WELCOME to the WSSCB Broadcast EmailMarch 2017

Follow this link to more information on how to support your school’s response and direct work with children and young people around sexting. Although this guidance is for schools, it is useful for everyone. You can also read the police response here. Although this guidance  is directed at schools it is useful for all agencies to read and use as a resource when reviewing policies and practice within your organisation.

Are you familiar with the Continuum of Need/Threshold Guidance? All LSCB training includes this tool and how to use it effectively when working with children and young people. The aim of the tool is to help practitioners identify a child’s level of need and consider whether additional support may be necessary to help them achieve their potential and keep them safe. It will be used by all agencies and teams, including MASH, and provides a common language and approach that will enable all practitioners to work together effectively and consistently.

Real Love Rocks Primary and Secondary training is nearly full! There are just a few places remaining! Real Love Rocks is a prevention programme run by Barnardo’s, that focuses on helping children and young people to think about and discuss relationships, what they are and how to keep happy and safe in them, whether that’s now or in the future. It is fully interactive with fun, animated videos that support the content of learning.

To request a place on your chosen course click on either Real Love Rocks Primary or Real Love Rocks Secondary

School nurses and other members of the health profession coming into contact with children outside of hospitals should look out for “soft signs” that may indicate abuse, according to draft guidance. A new draft guideline from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is aimed at helping more professionals who work with children recognise and respond to any form of abuse and neglect. The final guidance is expected in the Autumn.

Please click here to read the latest newsletter for Think Family and Early Help. This is where latest news, stories and articles from other areas working with Children, Young People and their families are shared. If you haven’t been receiving these emails or know someone who isn’t and would like to, please email sarah.dimmock@westsussex.gov.uk.

The Neglect Strategy has been updated and can be found on the LSCB website. Click here to read this document in full. There is also an electronic flyer version of the Neglect Strategy that has been developed to help you share information with your teams around the issue of neglect, including what this means for you as a practitioner and approaches to best practice. Click here to access the Neglect electronic flyer.

The Safer Sleeping Messages for Babies Workshop which ran on 7th March was a huge success! This 2 hour workshop was delivered by the Lullaby Trust and a Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children and was aimed at those professionals who have not previously received training around safer sleeping practices for babies under 6 months. Feedback from those who attended was extremely positive and included an increase in confidence around  sleeping positions and messages to pass onto parents and carers. Due to popular demand there will be another session coming soon. Watch this space for more details or keep an eye on the Learning Gateway!  

Prevent is designed to stop people from supporting terrorism or becoming terrorists themselves. Prevent aims to identify those susceptible to violent extremism and provide access to appropriate interventions and addresses radicalisation to all forms of terrorism, including the extreme right-wing, See our Prevent page to find out more. If you are concerned that someone is at risk of radicalisation visit our Channel page to find out more about who to contact and the support available.

Child Sexual Exploitation Updates! There is an

updated  WSSCB CSE Risk assessment Document and Behaviour Chart  Feb17 Please use this instead of your current version. A CSE High Level Flowchart has also been developed to guide you in what to do if you have concerns. New national guidance on Child Sexual Exploitation has been published. This is a definition and a guide for practitioners and decision makers working to

protect children from child sexual exploitation. Click here to visit the CSE page on our website.

There is a lot of online training available through the LSCB website. Click on the links below to take you to the appropriate online training page; Safeguarding Children, Child Sexual Exploitation, Domestic Abuse, Female Genital Mutilation, Child Trafficking, Safer Recruitment, PREVENT and Awareness of Forced Marriage

If you have any information that you think would be useful to add to future bulletins please contact me on lucy.short@westsussex.co.uk

Lucy Short, Learning & Development Officer  West Sussex Safeguarding Children Board | Location:  3rd Floor (East Wing),

County Hall, Chichester, PO19 1RQInternal: 25508 | External: 033022 25508 | Mobile: 07850 537308

lucy.short@westsussex.gov.uk