This edition includes key updates from Bristol’s Reducing Parental Conflict (RPC) programme, including:
Closure of the Supporting Inter-Parental Communication Project to new referrals (ongoing support until August)
Continued RPC funding secured for 2025–26
Free training dates for professionals (May & October)
Online tools and resources for families, including digital courses, toolkits, and animations
Communication strategies like the Speaker Listener Technique
New resources for separated families and professionals supporting them
Strut Safe is a free, volunteer-led phone service providing reassurance and support to individuals walking alone at night. Operating across the UK, trained volunteers stay on the line with callers until they reach their destination safely. Founded to promote safer public spaces, Strut Safe offers a non-judgmental, confidential, and supportive service for anyone feeling vulnerable.
For more information or to access support, visit https://strutsafe.org.
Yuno is a newly commissioned sexual health service providing free, confidential, and easily accessible support for individuals across Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire. Developed in partnership with the NHS and not-for-profit organisations, Yuno offers a streamlined approach to sexual health care, combining digital innovation with expert clinical support.
Through Yuno’s online platform and local clinics, individuals can access a range of services, including:
STI testing and treatment
Contraception, including emergency contraception for those under 25
Free condoms
Professional advice and support through telephone and in-person appointments
Health promotion and outreach for those most at risk of poor sexual health outcomes
By providing a clinically supported digital ‘front door’, Yuno ensures timely, trusted, and high-quality care for those who need it.
For more information or to access services, visit Yuno.
The National Crime Agency has launched a campaign to combat the threat posed to teenage boys by financially motivated sexual extortion - a type of online blackmail widely known as 'sextortion'. The campaign has been launched today (20 March) and will feature on social media channels including Instagram, Reddit and Snapchat.
Film Launch ‘What’s the Taboo for you?’
Highlighting the different stigmas of mental health in racialised communities. An event designed by young people to share their key messages about mental health.
Date: Thursday 10th April 2025
Venue: EP1, Frenchay Campus, UWE Bristol
Time: Registration from 9.30am, start 10am - 2:30pm
Contents:
KBSP/Safeguarding in Education Team Updates
Materials and links for education professionals for the Term's safeguarding updates on the following:
A series of short animated videos to support training, continuing professional development, learning resources on the curriculum and general awareness raising.
In light of the current rise in cases within Bristol we have compiled some useful information and advice around the measles outbreak for education settings.
This includes a letter to send to parents/carers reassuring communities around vaccinations.
Updates for the Education workforce - these include the S175 Safeguarding Audit 2024-2026; Other Local Safeguarding Partnership updates; KBSP Conference 2025; Update your setting’s contacts; Community Safety meetings and forms; Safeguarding in Education Team updates and future network and training dates.
Here are a few resources that professionals can share with their parent and carer community to keep children and young people safe this Halloween half term.
This is a video created by the Shadow Board of the Keeping Bristol Safe Partnership to support parents to have conversations with their children about knife crime. Whilst we created this in Bristol, the video can be transferable to other areas in the UK.
Join us in celebrating Bristol Community Champions, who are transforming the lives of local women, as part of our BLACK HISTORY MONTH events.
The joint event, hosted by Refugee Women of Bristol and FORWARD, will highlight the incredible stories of resilience and the strategic role these champions play as bridge builders and unsung heroes in their communities.
There are planned opt out days in education on the 7 and 8 October 2025.
This is a quick article for you to consider what you can do to support children to respond and resonate with exercising their political voices in a safe and constructive manner.
The Green House is the specialist support service for children, young people and families impacted by
sexual abuse in Avon and Somerset. They offer individual therapies, family support and a range of groups.
This guide is designed to help. Young people, parents and carers with lived experience wanted to share what worked for them or what could have made a difference.
We are pleased to announce that the consultation survey for the Bristol SEND and Inclusion draft strategy 2024–2028 is now live. The survey closes on Monday 28 October and can be filled out here: https://bit.ly/bristol-send-inclusion-strategy-consultation.
See below information on Community Learning, part of the Bristol City Council Employment, Skills and Learning team
You can download their Learner Information Pack here
Beyond Equality is an organisation dedicated to tackling sexism in schools. For the past 18 months, in partnership with Movember, we’ve been facilitating conversations with groups of men across Bristol, Bath and the South West, unpacking the impact that masculinity has on their mental health, relationships and communities. Following the success of this project, and building upon the work we’re already doing in schools around the country, we’re offering interactive seminars and CPD-accredited workshops
The police have asked us share with you the Draft Police and Crime Plan alongside the feedback survey here. The survey is open until 21st October.
The ask has come from Marc Hole and is because there are priorities relating to CSA, children affected by DA, youth violence and school exclusion and the OPCC would like feedback from all partners on the plan.
