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Here is an example of training available to voluntary and statutory sector agencies that professionals and volunteers can access. Review what's on offer and relevant through your local safeguarding board.

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Information on our training programme which offers a wide variety of courses throughout the year to meet your needs or the needs of your staff.

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Social Care Wales: Safeguarding training

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Social Care Wales: Safeguarding training

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https://socialcare.wales/resources-guidance/safeguarding-list/safeguarding-training

Shared by Danielle Lock, Wales.

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National safeguarding training, learning and development standards

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About the national safeguarding training, learning and development standards

We've been leading on the development of the national safeguarding training, learning and development standards. The standards have been co-produced by a multi-agency national development group as well as other groups focused on specific aspects of the work.

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Examples of different roles to help organisations understand the roles in each safeguarding group.

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There are six safeguarding groups in the national safeguarding training, learning and development standards.

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Jump to content National safeguarding training, learning and development standards Due to a problem with Microsoft, please check your spam/ junk folders if you're expecting an e-mail from Social Care Wales and mark as 'not spam'/'not junk' where possible. Thank you. We've been leading on the national safeguarding training, learning and development standards.

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Online news resource that reports on research about positive and negative adverse childhood experience

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Online news resource that reports on research about positive and negative adverse childhood experience

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ACEs Too High. Shared by Francesca Sacco-Jimpson, West Sussex
Shared by Francesca Sacco-Jimpson

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TED Talk from Nadine Burke-Harris who has pioneered work exploring how childhood trauma impacts long-term health (USA)

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TED Talk from Nadine Burke-Harris who has pioneered work exploring how childhood trauma impacts long-term health (USA)

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Nadine Burke Harris: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime | TED Talk
Shared by Francesca Sacco-Jimpson, West Sussex

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Nadine Burke Harris: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime

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Childhood trauma isn't something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain.

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Short animation - An introduction to what happens in the brain after children face traumatic experiences in childhood and impact on behaviour.

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Short animation - An introduction to what happens in the brain after children face traumatic experiences in childhood and impact on behaviour.

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Childhood Trauma and the Brain (with English subtitles) | UK Trauma Council - YouTube
Shared by Francesca Sacco-Jimpson, West Sussex

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Childhood Trauma and the Brain (with English subtitles) | UK Trauma Council

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Shared by Simon Heyes in Devon, who shares the article with IVs to highlight the IV role and the support it can bring in terms of safeguarding, and reasons as to why IV provision is often overlooked.

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The Children Act 1989 was a hugely significant piece of rights-based legislation, providing a comprehensive framework for the care and protection of children. Among many changes, the act gave children in care the right to have an 'Independent Visitor' (IV) when they had infrequent contact from their parents.

The legislation defined the IV role as being to "visit, advise and befriend" a child in care with the purpose of "contributing to their welfare". The role was is intended to provide long-term support to a child in care.

From a young person's perspective, having an IV is about building a "real" relationship with someone outside the care system; a trusted adult who chooses to meet with them as a volunteer, rather than as a paid professional.; someone who will stick around into their future adult life, when other people may come and go. The role is sometimes likened to having an adult "buddy".

Despite the IV role having been established over 30 years ago, there is plenty of evidence to show that IV provision is still being overlooked by many local authorities. Figures released in response to a Freedom of Information request last year showed only 3.5 per cent of the looked-after child population in England had an IV. Ten councils had no IV service at all.

This is a significant failing, given the origin and history behind IV role.

Back in the 1980s, despite a shift away from residential care to more family-based placements, a significant proportion of children in care were still living in residential care settings. This type of accommodation housed some of the most vulnerable children in the care system. The fact that residential placements were often geographically isolated and far from home further prevented these children from accessing their familiar supports.

There was a growing awareness of the risks of abuse within residential care. Local government oversight of homes had been noted to be patchy and inadequate, and children living in institutions did not always have regular opportunities to talk to a trusted, independent adult.

It was recognised that children in care needed to be visited regularly, seen alone, and given a voice. It is within this social and historical context that the role of an "Independent Visitor" was first conceived.

When the 2008 Children and Young Person's Act was implemented it underlined the value of the IV role; it extended the entitlement criteria, so that any child in care could have an IV, if it was considered to be in their best interests.

This change had huge capacity implications for IV schemes across the country, but the new eligibility criteria were not always taken on board by Local Authorities and acted upon.

Why is it that IV provision has continued to be so overlooked? From the Pindown and Waterhouse enquiries of the 1990s to the more recent targeted sexual abuse of care-experienced children in Rotherham and Oxfordshire, the vulnerability of children in our care system has never gone away.

A major study by the NSPCC and the University of York from 2014, concluded that one in every hundred children living in care is abused every year in Britain, with abuse in residential care significantly higher than it is in foster care. The study concluded that more should be done to ensure that children in care have a strong voice and a "constant and independent source of support". This is exactly the reason that the role of IV was first created 30 years ago.

But there remains limited awareness of the IV role and the support it offers. This is why the National Independent Visitor Network has launched the Right Friend campaign The campaign aims to raise awareness, extend provision and champion the rights of children in care to access IV support.

