The SSCP in collaboration with the Violence Reduction Partnership, have created a useful webpage full of resources focused around Serious Youth Violence (SYV) in response to the JTAI inspection earlier this year. Visit the Serious Youth Violence webpage HERE The page aims to support practitioners understanding of what serious youth violence is, the factors that […]
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We are celebrating a Birthday! The P Pod was launched by Somerset Safeguarding Children Partnership in September 2023. Since this time, the fortnightly episodes have covered a wide range of Podcasts (including Trauma Informed Practice, Motivational Interviewing and ICON messaging) and spoken to services across the County alongside a wide range of other safeguarding updates!
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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The SSCP Training Team have been working hard in the background to make sure we are always improving the safeguarding training and wider opportunities to all professionals across the County, through reviewing feedback and evaluations from courses, exploring new opportunities and utilising new technologies as they arise. We wanted to take this opportunity then to
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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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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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
“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
You Said, We Did! – Early Help Assessment (EHA) Read More »
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,
Success at Somerset’s first Non-Accidental Injury Awareness week! Read More »
