Every child death is a tragedy for the family and the wider community. Deaths of all children, up to the age of 18 years, need to be reviewed, taking into account all available information for each death. Reporting a child death All Local Safeguarding Children Boards are required to have a Child Death Overview Panel…
To support early years settings, the UKCIS Education Working Group has developed two documents to help early years settings managers and staff consider their practice and to take steps to safeguard both children and adults online. Safeguarding Children and Protecting Professionals in Early Years Settings: Online Safety Considerations for Managers – This guide will help managers…
5th February 2019 is Safer Internet Day 2019 and will be celebrated globally with the theme: Together for a better internet. This Safer Internet Day is bigger than ever! With more than 2000 organisations and schools across the UK getting involved to help inspire a national conversation about using technology responsibly, respectfully, critically and creatively.…
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).
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