RCSCB E- MAIL BULLETIN – AUGUST 2015

Welcome to the August edition of RCSCB E-mail Bulletin

Let me take this opportunity to introduce myself as the new RCSCB Business Manager.

I’m looking forward to working with you all over the coming months and would be delighted to hear from you if you have any issues you wish to raise or ideas to share.

Ros Pluck

RCSCB Business Manager

If you have any comments or feedback on this bulletin or any items you would like to submit for future editions, please email me at:

Please check our Redcar and Cleveland LSCB website for regular updates and minutes from Board meetings.

www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/safeguarding

LSCB TRAINING:

DAY / DATE / TIME / VENUE / COURSE TITLE / TRAINER / COMMENTS /
Sep-15
Monday / 07-Sep-15 / 09.30 to 4.30 / Bridgeway / Safeguarding Children & YP from Child Sexual Exploitation (incorporating VEMT) / Barnardos SECOS with Police / OVERSUBSCRIBED – PLEASE REFER TO PROGRAMME FOR FUTURE DATES
Friday / 11-Sep-15 / 09.30 to 12.30 / Bridgeway / Core Level 3 - Update / Wendy Murdoch, Skills for Safeguarding / OVERSUBSCRIBED – PLEASE REFER TO PROGRAMME FOR FUTURE DATES
Monday / 14-Sep-15 / 09.30 to 4.30 / Bridgeway / Core Level 3 / Wendy Murdoch, Skills for Safeguarding / OVERSUBSCRIBED – PLEASE REFER TO PROGRAMME FOR FUTURE DATES
Wednesday / 16-Sep-15 / 09.30 to 1.00 / Bridgeway / Safeguarding Children & Young People from Physical Abuse / Sarah Stansmore, Nurse Trainer - South Tees NHS Trust and Mary Griksaitis, Child Protection Officer for Education, Middlesbrough
Tuesday / 22-Sep-15 / 09.30 to 4.30 / Bridgeway / The Impact of Parental Mental Ill Health on Parenting / Sarah Mohammed, Safeguarding Children's First Contact Advisor and Trainer, TEWV and Kellie Wigley, First Contact Team Manager, Redcar and Cleveland Children and Families.
Thursday / 24-Sep-15 / 10.00 to 11.30 / Bridgeway / WRAP - Workshop to Raise Awareness of Prevent, part of the government counter terrorism strategy under Contest / Jeff Lillystone, Cleveland Police
Friday / 25-Sep-15 / 09.30 to 12.00 / Bridgeway / COMMON ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK (CAF, known as EHA in R&C) / Jeanette Downing and Wendy Nixon, Early Years Professionals, Redcar and Cleveland
Monday / 28-Sep-15 / 09.30 to 4.30 / Bridgeway / Domestic Abuse - General Overview / Mary Griksaitis, Child Protection Officer, Middlesbrough Education, Leanne Prest, Domestic Violence Reduction Worker, Middlesbrough and Janet Husband, Early Help Lead, Redcar and Cleveland
Oct-15
Thursday / 01-Oct-15 / 09.30 to 4.30 / Bridgeway / Emotional Abuse / Neil Ventress, Independent Trainer
Friday / 02-Oct-15 / 09.30 to 1.00 / Bridgeway / Fabricated and Induced Illness / Dianne Jowsey, Safeguarding Children Nurse Trainer
Thursday / 08-Oct-15 / 09.30 to 4.30 / Bridgeway / Safeguarding Deaf and Disabled Children / Maria Bache, Assistant Team Manager and Kelly Hammond, Visual & Hearing Impaired Social Worker, Middlesbrough Children with Disabilities Team; Nick Cook, Assistant Manager, Gleneagles Resource Centre for Children with Disabilities
Friday / 09-Oct-15 / 09.30 to 4.30 / Bridgeway / Core Level 3 / Wendy Murdoch, Skills for Safeguarding
Monday / 12-Oct-15 / 09.30 to 12.30 / Bridgeway / Core Level 3 - Update / Wendy Murdoch, Skills for Safeguarding
Tuesday / 13-Oct-15 / 09.30 to 4.30 / Safeguarding Children & YP from Child Sexual Exploitation (incorporating VEMT) / Barnardos SECOS with Police
Thursday / 15-Oct-15 / 09.30 to 12.30 / Bridgeway / E-safety / Simon Finch, Northern Grid
Friday / 16-Oct-15 / 9.30 to 4.30 / Bridgeway / Neglect / Neil Ventress, Independent Trainer
Monday / 19-Oct-15 / 09.30 to 12.30 / My Place / Safeguarding Children & Young People Within a Culturally Diverse Environment / Shahda Khan, Independent Trainer

Further training dates to be confirmed and these will be included in future versions of the brochure. Look out for updates at:

LSCB Training – Redcar and Cleveland or for more information on training please contact Denise Skillcorn LSCB Training Support and Development Officer: Phone: 01642 304521 (Internal extension: 7821)

Free Guidance for parents A parents' guide to Snapchat.is now available from ConnectSafely, 2015, to support parents on using the media-sharing app Snapchat safely. This guidance covers managing security and privacy settings and further parental concerns such as sexting and harassment.

E-Learning:

For free e-learning for parents’ on Child Sexual Exploitation visit: www.safeguardingchildrenea.co.uk/keep-them-safe

The Home Office has launched a free online training package dealing with female genital mutilation (FGM), developed with Virtual College. The aim of the training is to provide an overview of FGM and professionals’ responsibilities in FGM cases. Follow the attached link and enter a few details including email address and where you work. Home Office FGM e-learning


NATIONAL NEWS

Neglect remains the most common form of child abuse across the UK. Numbers of recorded cruelty and neglect offences in England and Northern Ireland are now the highest they have been for a decade. Read more at nspcc.org.uk/howsafe
Ofsted ceases regulation of outsourced social work. The children's sector has criticised the government’s continuing drive to outsource children’s social care after Ofsted this week ceased regulation of third-party providers.
SERIOUS CASE REVIEWS
Please click on the following link to access a list of newly published and historical reports that have been identified and added to the repository during the preceding month:
Case reviews added – June2015
See the NSPCC webpages for information about the repository, research on case reviews and our full list of at a glance briefings. Our most recent briefing provides a summary of risk factors and learning for improved practice for the health sector (paediatrics and accident & emergency):
Health: learning from case reviews
If you’d like to see a list of reports from our LSCB:
Open the NSPCC library online: http://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/research-and-resources/search-library/
Under Advanced search
Select Publisher from the Search in drop-down menu
Enter Redcar and Cleveland in the Search terms box
Select Case reviews from the Media type drop-down menu:

The NSPCC is able to publish case review reports where the commissioning LSCB is not named, provided that the National Panel of Independent Experts has agreed that this is appropriate for that case, please contact them for further information: NSPCC information service 020 7650 6960.

The RCSCB E-mail bulletin is sent to all Board Members and Sub Group Chairs. While members are welcome to forward this to colleagues (where appropriate), we would ask that secondary recipients raise any queries about the bulletin, or its attachments and hyperlinks, with the RCSCB Business unit in the first instance.

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