Connect Somerset is a partnership between Somerset Council, Somerset NHS, Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprises, and Schools, Colleges and Early Years settings and is about professionals and community groups working together to help families and residents to get the help they need and to get it early, to improve their lives. “Our big aim […]
Connect Somerset: early help in the community Read More »
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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Today saw the publication of the annual roundup of activity in The P Pod 2024 Wrapped, where the SSCP Business Unit meet to discuss the activities of both they and the wider Partnership over this last year. If you’ve not heard The P Pod before it’s a great way to stay up to date with
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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
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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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