A new BBC Three documentary takes a look at the hidden world of girls in gangs and the extent to which teenage girls are being criminally and sexually exploited.

Safeguarding Bedfordshire offers a range of learning opportunities to raise awareness and build practice when identifying and working with exploited young people. Places can be booked by logging in from our homepage.

The Department for Education has published a guide, produced by Pen Green Children's Centre, designed to help practitioners who may be supporting children that require additional help or children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.

On 23 September, the Department for Education (DfE) published ‘What to expect in the Early Years Foundation Stage: a guide for parents’ to reflect the EYFS reforms becoming statutory on 1 September.

The Food Standards Agency have issued some useful resources in the form of two posters which can be displayed in your setting where food is prepared and served to children, as a helpful reminder of how to minimise the risk of choking.

NSPCC Learning has released a podcast discussing the absence of black girl's experiences of child sexual abuse in research and practice. The podcast discusses why the experiences of black girls is missing from the research and the impact that this has on policy and practice; key findings from research; and learning to improve practice and research.

Your online reputation is the perception, estimation and opinion that is formed when you are encountered online. This could be when someone visits your social networking profile, but could also be when anyone reads a comment you posted on another profile. It could also be when someone sees your online photo albums or an image with you in it, indeed any instance or reference of you that either you posted or someone else did - what your digital footprint says about you.

Over the summer there was some media reporting about 'sweets' laced with cannabis, amongst other things. Here are some resources that you might find useful…

Ofsted have released a podcast episode looking at its recent sexual abuse in education review. Guests, including the report author, discuss how the review was carried out and what the inspectors discovered.

The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel has published a review of the circumstances involved in cases where babies under-one-year-old have been harmed or killed by their fathers or other males in a caring role.

The NSPCC has published findings from an FOI about online child sexual abuse offences. Findings include that there were over 9,742 online child sexual offences recorded by the 41 UK police forces that responded to the FOI last year; and recorded crimes increased by three quarters in the last four years when comparing data from the 39 forces who were able to provide data for both time periods.

Safeguarding Bedfordshire in partnership with the Marie Collins Foundation offers free ‘Path to Protection’ learning to practitioners working or volunteering with children and young people in Bedfordshire.

This NSPCC podcast discusses the complexities of domestic abuse and why it is a safeguarding and child protection issue. It explores the main themes that emerged from learning from case reviews briefing on domestic abuse and share what is seen in practice.

The East of England Learning Week is sponsored and supported by NHS England and Improvement.

The agenda has been created in collaboration with partners across the East Region, including Counter Terrorism Policing, Business Managers of Safeguarding Adult and Children’s Safeguarding Partnerships, Designated Safeguarding specialists from across each of the East ICSs, Fire Service, Department for Education, Local Authority and NHS Provider representatives.