Swindon Safeguarding Partnership

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership newsletter - 17 April 2024

• SSP/CSP multi agency training offer 2024/25
• Briefing: Child protection conferences and outcome focused plans moving forward
• Spotlight on self neglect learning from reviews
• Spotlight on self neglect policy into practice
• Other free learning opportunities for April and May
• Other learning resources: 7 minute briefs and practice briefs
• Other learning resources: Video archive
• Autism training videos
• SSP/CSP strategy, policies, procedures and guidance
• Resolution of professional disagreements

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership newsletter - 17 January 2024

• SSP/CSP Multi Agency Training Offer 2023-24
• Swindon Learning Event - 31 January 2024 from 9.30am to 1.00pm, Face to Face @ Steam Museum
• Save the date! 4 March 2024 - Safeguarding unborn babies and under 1’s virtual summit
• 7 minute briefs and practice briefs
• Video archive
• Local news and updates - SSP monthly safeguarding themes
• Contact Swindon launched on 8 January 2024. A new front door for children’s Social Care that will transform support for families
• Antii-social behaviour survey
• National items of interest
• Sign up for Newsletters

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership newsletter - 11 December 2023

• SSP/CSP Multi-Agency Training Offer 2023-24
• 7 minute briefs and practice briefs
• Video archive
• Training opportunities and resources
• 'Think Family' Practice Guidance Think family practice guidance Swindon Safeguarding Partnership (November 2023)
• Safeguarding Adults Review Summer (November 2023) now published
• Local news
• Blog Safeguarding Your Wellbeing at Work Ann Craft Trust
• Surviving Economic Abuse ( SEA) briefing document identifying the impact of life insurance policies
  on victim survivors of economic abuse

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership newsletter - 25 October 2023

• Managing Allegations: 15th November 2023 
• Trauma Awareness and Key Principles of Trauma Informed Care: 23rd November 2023 
• Identifying Safeguarding Concerns and Making Referrals: 6th December 2023 and 9th January
  2024 (child) 
• Early Help Assessment and Plan: 16th January 2024 
• Specialist Adult Safeguarding & Self Neglect: 6th February 2024 
• Revised content: Legal training 2 Best Interest Decisions, Self Neglect, DoLS & Court of Protection: 7th March 2024
• Thematic Analysis of Safeguarding Adult Reviews involving Adult Sexual Exploitation: 28th November2023 from 2.00pm to 4.00pm: Free virtual Zoom webinar
• Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Conference: 4th December 2023. Tidworth, Wiltshire.
• Law firm Bevan Brittan provide a range of health, care and regulatory law recorded webinars on topics such as Practical and Legal Guidance for Assessing Capacity
• Predatory Marriage: Daphne Franks delivered a presentation at the March DA Forum BBC File on 4 has released a new episode on school exclusions and child criminal exploitation in England
   

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 8 August 2023

• SSP/CSP multi-agency training offer 2023-24 update
• New Domestic Homicide Review webpage
• New practice briefs: Domestic abuse within families, Mental Capacity Act 16 to 17-year-olds, Trauma-informed practice
• Updated protocol for children and families moving across local authority boundaries or abroad
• Local news and updates: NSPCC Schools Service across BANES, Wiltshire & Swindon, Safer Streets Fund

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 26 June 2023

• SSP/CSP multi-agency training offer 2023-24 update
• New SSP webpage and practice brief
• Learning resources to improve practice reminder
• SSP adults large scale organisation abuse procedures
• Swindon Community Safety Partnership now have Twitter!
• Safer street’s wardens
• Anti-social behaviour (ASB) awareness week 3-9 July 2023
• Access to legal aid extended to vulnerable people
• Domestic abuse: For Baby’s Sake
• Updates to the modern slavery statutory guidance on 18 May 2023

