This two part series Engaging Better with Fathers has been in the works for some time and we’ve been lucky enough to be able to do a deep dive into the topic of how services can better engage with fathers and male carers. This is an area that’s been highlighted in countless case reviews around […]
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Update on support for reducing conflict between separated parents Please see below the latest information about support for separated parents: Useful tools: New dates for practitioner training and “How to help separated parents reduce co-parenting conflict” have been added! This workshop is for any practitioner in Somerset who works with separated parents struggling with ongoing
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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The Partnership has updated the template for Pre-Birth Planning meetings as a result of a recent Non-Accidental Injuries learning review. Pre-birth Planning meetings identify the support needed around the labour, birth and stay in hospital of families who are open to Children’s Social Care. The meeting involves the family and key professionals supporting them, including
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The SSCP Training Team created this survey to ensure that the SSCP training offer is inclusive and responsive to the needs of professionals across Somerset and that we are providing you with the best offer. We would like to express a huge thank you to everyone that took the time to complete the SSCP Training
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“The Early Help Assessment is confusing! Is it a referral tool or a multi-agency assessment? “The assessment form is long winded, time consuming and creates unnecessary work. “We need a system which makes it easy to safeguard children, not makes it harder “Updating and maintaining the tool in its current format is resource heavy impacting
Being a parent is tough, especially when you have a baby who won’t stop crying and sadly over the last few years we’ve seen a huge rise in harm caused to young babies. In this episode we speak with Charlie Hull, Father Co-ordinator with Dad Matters and Ellie Wylie, Clinical Practice Educator for Public Health,
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In this episode we speak with Jayden Mills, Complex Care Midwife with Somerset Foundation Trust (SFT), about how she and the WREN Team support parents with complex needs and ensure effective safeguarding in the Pre-Birth period. If you’d like to find out more about the WREN Team please visit: The WREN team – Maternity (somersetft.nhs.uk)
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In this episode we speak with Mark Jackson, TRiM (Trauma Risk Management) Co-Ordinator for the Avon & Somerset Police who talks to us about the work he undertakes to support officers and wider police staff when they may have experienced trauma and the importance of embedding a Trauma Informed Approach throughout an organisation. Find details
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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: ‘’ve been a Young
