newsletter & UPDATES.
WELCOME TO oURtwentieth edition 16th march 2018
A monthly newsletter, giving you all the latest information from all the Domestic Violence & Sexual Abuse services in Southampton.
- FAB(Feelings Affect Behaviour) course will be starting on 18th April 2018.
Wednesdays 12.30 – 2.30pm until 23rd May 2018.
James Street Church, James Street, St Mary’s SO14 1PH
This course is for women only.
- Strengthening Familiescourse will be starting on 25th April 2018
Wednesdays 5.00 – 7.30pm until 20th June 2018 (not 30th May)
James Street Church, James Street, St Mary’s SO14 1PH
This course is for parents/carers to attend with one of their children who must be aged between 10 – 14yrs.
How to refer below;
T: 023 80216003 E: W:
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Pippa will be launching a new version of the Pippa Webpage, Would you like to be part of an exciting project to potentially shape what the new Webpage/content may look like. If yes then please contact the Pippa Co-ordinator, Duncan Reade (details at the end of the newsletter). Please feel free if you cannot be part of the working group to send any ideas via email.
Two new mobile Apps are currently being developed and piloted by the Ordnance Survey and the University of Southampton. This has been designed to enable local people to report incidents of sexual harassment through mobile technology. If you would like to view the APPS; “Safe in the city” & “Safe City”. This is very much a pilot, the Council and Police are currently involved in the project.
Pippa’s Training Programme 2018………………..coming soon!
The governmentlaunchedthe public consultation “Transforming the response to domestic abuse”.We are writing this morning to re-state the ambition of the consultation and share with our valued partner’s communications material to help raise awareness and drive engagement in the consultation online.
We are committed to doing everything we can to end domestic abuse. To achieve this we need to build a society that has zero tolerance and actively empowers victims, communities and professionals to confront and challenge it. We are determined to ensure victims feel safe and supported, both to seek help and to rebuild their lives.
The consultation responses will shape the response to domestic abuse at every stage, from prevention through to rehabilitation. The questions reference the connections and provisions of cross-sector agencies and departments and reinforces the Government’s aim to make domestic abuse everybody’s business.
By consulting, we aim to harness the knowledge and expertise of charities and specialist organisations and professionals across policing, criminal justice, health, welfare, education and local authorities who deal with these issues every day. Throughout the twelve week period the government will be listening to our partners, to the many organisations and their staff working to tackle domestic abuse, and to the public. To anyone who has been affected by domestic abuse or knows of someone who has.
The attached pack links to information, to the consultation document itself and downloadable content to support you in doing two things. Firstly: participating in the consultation and sharing your views. And secondly, spreading the message and inviting others to take part in a national conversation on how we can transform the response to domestic abuse.
The Survivors Trist, based in Rugby have some comprehensive trainings sates approaching (please see links below) for further information and booking.
HICAP is a team of specialist workers who will work with people who are living with domestic abuse and find it difficult to get support.
It might be support for:
- Access to refuge or a safe house
- Talking and understanding what is going on
- Support for TRG communities
- Having guidance through legal processes
- Community engagement
- Additional support for those with no recourse to public funds
- Support for victims of Female genital mutilation or Honour based violence.
- Help with translators
This project also works with other domestic abuse services developing housing pathways to help speedy and effective move on from refuge accommodation.
Please click on the link for further information; HICAP POSTER
The NSPCCin Southampton are pleased to share that the Face to Face service and Video inter-active guidance service will be starting in January 2018.
Feedback from local partners has been an interest in services particularly for children looked after, hence we have introduced the 2 services.
Please find attached the referral form, we are currently taking referrals and If you do have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact the NSPCC duty worker on 02382 023400.
We would like to attend your team meetings to introduce the services and meet with practitioners more regularly to discuss potential referrals.
Please can you let me know convenient dates to attend team meetings?
Face to Face (F2F) service
Criteria
Looked After Children who are voluntarily accommodated by the Local Authority or subject to a Care Order.
Children/young people who are privately fostered/SGO
Children/young people who have been adopted.
Ages 10 – 18yrs
Face to Face is for children and young people aged 10–18yrs who want support with an issue that is affecting their life, emotional wellbeing or placing them at risk. Providing up to eight sessions of individual support for children/young people in care or who have been adopted, the intervention will use a solution-focused approach to explore the young person’s ideas for resolving any issues they face.
Face to Face aims to empower the child or young person by helping them to find their own answers, to reduce risk and to improve their confidence in making the right decision.
Face to Face is…
• A solution-focused approach.
• Led by the child or young person and works to build the child’s resilience so they are better equipped to cope with any future problems.
• A ‘problem free talk’ that helps the young person feel comfortable and at ease when discussing their issues with a practitioner.