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 22 May 2023

• SSP/CSP multi-agency training offer
• We want your views!
• The right help at the right time threshold guidance resources
• Do you want to know more about the prevent duty and channel panel?
• Amendment to controlling or coercive behaviour offence
• An introduction to Wiltshire police counter corruption unit (CCU)
• Parenting and differentiating between culture and religion
• Spotlight on self-neglect newsletter
• Serious and organised crime recording
• Learning resources to improve practice

Spotlight on Self-Neglect and Hoarding Newsletter - May 2023

• What is self neglect?
• Reasons for self-neglect and the impact on an adult’s life
• Barriers to good practice
• Engaging with people whi self-neglect
• SSP multi-agency policy and guidance on responding to self-neglect
• Multi-agency meetings
• Learning from adult safeguarding reviews
• Self-neglect webpage
• SSP training
• 7-minute briefs and practice briefs

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 24 April 2023

• SSP/CSP Multi-Agency training offer 23/24 offer
• Legal age of Marriage and Forced Marriage changes
• Controlling and Coercive Behaviour Offence update
• Learning from Swindon Safeguarding Adult Reviews
• Change to date! Online Safety Free Face to Face webinar Swindon
• Learning Resources to Improve Practice reminder
• Mental Capacity Act. We want your views!
• New Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) webpage
• Challenge and Scrutiny Young Champions Project
• Social Care Institute for Excellence updates

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 22 March 2023

• SSP/CSP Multi-Agency training offer 23/24 update
• Local child safeguarding practice reviews - Alan, Bella and Ben
• Online safety free face to face webinar
• Free introductory eLearning - Identifying and responding to intra-familial child sexual abuse
• New Self Neglect webpage
• Know more about the Prevent Duty and Channel Panel
• Examples of offensive extremism behaviour and how to act
• Oral health of young children in Swindon
• Swindon School’s leading role in making streets safer
• The ASK workshop - Assessing Suicide in Kids aged 5-14

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 28 February 2023

• SSP Multi-Agency training offer update
• Private fostering
• Prevent duty and Channel panel
• Spotlight on self neglect virtual webinar
• Spotlight on self neglect survey
• Swindon YJS inspection report
• Legal age of marriage rises in England and Wales
• The Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse - free webinars
• Practicable steps for people with communication difficulties - webinar
• Updates from PACE

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 31 January 2023

• SSP/CSP training courses
• Learning resources to improve practice
• Trauma informed training
• Listen up, speak up campaign - NSPCC
• Domestic Abuse Recovering Together (DART)
• Worried about a young person using substances? - UTurn
• Prevent and Channel
• Look closer awareness week
• Community safety serious violence duty
• CSE awareness day event

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - December 2022

• Virtual course dates released
• Video archive to view
• Learning resources to improve practice
• Surrey Heartlands animation
• Safer internet resources
• Updated policies
• Swindon Youth Strategy
• SBC Public Health update
• White Ribbon Day
• Mankind initiative update
• Shaping Our Lives update
• New Tackling Child Exploitation resources

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 31 October

• Virtual course dates released
• Supporting Safeguarding Adults week 
• Prevent Duty training
• Tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG) conference
• Wiltshire safeguarding vulnerable people partnership (SVPP)
• Free national community safety partnership virtual conference 
• Multi-agency guidance updates
• Tackling child exploitation
• Transitional safeguarding and missing young people
• Supporting male victims of domestic abuse conference

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 17 August 2022

• Virtual course dates released
• Can you hear me! - Virtual learning event
• 7 minute briefs and practice briefs
• Video archive
• Early intervention foundation
• Free online workshop
• Free webinar reminder
• Additional child protection procedures for disabled children
• Update from Mankind initiative
• Domestic Abuse Commissioner interim report

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 21 July 2022

• Challenge and Scrutiny and Young Champions Project
• Virtual courses dates released
• New video archive page
• New SSP webpage for professionals
• Free motivational interviewing partnership events
• Free webinar: Responding to and supporting victims of hate crime
• Prevent awareness
• Reminder professional disagreement and escalation
• Free presentation for professionals - cocaine anonymous

