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.
Bedfordshire Against Violence and Exploitation (BAVEX) is the partnership campaign supported by a variety of different agencies across Bedfordshire to raise awareness of the exploitation that takes place in the county.
In a recent ‘Safeguarding in Schools’ newsletter, Andrew Hall compiled a list of useful resources to build practitioner knowledge of Child to Parent Violence and Abuse.
The scale of self-generated child sexual abuse imagery is hard to comprehend. Since the start of the pandemic, the amount of ‘self-generated’ child abuse imagery has increased dramatically.
All parents and carers need to be aware of the risks of online child sexual abuse and the scale of the issue affecting children today.
Following the death of a local resident, Bedford Borough, Central Bedfordshire & Luton Safeguarding Adult Boards, in partnership with Bedfordshire Fire & Rescue invite you to join this free webinar.
Learn about the new multi-agency approach; including guidance, pathways and personalised hoarding panel.
The UK Safer Internet Centre has announced that the theme for Safer Internet Day on 8 February 2022 is ‘All fun and games? Exploring respect and relationships online’.
The day aims to celebrate young people’s role in creating a safer internet, whether that is whilst gaming and creating content, or interacting with their friends and peers.
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.
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.
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.
