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Sessions will take place virtually via Microsoft Teams.

This training is free to attend to all agencies. A fee will apply for non-attendance.

Cancellations must be sent via email to cscptraining@coventry.gov.uk [mailto:cscptraining@coventry.gov.uk]. Declining your joining link will not be accepted as cancellation notice.

Applying for the training does not automatically mean that you will be allocated a place. Please wait for confirmation of a place from the Training Booking Team.

These workshops will use case studies to help you to use the guidance to support your decision-making in a way that increases professional confidence in managing risk and enables concerns about children to be addressed at the earliest possible stage. 

Professionals from all agencies working with children and young people have shared responsibility to keep them safe and provide an effective, efficient and co-ordinated service to support their health and wellbeing.

Promoting children’s welfare is most effective when they receive help early and at a level according to their needs. The aim is to provide early interventions for children, young people and their families that require support in order to prevent them from moving towards higher levels of need once these have been identified.

This guidance will never provide all the answers, nor will it ever take the place of talking to each other – or the exercise of sound professional judgement and good communication.

Download and print the guidance. [https://www.coventry.gov.uk/downloads/file/45177/effective-support-for-children-families]

The guidance can also be found in the CSCP Policy and Procedures manual [https://westmidlands.procedures.org.uk/page/contents].

Coventry Safeguarding Children Partnership (CSCP)

This team cannot take calls related to individual children or families. To discuss an individual or a case please call Coventry Children’s Social Care at the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) on 024 7678 8555.

Telephone: 024 7697 5477 [tel:02476975477]

Resources

We have grouped resources from the Partnership and other services onto one page to provide information and support on child safeguarding issues.

Neglect

Neglect Toolkit

We have produced a toolkit to assist professionals in their understanding of and ability to identify neglect [/downloads/download/7003/neglect-toolkit]. The toolkit contains case studies, links to further resources and details of what actions can be taken.

Neglect Learning Event 

Neglect learning event YouTube recording [https://youtu.be/sSLfD5rcS6Y]

Neglect Strategy

Neglect Conference 2021

Coventry Safeguarding Children’s Partnership hosted a Neglect conference in February 2021. The presentations were recorded and are now linked below to support further learning. Each presenter also provided a couple of questions and discussion points to support further conversation when these presentations are being watched in future training sessions.

  • Thinking about neglect - Dez Holmes, Director of Research in Practice
  • Early Help: What’s working well - Amanda Reynolds and Sharon Bolton
  • Coventry MASH: What’s working - Joy Johnson and Jim Edmonds
  • Neglect and the effect on Brain Development: What are we worried about - Dr Jo Gifford
  • Graded Care Profile 2: What needs to happen - Dawn Hodson
  • Question and Discussion Points from the Presenters [/downloads/download/6679/questions_and_discussion_points_from_presenters]

Adolescent neglect resources

Exploitation 

Child Exploitation Indicator Tool

Exploitation

Online safety

Think U Know have produced Online Factsheets for children and young people at both primary age [/downloads/file/32452/parent_online_safety_helpsheet_-_primary_age] and secondary age [/downloads/file/32453/parents_online_safety_helpsheet_-_secondary_age]. 

The Anna Freud Centre has also produced a guide for supporting children and young people in education with their mental health. [/downloads/file/32455/supporting_children_and_young_people_with_their_mental_health]

Child sexual abuse

CSA strategy

CSA resources from the Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse

Partners CSA conference

The West Midlands Paediatric Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) has provided a collection of guides and resources for professionals, parents and carers and young people [/downloads/download/7080/sexual-abuse-referral-centre-sarc-resources].

The SARC has also provided a short webinar explaining its services [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS9bjiDTU9o].

Domestic abuse

Safe to Talk - Coventry City Council's domestic abuse website

Safe to talk website [https://www.safetotalk.org.uk/]

Identifying and dealing with Domestic Abuse Learning event

FGM

Modern slavery

Raising a health/hospital alert

The myth of invisible men

We have produced an animation on the myth of invisible men. [https://youtu.be/obnWzwNFAxs]

Parenting 

The Ready, Steady, Grow! pages [http://www.coventry.gov.uk/readysteadygrow] provide parenting advice and support on a range of topics.

Directory of services that work with young parents [https://www.coventry.gov.uk/downloads/download/7178/services-for-young-parents]

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust have produced a set of webpages about mental health support in pregnancy and following the birth of a baby. [https://www.covwarkpt.nhs.uk/search/health-service/perinatal-mental-health-service-108]

Faith

Information about faith, belief and practice

Language That Cares leaflet 

ICON resources

Please view the two attached resources: 

7 golden rules on information sharing

Download and print the 7 golden rules on information sharing [https://www.coventry.gov.uk/downloads/file/43691/7-golden-rules-on-information-sharing ]

Fabricated Illness Training

Please feel free to view the Fabricated Illness Training [https://youtu.be/pkt7P6HYVOQ?feature=shared].

Private Fostering

Please feel free to read the Private Fostering poster [https://www.coventry.gov.uk/downloads/file/44981/fostering-poster ].

Overview of Domestic Abuse and Support Services 

Finding support an overview of domestic abuse and support services - YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTjPvHSZmNI] 

Publications

MASH Top Tips for a good referral

Top Tips for separated parents

Learning from other areas

Croydon

During a period of four weeks in the summer of 2017, three Croydon teenagers died in separate incidents. Croydon Safeguarding Children Board has since carried out a thematic review on Vulnerable Adolescents that was published February. 2019 The purpose of the thematic review was to determine whether there were any patterns in the children's experiences, for example where they lived, where they went to school, their family care and the multi-agency services that were provided or offered. The intention was to learn from the experiences of these children to inform future service provision. The Review resulted in five key findings and 15 recommendations.

The CSCP has produced a briefing, as the learning from the review is not specific to Croydon but has national implications [/downloads/download/5668/croydon_scb_thematic_review_vulnerable_adolescents]. Please reflect on the learning that was identified.

Family Group Conference/Lifelong links

Appropriate language guidance for professionals in relation to Child Sexual and/or Criminal Exploitation

Tet 2020 information leaflet from Barnados

Information sharing guidance

Coventry CSCP, in conjunction with Warwickshire CSCP, has produced the seven golden rules for information sharing. The guidance is available in both poster and leaflet form [/downloads/download/4461/information_sharing_guidance].

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