By exploring positive experiences in the child/young person’s life, the sessions will help the child or young person to:
• Identify what they want to change, as well as the support they feel will keep them safe andfree from harm.
• Prevent problems from escalating.
• Devise a plan of how they can implement that change and how they will know that it is helping.
• Develop a plan to access further support if necessary and identify where additional support from local agencies with access to more specialist provision may be needed.
Video Interactive Guidance (VIG) service
Criteria
Looked After Children who are voluntarily accommodated by the Local Authority or subject to a Care Order, or under an SGO
Child/children/young people who have been adopted
Child/children/young people aged 0-18yrs
See indicators such as poor communication and/or attachment between the parent(s)/carer(s) and child/children/young people which could lead to the child/children/young people becoming isolated or rejected.
The process…
Parent(s)/carer(s)/child/children/young people will meet an NSPCC worker. They will explain more about Video Interaction Guidance and together they will agree some goals to aim for. Then over eight weeks, the NSPCC worker will meet with the family in a place that suits them. We will film the parent(s)/carer(s)/child/children/young people doing an activity together, like playing or cooking, so parent(s)/carer(s) see how they interact with their child/children/young people.
The NSPCC worker will edit the footage then a shared review will take place. Together, they will identify the positive interactions. This process highlights what they are doing well andhelps to identify what parent(s)/carer(s) can do to improve interactions with their child/children/young person.
At the end of the eight weeks, the family / carers take away the videos that shows how theirrelationship with their child/children/young person has improved. We’ll also work out a plan with the family / carers so they can keep up the progress in the future.
Following each session, the film is taken to be edited and three positive clips or stills are selected.
A ‘shared review’ between the practitioner and parent(s)/carer(s) takes place after each filming to allow the parent(s)/carer(s) to view and become aware of their own positive behaviours with their child/children/young person.
Southampton City Council (SCC) Adult Safeguarding Concern
Referral Form
Southampton City Council we have developed this new referral form for use by all partner agencies/ professionals
Emergency/replacement phones for victims of domestic abuse
Aurora are currently a partner in a new pilot project between Vodafone and Safelives called the Lifeline Project. This is initially happening in the South-East, with a handful of organisations (us being one of them) on board and trialling the initiative, with a view to evaluating it and possibly/hopefully rolling it out nationally at a later date.
Some of you may be aware of TecSOS phones/handsets, which has been something Vodafone has been delivering free of charge for a while, in partnership with police forces, as part of their Corporate social responsibility work – enabling victims to be issued a phone that connects to the police at the touch of a button .
The Lifeline project follows similar thinking, but works more broadly. Vodafone have made available a pool of Nokia SMART phones, with a SIM card and £30 of credit, available to victims to support them in remaining in touch with loved ones and/or support agencies over the pilot period. These phones can be ordered by Aurora, as a partner agency in the pilot and will arrive with us the next day. Technically the phones are to be used for Aurora clients – and for the most part they will be – but we have also been letting local partners know, in case they have an emergency situation where one of the phones would really help (it seems silly for someone locally who is in real need of a phone to go without just because they aren’t directly working with us).
So, if you have clients who are in need of a phone and do not currently have an effective means of communicating with support agencies/the police/their friends and family, please do get in touch. We will need only a few details about the client (no names, just gender/age, brief circumstances) and can then order the phones online as they are needed. You would need to arrange getting them to the client but we do have a team member based at Yellow Door who commutes from Portsmouth each day so we can get the phones brought there once they have been delivered to make it a bit easier for you.
Vodafone have put no stipulations on the issue of the phones other than that they are for victims of Domestic abuse. Some circumstances might include (this is not exhaustive, just a guide I prepared for our team):
- The survivor is struggling financially and don’t have money to put credit on their phones
- Their phone isn’t working properly and this is likely to cause problems in staying in touch with people or calling for help
- Their perpetrator checks their phone (new phone could possibly be used as an alternative to which the perp doesn’t have access – this would need to be risk assessed and safety-planned for)
- Stalking clients who are worried that their phone has been compromised and want an alternative ‘clean’ phone to use.
- They are struggling emotionally and a phone with credit might support them in accessing support or being able to be in touch with support services on a more regular basis
- They are going into refuge/moving and just want to start afresh with a new number (and in this case a new phone)
- Phone has been destroyed by perp
The pilot is live for 3 months, until around mid-March 2018. Clients need to be identified before the phones are issued (ie we can’t issue phones to services without there being an identified client to give them to)
These phones are for clients to keep. Vodafone are not expecting them to be returned. The phones are locked to Vodafone so do need to be used with the accompanying sim (or another Vodafone sim). Once they are issued, they belong to the client.