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 24 May 2022

• Spaces on SSP Virtual Course
• Free Zoom webinars
• Early Years Inclusion Training
• Free Virtual Adolescent Safeguarding Learning event
• 7 minute briefs and practice briefs
• ROTH meetings and forms update
• Save The Date! Ask For Angela Swindon relaunch

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 26 April 2022

• SSP Multi-Agency Training Offer 2022-23
• Update on spaces on SSP courses
• SSP/CSP meetings and deadlines
• Are you interested in being a Trauma Informed Champion?
• Early Intervention and Prevention Partnership Network meetings
• Adult Suicide Prevention – services available to support adults experiencing suicidal ideation
• Child Protection Basic Awareness eLearning
• Save The Date!
• Reprovide Perpetrator Programme webinar
• SSP Multi-Agency Standards for Children in Need

Risk Outside the Home (ROTH) Newsletter - Issue 1 - April 2022

Update on Risk Outside the Home (ROTH), which refers to the contextual safeguarding approach adopted in Swindon to understand and respond to young people’s experiences.

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 7 March 2022

• SSP Annual Report
• Publication of Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR) - Alison
• Publication of Local Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews – Babies with Injuries
• Update on SSP 2022/23 training offer
• Risk Outside The Home (ROTH) - Adopting a Contextual Safeguarding Approach
• Child exploitation webinar for parents/carers
• Community conversations
• National Child Exploitation Awareness Day
• #LookCloser to spot exploitation
• Swindon Domestic Abuse Forum

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 24 January 2022

• Community safety and safeguarding arrangements
• Joint community safety and safeguarding business support unit
• Young champions project
• New traning courses available to book
• Child exploitation awareness e-learning
• Find out more about the Family Safeguarding Model
• New 7-minute briefs
• National Association for Children of Alcoholics (Nacoa) short awareness sessions
• Risk outside the home (ROTH) resources for practitioners
• NSPCC learning update

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 2 December 2021

• New virtual course dates released
• Safeguarding Adults Week 2021 - Update
• SSP virtual conference - Update
• Do you want to be a Trauma Informed Champion?
• Reducing parental conflict - training opportunity
• New 7-minute briefs
• Mental capacity toolkit
• Interview with manager of the Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) in Swindon & Wiltshire
• Raising awareness of domestic abuse - 16 days of action
• NSPCC learning update

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 27 October 2021

• New virtual course dates released
• Safeguarding Adults Week 2021
• Do you want to be a Trauma Informed Champion?
• Save the dates - South West Regional Conference Opportunity
• Swindon Carers Centre Event - Carers Rights Day
• AWP Virtual Domestic Abuse Conference - ‘The Many Faces of Domestic Abuse'
• New 7-minute briefs
• SSP Adult Self-Neglect Policy
• We need your feedback!
• Update - Early Help Assessment/RF1 Digitisation projects
• Family Advisory Board needs parents/family members with lived experience of working with Swindon Childrens Social Care
• Swindon Advocacy Movement (SAM) - Self-advocacy drop-in sessions for autistic people
• Newsnight feature - Listening to Adult Survivors of Sexual Exploitation
• NSPCC learning update

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 30 September 2021

• Virtual course dates released
• Save the date! Webinar
• Do you know about private fostering?
• Reprovide Perpetrator Programme
• Free training to all staff working with children, young people and families
• New 7 minute briefs
• Teen mental health – a guide for parents
• Free online safety briefing
• SCIE
• Training opportunity
• Offending: a practice workshop
• SSP adult self-neglect policy
• Message from early help hub
• Timely submission of child protection reports
• Message from Bernice Weiss
• Message from Ceri McAteer
• Working with peer relationships in safeguarding work with adolescents
• Review published. Babies harmed by male carers.
• NSPCC Learning
• Report on complex safeguarding key messages on research

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 19 August 2021

• SSP training webpage now live
• SSP Virtual training
• New E-Learning Module for First Responders and Safeguarding Partners 
• Basic Awareness Safeguarding Adults at Risk eLearning 
• Suicide Prevention Awareness ELearning 

