Termly update of local and national developments in the safeguarding field.
An update of upcoming courses from the Keeping Bristol Safe Partnership April 2024
Free online parenting courses are available to help parents and carers understand their children's feelings better and how they can support their children through the years as they develop and grow.
Separating parents can now download a free app to help them self--manage their separation. manage their separation.
From 19th August 2024, there will be new regulations for schools in the next stage of the government’s attendance drive. The sharing of daily school registers will form a new world-leading attendance data set that will help schools spot and support children displaying worrying trends of persistent absence or those in danger of becoming missing in education.
The IWF and NSPCC say tech platforms must do more to protect children online as confirmed sextortion cases soar. Article and resources to support the Report Remove Tool.
This call for evidence is therefore deliberately broad and seeks to reflect areas and issues that have been shared by school and college safeguarding professionals, or where wider systemic changes mean we have an opportunity to better align school and college safeguarding policy, including the findings of Ofsted's ‘Big Listen.’
The DfE commissioned Revealing Reality to carry out research to understand how special and alternative provision schools in England currently use reasonable force, including physical restraint and other restrictive practices, and to learn what these schools believe works to effectively minimise the need to use such methods.
The DfE continue to hold online Prevent awareness sessions for FE/skills staff. The sessions cover all of the important issues that staff need to know for Prevent .
Links to live investigations of critical incidents in Bristol
In light of the recent sad events and loss of life of children in Bristol, this page collates the support and guidance for colleagues who work in education settings.
The Government has launched a national attendance communications campaign aimed at parents and carers. The campaign will take place January-March 2024 and remind families that moments matter, attendance counts.
Ahead of the January 2024 school census return, Carers Trust, MYTIME Young Carers & The Children’s Society have written a letter to headteachers asking for their help to ensure young carers are identified, supported and recorded in the school census return.
Carers Trust & The Children’s Society are delighted to announce we will be launching the new Young Carers in Schools Award on 31st January 2024.
Have your say on the commissioning proposals for sexual health and reproductive services in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset.
The consultation closes on 28 January 2024
This bulletin has been shared with colleagues who are signed up to our mailing list for those who are working with a setting that is a relevant agency within the Keeping Bristol Safe Partnership (KBSP).
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Feeding Bristol are managing the food element of the Household Support Fund (HSF) on behalf of Bristol City Council.We have a small pot of funding to support food projects between December to April. All grants must be spent by the end of March 2024.
Beyond Therapy is the Green House’s Festival of Activism which reimagines society’s response to child sexual abuse through research, creativity, and connection. We are pleased to announce that the festival theme for 2024 is Education.
welcome to the twelfth newsletter for the Bristol area, focusing on support for couple parents or separating/separated parents who are in relationship distress.
