“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 »
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,
The P Pod: Helping Parents Cope with Crying – ICON Read More »
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)
The P Pod: Safeguarding Unborn Babies Through Complex Care Midwifery Read More »
This tool has been developed by Public Health in collaboration with the partnership, to support staff in Somerset to access ICON resources and training as part of NAI (non-accidental injury) prevention.
To download this document, please click the link below.
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
The P Pod: Supporting Vicarious Trauma in the Police Read More »
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
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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 »
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
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 »
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
