the impact of vaping spice instead has lead to hospitalisations in some cases. Here is some information produced by Lewisham providing more information: Information-on-Adulterated-Vapes-in-Schools_Lewisham.pdf (foresthill.lewisham.sch.uk)
The Sky Project are running another online training on 'Understanding Forced Marriage and 'Honour' Based Abuse' on Thursday 27th June 12.30-1.30pm.
Termly update of local and national developments in the safeguarding field.
You will have seen media reports that the Department for Education is about to publish its draft updated statutory guidance on relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) for a consultation as early as this week. The standard consultation period for such guidance is twelve weeks, after which the government will need to consider submitted evidence before publishing final guidance at some point thereafter and providing schools with adequate time to implement the changes. This is in line with its commitment to review the guidance every three years.
The government has recently published a new guidance document helping schools to prepare for serious incidents. Although schools are often encouraged to consider potential threats from external sources, two recent serious incidents in south Wales and Sheffield remind us that threats can come from inside the school too.
The Department for Education is consulting on proposals to strengthen protections for children in unregistered alternative provision settings.
Materials from the most recent slides from DSL networks.
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We are excited to announce the date of our next GCP2 Practice Surgery – Thursday 20th June! This session will provide a refresher on scoring GCP2 in practice.
You are not Alone! Come along to our GCP2 Practice Surgery and join other colleagues using the tool – this is a fantastic opportunity to ask GCP2 questions and share ideas with other practitioners from around the UK.
Life Lessons have partnered with the NSPCC in order to support schools with safeguarding and behaviour across the UK and that we are well placed to support your school.
The National Crime Agency has issued an alert to hundreds of thousands of education professionals following a considerable increase in global cases of financially motivated sexual extortion – a type of online blackmail widely known as ‘sextortion’.
Termly update of local and national developments in the safeguarding field.
An update of upcoming courses from the Keeping Bristol Safe Partnership April 2024
Free online parenting courses are available to help parents and carers understand their children's feelings better and how they can support their children through the years as they develop and grow.
Separating parents can now download a free app to help them self--manage their separation. manage their separation.
From 19th August 2024, there will be new regulations for schools in the next stage of the government’s attendance drive. The sharing of daily school registers will form a new world-leading attendance data set that will help schools spot and support children displaying worrying trends of persistent absence or those in danger of becoming missing in education.
The IWF and NSPCC say tech platforms must do more to protect children online as confirmed sextortion cases soar. Article and resources to support the Report Remove Tool.
This call for evidence is therefore deliberately broad and seeks to reflect areas and issues that have been shared by school and college safeguarding professionals, or where wider systemic changes mean we have an opportunity to better align school and college safeguarding policy, including the findings of Ofsted's ‘Big Listen.’