If you are worried about a child contact
Children First Contact Service 020 8770 6001 or cfcs@sutton.gov.uk
If out of hours call the Emergency Duty Team 020 8770 5000
If you are worried about a child contact Children First Contact Service 020 8770 6001 or cfcs@sutton.gov.uk. If out of hours call the Emergency Duty Team 020 8770 5000
Source: NSPCC Learning
Date: 12 June 2023
This Infant Mental Health Awareness Week, NSPCC Learning has collated a range of services and resources to help professionals support parents and carers to create strong bonds with their babies. These include our Pregnancy in Mind support service and Look, Say, Sing, Play early years resources.
Find out more: Infant Mental Health Awareness Week 2023
Source: Home Office
Date: 22 May 2023
The UK Government has opened a consultation on the introduction of a mandatory reporting duty for cases of child sexual abuse in England. Views are sought on: how implementing a duty to report child sexual abuse could impact children, organisations, and affected workforces and volunteers; and how different aspects could be implemented.
Read the call for evidence: Mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse: call for evidence
See also on NSPCC Learning
> Safeguarding children and child protection
Source: NSPCC Learning
Date: 28 April 2023
NSPCC Learning has published a CASPAR briefing summarising findings from two reports published as part of the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel’s national review into safeguarding children with disabilities and complex needs in residential settings in England. The briefing sets out nationally relevant findings and recommendations from the phase one and phase two reports.
Read the briefing: Safeguarding children with disabilities and complex health needs in residential settings: CASPAR briefing
Source: NSPCC Learning
Date: 20 April 2023
NSPCC Learning has published an updated Learning from case review briefing outlining risk factors and learning for improved practice around parental mental health and child welfare. The briefing, which looks at case reviews published between 2016 and 2022, highlights that professionals from adult and children’s services need to work together to safeguard children when there are signs that a parent’s mental ill-health is impacting their ability to look after their child.
Read the briefing: Parents with a mental health problem: learning from case reviews
Source: NSPCC Learning
Date: 22 March 2023
Last week’s CASPAR email mistakenly linked to the old version of the Infants: learning from case review briefing instead of the updated version. Please find the link to the new, updated briefing below.
The briefing takes key issues and learning for improving practice from case reviews featuring children under two who have been seriously harmed or killed between 2018 and 2022. The case review briefing highlights the inherent vulnerability of infants, including the dangers of unsafe sleeping and identifying when parents may be struggling to meet their infant’s needs. A point from many of the case reviews is that practitioners need training and support to understand and recognise infants’ voice and lived experience.
Read the briefing: Infants: learning from case reviews