Nothing is needed directly from the client – nothing to sign, and they will not be contacted by either Vodafone/Safelives, unless as a later date they want to give some feedback, which will be completely their choice.
If you want to speak to us about the pilot or request a phone, please feel free to drop me a line at or call me directly on the landline number T: 02393 878992
2005 - CIS'ters - Queens Award for Voluntary Service
Thank-you to Gillian Finch, Founder of CIS’ters whom was the guest speaker at the Pippa Forum, details below of helpline and webpage for more information on the valuable work they do.
CIS'tersHELPLINE:023 80 338080
Email:
Joint Targeted Area InspectionWednesday 14th March 2018
12.00 – 2.00pm
Conference Room 3 / An interactive workshop delivered jointly by the Children and Families Quality Assurance Unit and the LSCB which discusses multi-agency audit activity around last year's Joint Targeted Area Inspection (JTAI) themes and the impact for practice. This workshop would be beneficial for practitioners and frontline managers working with families affected by domestic abuse and / or neglect.
County Lines
Wednesday 4th April
12.00 – 1.00pm
Conference Room 3 / DI Ross Toms from the Hampshire Constabulary Missing, Exploited and Trafficked Team will be running this workshop on County Lines. DI Toms will explain how County Lines drug dealing works, the drugs involved, the ‘model’ of this type of dealing, what we know is happening in Southampton and the risk to young people and vulnerable adults. DI Ross will also explain what signs you may see that could indicate County Lines involvement, what sort of thing counts as useful as intelligence and how you share any concerns with the Police in confidence. Anyone working with young people or vulnerable adults, particularly substance users, should attend.
Self-Neglect
Wednesday 11th April 2018
12.00 – 2.00pm
Conference Room 3 / This workshop, run by Eliot Smith from Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust will cover the identification and recognition of self-neglect behaviours, the threshold for intervention, and tools for the assessment of risk. The workshop will consider how to support people who neglect themselves, the multi-agency processes in place, and an overview of the Safeguarding Adults Board’s work on addressing self-neglect in the City
Every Child a Talker
Wednesday 18th April 2018
12.00 – 2.00pm
Conference Room 3 / Jan Stevens, Early Language Consultant / Speech & Language Therapist, will present “Things you may not know about early communication & language development” …
Covering:
• The expectations around early communication development
• Children learning English as an Additional Language: how they do it
• Current advice/guidance for adults to support them
• Potential risks for children’s skill development
• Adult strategies & techniques
Fabricated and Induced Illness – respond to clinicians concerns
Wednesday 2nd May 2018
12.00 – 2.00pm
Committee Room 1 / This workshop will be run by Dr Mike Roe and will outline the spectrum of presentations of FII and consider how the multi-agency team responds when concerns are raised. There will be opportunities to discuss case scenarios
Target audience: - Social workers, police, health professionals and any other staff working in child protection/safeguarding who may identify features suggestive of FII.
Services at the NSPCC
Wednesday 9th May 2018
12.00 – 2.00pm
Conference Room 3 / The NSPCC in Southampton have recently launched 2 new services; the Face to Face service and Video inter-active guidance service for Children Looked After and Adopted children. Lucy Kimber and Matthew Corkhill will run this session to introduce the new services, outline the criteria for accessing them, how the services work and discuss potential referrals.
Sexual Health Update
Friday 18th May 2018
10.00 – 12.00pm
Conference Room 4
/ Is your knowledge up to date?
Working with young people may require you to support them to make informed choices around their sexual health. Learning some basics about the subject will allow you to support them before potentially signposting them on to a suitable service.
Come and update your Sexual Health knowledge …..
- Latest methods of contraception - what’s available, how it works
- Emergency Contraception – how and when to access…….
- Pregnancy Testing – when’s the best time, how to access this
- Sexually Transmitted Infections – What’s out there? When to screen, how to screen……
- What local services are available & how to access specialist clinics/services….
- Develop skills to support young people to achieve safe, healthy, happy relationships
The Stop Loan Sharks Project
Wednesday 23rd May 2018
12.00 – 1.00pm
Committee Room 1 / Lin Fisher from the Illegal Money Lending Team will present this workshop. The purpose of the Stop Loan Sharks session is to give staff knowledge and information about the project. The presentation will include key things to look out for in your role; will show the impact that loan sharks have on victims, associated crime in communities and how we can work together.
ALL THE ABOVE WORKSHOPS ARE HELD IN THE CIVIC CENTRE, SOUTHAMPTON. SO14 7LY
Local Safeguarding Board Team
023 8083 2995
If you would like to include and share any news, or book onto any Pippa Training please contact Duncan Reade PIPPA Development & Training Co-coordinator:
T- 02380 216014