An Ofsted report in 2012, suggested that 43% of children in care would say "yes" to having an IV if they were offered one." The report notes that young people in care often view their IV as a friend to talk to; someone who can provide them with fun, shared activities, emotional support and stability.

But IVs actually provide much more than this; they are fundamentally a "safety net" for children when things go wrong within a system that is meant to be looking after them.

As The Children Act made clear in 1989, quality IV provision is about children's rights and children's voice...but above all, it is about safeguarding.
Sheila Lupton is the manager of Wiltshire Council's IV Scheme and is a steering group member of the National Independent Visitor Network. She has a Masters Degree in Social Work from the University of East Anglia. This article is published by Professional Social work magazine which provides a platform for a range of perspectives across the social work sector. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the British Association of Social Workers.

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'A key part of The Children Act 1989 is being overlooked'

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The Children Act 1989 was a hugely significant piece of rights-based legislation, providing a comprehensive framework for the care and protection of children. Among many changes, the act gave children in care the right to have an 'Independent Visitor' (IV) when they had infrequent contact from their parents.

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Shared by Jennie Massey, Cornwall.

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The Attachment Theory: How Childhood Affects Life

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Become charity factsheet - professionals who safeguard children and young people in care

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Become charity factsheet - professionals who safeguard children and young people in care

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factsheet2_whos_who_english.pdf (becomecharity.org.uk)
Shared by Francesca Sacco-Jimpson, West Sussex

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City of York Council - Alison Cammiss Attachment training - we cover this under safeguarding.

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City of York Council - Alison Cammiss Attachment training - we cover this under safeguarding.

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Young people from Redcar and Cleveland Children in Care Council have created a short film, sharing their experiences of being in care. Blue Cabin worked with a fantastic group of young people aged between eight and 21 who attend the Children in Care Council (CiCC) in Redcar and Cleveland. Naming themselves ‘The Studio of the Fostered Heroes’, the group has produced a six-minute animated film sharing some of their own personal stories and explaining how it feels for them to be adopted, in foster care, residential care or kinship care. The film also aims to dispel what the group feels are stereotypes and misconceptions about being in care, and includes comments on some of the challenges they have faced, including moving between foster placements and answering questions about their personal lives.

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A space for all Safeguarding-related links/resources/content, following on from our TP2 review session on 28/03/23. As well as sharing the link/resource, please share what you use it for and what IV scheme you're from.

Safeguarding Training Principle is: IVs are trusted adults who act as a protective factor in the life of a child. They work in partnership with their IV service to act as a positive role model to the child and safeguard them from harm, in the context of the befriending role.

As well as sharing the link/resource, please share what you use it for and what IV scheme you're from.

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Copy of Reflective practice session Voice of the Child

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Andrea Moore from Doncaster shared that she connected with previous colleagues from Doncaster's crime prevention team to offer her volunteers a half day of CCE training incorporating a VR headset, tailored to volunteers. They also deliver this training in schools and to professionals, as well as to young people aged 15+.

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These types of abuse are extremely complex and often hidden. They occur when children and young people misplace their trust in peers and/or adults who exercise coercion over them through grooming, intimidation, debt bondage and violence for their own gains. The indicators for exploitation can sometimes be mistaken for 'normal adolescent behaviours'.

It requires professionals and the community to gain awareness, knowledge and exercise 'curiosity' to identify the abuse. Children and young people may not recognise the harm they are experiencing and may also be reluctant to talk. All agencies, professionals and the wider community need to be alert to the signs of exploitation and be able to effectively respond. More is now known about further forms of exploitation including the threat of young people being exploited by dangerous drugs networks also known as County Lines.

In South Yorkshire, there is growing evidence of the strong links between exploitation, children going missing, drugs, gangs and youth violence. Our approach to tackling the problem must be collaborative, inclusive and multiagency, supported by purposeful leadership across partnerships. We need to ensure that through collective efforts we work together to protect children.

Our CE Training programme, launched in September 2021, is delivered by Team EPIC at the Keepmoat Stadium on a monthly cycle from October 2021. The workshops are delivered in slots - morning and afternoon - and we have capacity for up to 25 participants. To book or enquire, please email CETraining@dcstrust.co.uk
Want to know more?
Call: 01302 736152
Email: epic.doncaster@dcstrust.co.uk

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These types of abuse are extremely complex and often hidden. They occur when children and young people misplace their trust in peers and/or adults who exercise coercion over them through grooming, intimidation, debt bondage and violence for their own gains. The indicators for exploitation can sometimes be mistaken for 'normal adolescent behaviours'.

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Trailer for county lines film - signpost IV's to for further info 

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Trailer for county lines film - signpost IV's to for further info 

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Kathryn Heaton Leeds IV Scheme

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New trailer for County Lines - on digital and in cinemas 4 December | BFI

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5 minute video on County Lines - interviews with professionals and YP

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5 minute video on County Lines - interviews with professionals and YP

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The is the first in a series of films about the drug smuggling business, County Lines. This film explains what County Lines is and how it effects young people across the country. These films have been made in collaboration with The University of Greenwich, Lewisham Police and The Children's Society for a project funded by the NHS Health Education England.

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Video Production Company - Magneto Films Ltd.