Serious Youth Violence & Child Exploitation Conference 2024

The Somerset Safeguarding Children Partnership, Violence Reduction Partnership and Somerset Council Learning & Development team are delighted to be hosting this year’s Serious Youth Violence & Child Exploitation Conference on Monday 25th November, 9am to 4.30pm, at Taunton Racecourse. Book your place today – click here! Growing numbers of young people in Somerset are experiencing […]

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New! – Somerset Information Sharing and Consent Guidance

The Somerset Safeguarding Children Partnership are launching new Information Sharing and Consent guidance for Somerset on the SSCP website. The guidance has been produced by a multi-agency group in response to updates to the statutory guidance Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 and Information Sharing advice for practitioners providing safeguarding services for children, young people, parents and carers,

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Somerset children in care praised for their incredible achievements, courage and resilience

Somerset Annual Achievements Awards The efforts and achievements of more than 370 Somerset children and young people in care have been celebrated at this year’s Annual Achievement Awards! The event was organised by the Somerset Council Engagement and Participation team and hosted by members of the Somerset in Care and Leaving Care Council (SiCC &

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Connecting the Somerset Landscape for Early Help (Children)

Over 80 practitioners and service providers, commissioners and interested others from across Somerset came together on 18th July to start to map, learn and collaborate around the needs of our young people in Somerset. We were particularly interested in improving their resilience and to improve school attendance while raising children’s aspirations focusing on what is

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NEW: 2 hour Practitioner Workshop on Working with Separated Parents to Reduce Co-parenting Conflict

This two hour workshop is for any practitioner in Somerset who works with separated parents struggling with ongoing co-parenting conflict. This training is delivered by Ruth James (Reducing Parental Conflict Co-ordinator) who will share learning and top tips on reducing co-parenting conflict from her work with separated parents delivering Parenting Cafes and the Parenting When

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Success at Somerset’s first Non-Accidental Injury Awareness week!

The SSCP would like to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who took part in raising awareness about non-accidental injuries in Somerset. In addition, we would like to thank everyone who shared information about the support services for families across Somerset. We have been thrilled to see the amount of people engaging with the resources,

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