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Advice and guidance for education settings- responding to the Southport Stabbings and Far Right Acts.

Advice and guidance for education settings- responding to the Southport Stabbings and Far Right Acts.

Advice and guidance to support education leaders to prioritise the safety and welfare of the children and families responding to emerging events

Children Affected by Parental Offending (CAPO)

Children Affected by Parental Offending (CAPO)

Free training event on the 5th September 2024

Keeping safe at community events - checklists for parents and young people - Templates

Keeping safe at community events - checklists for parents and young people - Templates

Checklists that can be adapted and shared for children and their families to plan safety during community events. Please cascade to your community!

IMPORTANT: concerns relating to Spice

IMPORTANT: concerns relating to Spice

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)

Online training on 'Understanding Forced Marriage and 'Honour' Based Abuse'

Online training on 'Understanding Forced Marriage and 'Honour' Based Abuse'

The Sky Project are running another online training on 'Understanding Forced Marriage and 'Honour' Based Abuse' on Thursday 27th June 12.30-1.30pm.

Term 6 - 2023-24  - Safeguarding in Education Briefing

Term 6 - 2023-24 - Safeguarding in Education Briefing

Termly update of local and national developments in the safeguarding field. 

PSHE Association comment on the publication of draft updated RSHE guidance for consultation

PSHE Association comment on the publication of draft updated RSHE guidance for consultation

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.

Critical Incidents - Government Guidance

Critical Incidents - Government Guidance

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.

Strengthening protections in unregistered alternative provision

Strengthening protections in unregistered alternative provision

The Department for Education is consulting on proposals to strengthen protections for children in unregistered alternative provision settings.

Term 5 - 2023-24  - DSL Network slides and materials

Term 5 - 2023-24 - DSL Network slides and materials

Materials from the most recent slides from DSL networks. 

Contents

  • Local & National News
  • Keeping Bristol Safe Partnership updates
  • Solihull Approach
  • Online Safety – Prevent and Protect
  • Multi-agency updates
  • AOB

Book Now! Graded Care Profile 2 Practice Surgery - Scoring GCP2 in Practice

Book Now! Graded Care Profile 2 Practice Surgery - Scoring GCP2 in Practice

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.

  • Has it been a while since you were trained in GCP2?
  • Or, have you recently been trained but not yet had chance to complete an assessment?
  • Is there a part of the scoring that you just don’t get?

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 and NSPCC partnership

Life Lessons and NSPCC partnership

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.

NCA issues urgent warning about ‘sextortion’

NCA issues urgent warning about ‘sextortion’

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’.

Term 5 Safeguarding in Education Bulletin - 2023-34

Term 5 Safeguarding in Education Bulletin - 2023-34

Termly update of local and national developments in the safeguarding field. 

KBSP training update

KBSP training update

An update of upcoming courses from the Keeping Bristol Safe Partnership April 2024

Understanding your child  - FREE online universal parenting courses

Understanding your child - FREE online universal parenting courses

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.

NEW Free Separated Parents App

NEW Free Separated Parents App

Separating parents can now download a free app to help them self--manage their separation. manage their separation.

School Attendance Changes - September 2024 Readiness

School Attendance Changes - September 2024 Readiness

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.

Sextortion cases soar - article from the Internet Watch Foundation

Sextortion cases soar - article from the Internet Watch Foundation

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. 

Safeguarding Children in Schools and Colleges: A Call for Evidence

Safeguarding Children in Schools and Colleges: A Call for Evidence

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.’