Whilst all Safeguarding Bedfordshire and Bedfordshire Domestic Abuse class based training is suspended during COVID19, we will continue to share learning and development resources for those who work or volunteer with children, young people, families and/ or vulnerable adults in Bedfordshire.
Whilst all Safeguarding Bedfordshire and Bedfordshire Domestic Abuse class based training is suspended during COVID19, we will continue to share learning and development resources for those who work or volunteer with children, young people, families and/ or vulnerable adults in Bedfordshire.
Vanessa Bradbury, Research Assistant in the Contextual Safeguarding team, talks to Kent County Council’s Family Group Conference team managers, Clare Barton and Mark Buckingham, about the innovative work they are doing to expand Family Group Conferencing practice to include responses to young people experiencing extra-familial harm.
For many children and their families, the uncertainty and worry from the pandemic has taken a toll on their mental health.
Safeguarding Bedfordshire has a range of virtual classroom and eLearning titles covering mental health and wider safeguarding and domestic abuse themes.
The NSPCC have kept on top of all the latest government guidance from across the UK to provide answers about safeguarding during the pandemic.
The NSPCC Learning website now includes a review of some of the resources, research and training produced in 2020 to support you in protecting the children and young people you work or volunteer with during this challenging time.
“Neglect is the persistent failure to meet a child’s basic physical and/or psychological needs, likely to result in the serious impairment of the child’s health or development. Neglect may occur during pregnancy as a result of maternal substance abuse.
Once a child is born, neglect may involve a parent or carer failing to…
The festive season is now well underway, but there are lots of things that will be very different this year. With everything that’s going on, it’s important to make sure children are kept safe both online and in person. It’s not always easy to know how to spot the warning signs of abuse in both adults and children, or to know how to start difficult conversations.
New to PHE Partnerships’ schools programme, NHS approved Every Mind Matters Building connections resources aims to encourage young people in Year 6, KS3 and KS4 to discuss loneliness and provide them with self-care techniques they can use when they’re feeling lonely.
To support teachers on mental health, the Every Mind Matters tool is available on the School Zone to provide support on simple, practical advice for a healthier mind.
How do our biological systems work together to respond to chronic stress? What do these responses mean for early learning and lifelong health? And when we say that early experiences matter, what do we mean by early? This episode of The Brain Architects podcast addresses all these questions and more.
