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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.’

Reasonable force,  restraint & restrictive  practices in  alternative provision and special schools - key findings

Reasonable force, restraint & restrictive practices in alternative provision and special schools - key findings

The DfE commissioned Revealing Reality to carry out research to understand how special and alternative provision schools in England currently use reasonable force, including physical restraint and other restrictive practices, and to learn what these schools believe works to effectively minimise the need to use such methods.

Online Staff Prevent Awareness Training for Education

Online Staff Prevent Awareness Training for Education

The DfE continue to hold online Prevent awareness sessions for FE/skills staff. The sessions cover all of the important issues that staff need to know for Prevent .

Live Police Appeals of Critical Incidents

Live Police Appeals of Critical Incidents

Links to live investigations of critical incidents in Bristol

 

Critical Incident Support and Guidance

Critical Incident Support and Guidance

In light of the recent sad events and loss of life of children in Bristol, this page collates the support and guidance for colleagues who work in education settings. 

National attendance communications campaign: Moments matter, attendance counts

National attendance communications campaign: Moments matter, attendance counts

The Government has launched a national attendance communications campaign aimed at parents and carers. The campaign will take place January-March 2024 and remind families that moments matter, attendance counts.

Young Carers Census Letter to headteachers

Young Carers Census Letter to headteachers

Ahead of the January 2024 school census return, Carers Trust, MYTIME Young Carers & The Children’s Society have written a letter to headteachers asking for their help to ensure young carers are identified, supported and recorded in the school census return.

Webinar: New Young Carers in Schools Award Launch

Webinar: New Young Carers in Schools Award Launch

Carers Trust & The Children’s Society are delighted to announce we will be launching the new Young Carers in Schools Award on 31st January 2024.