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 21 July 2021

• Overview of the inspection process
• Ofsted’s Findings 
• Identified areas for development and improvement
• Response to this finding

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 1 July 2021

• Covid-19, Vulnerability and the Safeguarding of Criminally Exploited Children 
• Learning from Serious Case Reviews 
• Key Messages from Research
• Level 1 Child Protection Awareness ELearning resource 
• SSP Training 2021-22 Virtual Course dates released

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 27 May 2021

• Champions Learning Programme 
• Launch of “Making Words Matter A knowledge Briefing”
• Child Safeguarding Practise Review Panel
• Safeguarding Alliance Annual Conference 
• NSPCC learning
   

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 6 May 2021

• SSP website continues to be under development
• SSP Training
• The Building A Resilient Swindon learning programme launch event
• New 7 Minute Brief
• Graded Care Profile (GCP2) Assessment Tool
• Virtual Youth and Early Intervention Forums
• National County Lines Coordination Centre
• Sharing information/intelligence with Wiltshire Police
• Child Protection During the Perinatal Period: Assessment and Practice
• Analysis of Safeguarding Adults Reviews targeted briefings
• Reminder of Services Offered Swindon NSPCC
• Useful Resources
• Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
• Online webinar recording – Introduction of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS)
• NSPCC Learning
• Swindon VX

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 24 April 2021

• SSP website continues to be under development
• SSP Training dates
• Graded Care Profile (GCP2) Assessment Tool
• Voluntary Action Swindon presentations 
• Online webinar recording –Introduction of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS)

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 24 March 2021

• Virtual Youth and Early Intervention Forums
• Safeguarding Adolescents
• Virtual classroom
• Supervision Orders update for safeguarding partners
• Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
• Safeguarding adults at risk of harm: New research and perspectives
• Good News
• Female Genital Mutilation – Information Sharing (FGM-IS)
• Analysis of Safeguarding Adult Reviews (April 2017 - March 2019)
• Swindon and Wiltshire Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) has achieved Male Accreditation via Lime Culture
• Sibling Sexual Abuse: A knowledge and practice overview
• Guidance for safeguarding adults in care homes
• NSPCC learning

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 1 March 2021

• Practitioner Forum – Frontline Practitioners Needed!
• National Child Exploitation Awareness Day 18 March 2021
• National County Lines Coordination Centre free conference 23 & 24 March 2021
• ‘Protecting Vulnerable Persons – Learning the Lessons and Developing Policing Responses Conference’ 16 March 2021
• Huma Trafficking Foundation & SPACE online forum 23 March 2021
• Clarification regarding Keeping children safe in education (KCSiE) guidance – safeguarding training
• Social Work Week & World Social Work Day 8 - 16 March 2021
• Safeguarding Adults Useful Resources
• Early Help Useful Resources
• NSPCC Learning
• Virtual Classroom

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 9 February 2021

• SSP Website being updated
• Practitioner Forum – Frontline Practitioners Needed!
• Publication of two Safeguarding Adult Reviews
• Ofsted Focused Inspection of Swindon Children’s Services
• Healthwatch and Harbour Project Survey Report Published
• Domestic Abuse Codeword Scheme
• Information about vaccines developed for people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people
• Department for Work and Pensions Safeguarding Leader covering Swindon
• Together we can tackle child abuse
• If you think it, report it
• Practice Briefing for Sharing Learning and Improving Practice - Learning from SSP Multi-Agency Mental Health Audit  
• New SSP Adult Safeguarding Documents
• NSPCC Learning
• Virtual Classroom
• Virtual College Personal Wellbeing and Development

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 12 January 2021

• Covid Vaccination Scam
• Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018 
• Child Exploitation Practitioner Resource and SSP webpage
• Resource pack for sharing learning and improving practice – Professional Curiosity
• Graded Care Profile (GCP2) Assessment Tool
• Making Safeguarding Personal
• 7 Minute Briefs
•  NPPCC Learning
•  Virtual Classroom
•  First Light
•  Useful recourses; Safeguarding Adults

