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
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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
The Somerset Youth Forum met over Zoom in autumn 2023 to discuss why Somerset young people self-harm, and do they have the right support?​ The group considered: Young people in the group discussed that the biggest cause of self-harm is down to poor mental health and these mental health issues can take the form of depression, not being
Why are Somerset young people self-harming? And do they have the right support?​ Read More »
From Monday 12th February the Violence Reduction Partnership (VRP) started the Highlight Youth Hubs with Young Somerset in both Bridgwater and Taunton, to provide support, advice and sign posting for young people. The Taunton Hub: 3-5pm on Saturdays in McDonalds, East Street The Bridgwater Hub: 4-6pm on Fridays in Coffee#1, Fore Street The hubs are
Highlight Youth Hubs go live in Taunton and Bridgwater Read More »
Using Motivational Interviewing to Support Families Series: PART 3 of 5 Motivational Interviewing trainer Jackie Webb, joins us for episode 3 in the series Using Motivational Interviewing to Support Families, where we explore change talk vs sustain talk. In this episode we begin to delve into some of the techniques that you can use in
