The Somerset Safeguarding Children Partnership and Somerset Safeguarding Adult Board will be holding VCFSE Safeguarding Network Events this summer! This is open to anyone working in a Voluntary, Community, Faith or Social Enterprise organisation in Somerset which works with children, vulnerable adults or both. Come along to find out more about the work of the […]
The Somerset Trauma Informed Network is a group of individuals and organisations who are committed to a journey of becoming more trauma informed in their practice and policy. From April 2024, you can join the Network to receive updates about new resources, upcoming training and learning opportunities! We also have information pages as part of
Exciting new developments in the Somerset Trauma Informed Network! Read More »
In this episode we speak with with Chloe Deverell, Team Manager for Child Exploitation within Children Social Care about her experience of working in this field and the importance of everyone working together to safeguard and respond to concerns relating to the exploitation of children and young people. You can find details on Child Exploitation
The Somerset Wide Integrated Sexual Health (SWISH) service provides sexual health and contraceptive support around the county. Within SWISH we have a ‘Targeted Outreach’ team who travel the county and make our services more accessible to at risk groups, such as those experiencing child exploitation. Our young people’s nurse Marina says: ‘I’ve been a Young
The National Child Exploitation Awareness Day aims to highlight the issues surrounding Child Exploitation (CE); encouraging everyone to think, spot and speak out against abuse and adopt a zero-tolerance to adults developing inappropriate relationships with children or children exploiting and abusing their peers. National Child Exploitation Awareness Day – STOP CE – (stop-ce.org)– official information (paragraph above
We want the world to unite against Child Exploitation on Monday 18th March Read More »
Somerset Violence Reduction Partnership (VRP) is part of Safer Somerset Partnership. It is a multi-agency group whose focus is to prevent serious violence in Somerset. Somerset remains a safe place to live, however knife crime and youth violence is increasing and over 300 children a year in Somerset will be considered at risk from criminal
Monday 18th March is Child Exploitation Awareness Day! Building up to this, we will be bringing you news, articles and training opportunities on this important topic. This week, we will feature articles written by agencies across the Partnership raising awareness of the work they do to protect children and young people from Exploitation, as well
We’ve recently been working on some updates to our training booking system to make it clearer which course needs to be completed when, as well as to make sure you have the best information in order to safeguard children and young people effectively. From the 1st April we will be bringing in some changes to
Somerset Safeguarding Children Partnership, in collaboration with Tri-X and the south west regional Consortium group, have updated the South West Child Protection Procedures manual and lunched it on a brand new platform for 2024! Somerset has its own site, which provides a ‘gateway’ to the shared child protection procedures for the region, in addition to
NEW! Updated South West Child Protection Procedures manual for 2024 Read More »
The new multi-agency Somerset Harmful Sexual Behaviour Protocol is a collaboratively produced partnership document that applies to all Somerset agencies. The protocol has been developed to support children who are suspected or observed displaying sexualised behaviour that may be harmful to themselves or others, and those professionals working with them. This protocol will support those
