On the 24th January Norfolk County Council’s Mental Health Social Care Team and St. Martins held a joint open session at Webster Court. The scheme is aimed at over 50’s with a history of drug or alcohol use and homelessness, often with a history of anti-social behaviour including hoarding. The provision is funded by housing benefit and adult social care.…
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.…
The government has published an easy read guide to the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill. Click here for the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill easy read guide. The Bill amends the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (SCIE at a glance guide), which provides a statutory framework for people who lack capacity to make decisions for themselves (it would do this by…
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have published the latest in their Learning from safety incidents series which looks at the risk of people developing hypothermia and what providers can do to keep people safe. Introducing the latest post, Debbie Westhead, interim Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care, said: “Everyone using health and social care services should expect care and…
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…