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Newcastle Safeguarding Children Partnership

Advice and Contacts for Children and Young People to Stay Safe

Childline

  • Get support, including 1-2-1 councillor chat, message boards, Ask Sam, SignVideo and Childline Cymru

Barnados

Fixers

  • Resources available including films, posters, audios, websites and apps

Thinkuknow

  • Help, support and advice available that targets children of different age groups. This also includes parent/ carers and children’s workforce

NYAS

  • The National Youth Advocacy Service is a UK Charity that provides advice, children’s rights and socio-legal services

FGM

  • Helps educate and raise awareness on Female Genital Mutilation

NSPCC

  • Specialises in child protection and prevention of cruelty to children

Learning from Practice

Serious Case Reviews

There are many examples of cases that have been reviewed. You can view the report here and the response from the Newcastle Safeguarding Children Partnership from a serious case review. A Joint serious case review concerning sexual exploitation in Newcastle in 2018 can also be found here.

Learning from Case Reviews

There are many resources available including:-

Practitioners & Professionals

There are a wide range of resources available for the following topic areas:-

Training for Multi-agencies

Face-to-face

Safeguarding Children (available for NHS staff)

Safe Newcastle Domestic Violence & Abuse Courses. This course is aimed at those that work in organisations that have the role in identifying domestic violence and abuse and working with victims, children and/or perpetrators)

Newcastle Sexual Health Training (Most courses are free for those living in Newcastle)

Early Years Training. This course is aimed for those that work in childcare and early years provision in Newcastle, or are childminders/ childminding assistants in Newcastle.

Online Training

These Online Training courses are free of to all agencies working in Newcastle that are members of/or affiliated to the NSCP and the NSAB, including Newcastle Childminders, Foster Carers, Nurseries, Care homes and Domiciliary agencies.

Guidance/ Resources

Vulnerability in Babies –  Regional Learning Resources

Joint Training Evaluation Framework

Assessment Diamond Narrative Training Resource

Peace, Keeping it together – A parent’s guide to coping with child sexual exploitation

Using the trauma model to understand the impact of sexual exploitation on children

Guide to therapeutic assistance for children and young people recovering from sexual abuse

University of Bedfordshire CSE films

Health Education CSE film