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 9 December 2020

• Safeguarding Adult Webinars
• Blog by Dr Sophie Laws
• Analysis from Safeguarding Adults Reviews
• Adult Safeguarding and Homelessness: Virtual Seminars
• 7 Minute Briefs
• NSPCC Learning
• Criminal Exploitation
• The Home Office
• IMPACT
• Countering Terrorism Policing

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 17 November 2020

• SSP Annual Report 2019-20
• First Awareness Training
• Keeping Children Safe during Community Activities, After-School Clubs and Tuition
• 7 Minute Briefs
• NSPCC Learning
• National Safeguarding Adults Week
• Cafcass
• Coercive Control

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 27 October 2020

• NSPCC Learning peer on peer sexual abuse
• Mental Health service & school
• Risk Enablement Panel
• 7 Min Brief on Mental Capacity
• SSP available training

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 5 October 2020

• Changes to Wiltshire Police Early Intervention Offer
• Social Care Institute for Excellence
• Neglect Framework and Practice Guide/Graded Care Profile 2 (GCP2)
• NSPCC Learning
• Babies cry you can cope
• Child Protection Conferences – Towards a Family Safeguarding Model
• Launch of Adult Safeguarding E-referral
• Problem Gambling in Young People
• SSP Virtual Classroom

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 23 September 2020

• Quality Assurance of Early Help Assessments
• Digital innovations in care leavers services
• Neglect Graded Care Profile 2 Virtual Training
• Virtual Courses
• Update for Child Minders on Training
• Rapid In Time Reviews
• Consultation – NICE Safeguarding Adults in Care Homes
• COVID-19 Insight Report

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 10 September 2020

• SSP Staff changes
• Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel Webinar
• SSP Virtual training
• New SSP logo
• Beyond COVID: new thinking on the future of adult social care
• Family Safeguarding Model – CP Conferences

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 10 August 2020

• SSP Staff changes
• Child Protection Conferences Update
• SSP Virtual training
• New interactive App from Children's Commissioner's Office CHLDRN
• Liberty Protection Safeguards

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 27 July 2020

• Private Fostering
• Domestic Abuse - Resources for professionals
• 7 minute briefings
• SSP Virtual Training
• The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel’s national review into sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI)
• NSPCC reports published this month
• Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) update
• Best interests decisions - A COVID 19 quick guide and a technology checklist for video calling
• Update from UK Safer Internet Centre

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 13 July 2020

• Quality Assurance of Early Help Assessments
• Mental Capacity Law and Policy
• Research in Practice
• SSP Virtual Classroom
• Home Office Modern Slavery Social Media Campaign
• Because We All Care Campaign
• SSP – Child Protection Conferences – Phase One Towards a Family Safeguarding Model
• SSP – Child Protection Conferences Update
• Carers Emergency Card Scheme (ECS)

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 29 June 2020

• Understanding Mental Illness
• Child Protection Conferences
• Adult Safeguarding Training
• Virtual Assessments
• SSP Training
• Safeguarding Adults with Dementia
• Youth Isolation 

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 15 June 2020

• Gang activity and Child Exploitation
• Swindon SEND
• Mental Health of Infants in Care
• Threshold Training & MASH (Virtual) Open Days
• Domestic Abuse
• Gillick Competence & Fraser Guidelines
• School Transitions
• Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
• Safeguarding & Housing
• Safeguarding & Covid-19
• NHS Fabulous Fortnight
• SSP training

Swindon Safeguarding partnership Newsletter - 1 June 2020

• Threshold Training
• Covid-19 & Adult Safeguarding
• Neglect – Graded Care Profile
• Safeguarding adults in ‘closed’ environments
• Domestic Abuse
• Sextortion Sexualised Phishing
• Child Protection Conferences
• SSP training

Swindon Safeguarding Partnership Newsletter - 18 May 2020

• Child Exploitation
• Domestic Abuse
• Life after Covid-19
• New Services
• SSP Training
• Referral routes for Adult Safeguarding