Friday (1 February) sees the launch of the annual local Safeguarding Awareness Month which aims to raise awareness of the importance of keeping people safe by reminding everyone that the safety of individuals is everyone’s business. Safeguarding is about keeping children, young people and adults, who are at risk from abuse and neglect, safe and…
The National Crime Agency has revealed that the scale of the “county lines” trade, in which criminal networks exploit thousands of children and vulnerable adults to funnel drugs from cities to towns and rural areas, could be as much as £500 million. The majority of victims groomed into working for gangs are 15 to 17-year-old boys but children as young…
As part of The UK Safer Internet Centre, the South West Grid for Learning are delivering a number of Online Safety Live sessions across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough between the 15th and 17th May 2019. These sessions are aimed at teachers, police officers, social workers, adoption and foster professionals, youth workers and many more professionals and practitioners working with children.…
One in eight (12.8%) of children and young people aged between five and 19, surveyed in England in 2017, had a mental disorder[1] according to a major new report which provides England’s best source of data on trends in child mental health. Mental Health of Children and Young People in England, 2017, published today by NHS…
What a child sees, hears, thinks and experiences on a daily basis impacts on their personal development and welfare whether that be physically or emotionally. As practitioners we need to; actively hear what the child has to say or communicate, observe what they do in different contexts, hear what family members, significant adults/carers and professionals…
The Effective Support for Children & Families in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (Threshold) document” has been updated and will be published this Friday (16th November).
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Safeguarding Adult’s Board would like to find out about what people across the region understand about safeguarding adults at risk of abuse and neglect. This will then help us to get the right information and messages to the community and to professionals to help make Cambridgeshire and Peterborough a safer place to…
The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Safeguarding Children Board Annual Report for the period April 2017 – March 2018 has now been published. The report outlines both the activity and the contribution of the Board and its partners that has taken place during the last year. You can view or download the report from our Annual Reports page
The latest version of Working Together to Safeguard Children was published by the Department for Education on 4th July 2018. The 2018 version replaces the 2015 version and the Transitional Guidance helps explain how to move to a new system of practice reviews. The Statutory Framework sets out the legislation relevant to safeguarding and it should be read alongside the…