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Welcome to the NYSCP January 2025 edition of our e-bulletin.
Happy New Year!
As we step into January and a new year, it’s natural to feel the buzz of new beginnings and the allure of fresh starts (it’s all my social media feed is full of!) However, this year, let’s take a moment to embrace a gentler approach.
January often comes with a lot of pressure to set ambitious goals and make significant changes. But remember, growth and progress don’t always have to be monumental. Sometimes, the most impactful changes come from the smallest adjustments in our daily routines. So, let’s celebrate the journey rather than the destination, focusing on the small victories and finding contentment in the present.
The same is true for the world of safeguarding, which can at times feel overwhelming; “there’s too much to remember”, “how can I keep up to date with everything?” are worries that are common among practitioners. This is hopefully where we at the NYSCP can help, it’s not about knowing all the information, but it’s about knowing where to turn to access that information when you need it (Hint: It’s the NYSCP website!)
2025 holds lots of exciting developments in store for the partnership as we shift focus to the development of some key strategies that will shape our priorities for safeguarding children in North Yorkshire.
Finally, we started the new year with the news that the Director of Children and Families Services for North Yorkshire Council, Stuart Carlton has received a knighthood for his contributions to the welfare of children and families. From all of us at the partnership, congratulations Stuart on such a wonderful accolade!
As always, thank you for being a part of the NYSCP community, and please keep in touch with us if there are elements that you would like to add to bulletin. Here’s to a wonderful January taking us into a positive 2025!
Kat Morrison, Policy and Development Officer.
Jump to…
- Do your PART
- Online Safety
- Practice Guidance Focus
- National Papers
- Safeguarding in the faith and Community Sector – new National Working Group Resources
- School Safeguarding Audit Submission Extension and Drop in Dates!
- National Training
- Local Training
- Partnership Resources
- National Resources
Multi – Agency Safeguarding Arrangements
Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 is a multi-agency statutory guidance that sets out expectations for the systems, processes, and ways people work together to help, support, and protect children and their families.
The second chapter strengthens how the multi-agency safeguarding arrangements (local authorities, integrated care boards, and the police) work to safeguard and protect children locally, including with relevant agencies.
Safeguarding leads across North Yorkshire have worked together throughout 2024 to review the arrangements and identify what changes needed to be made to comply with the updated statutory guidance. As a result, the leads, in consultation with relevant agencies agreed on the new multi-agency safeguarding arrangements for North Yorkshire as set out in the document below.
Please take some time to familiarise yourself with the document and share among colleagues and teams.
NYSCP-MASA-Arrangements-Dec-24.pdf
Online Safety
We know we mentioned this in the December e-bulletin, but January is often the time for experimentation of new gifts given at Christmas, many of which being technology based. It is vital when these new devises are set up that security measures are in place, and there are lots of National resources on hand for all devices, games and apps. Here are some useful links to share:
Keep Children Safe Online: Information, Advice, Support – Internet Matters.
Setting my child up for responsible gaming online | Internet Matters
Home Page – The Online Safety Centre Home Learning Hub – Safer Schools
There are also some great bits of information on parenting neurodiverse children in the digital world in this article. Bytes of advice: parenting neurodiverse children in the digital world – Parenting for a Digital Future
The Online Together Project | Internet Matters x Samsung UK, Choose quiz – Internet Matters, Introduction to Balancing Screen Time | Digital Matters is a great, interactive way to get children to engage with online safety, especially during the Christmas break when they might be online a bit more than usual or experimenting with a new device.
A reminder that technology in the bedroom is a growing problem affecting people of all ages Recent studies have found that around 75% of children and 70% of adults use electronic devices in their bedroom or in bed.
Unfortunately, using electronic devices at night can interfere with both the quantity and quality of sleep. To counteract this, an increasing number of sleep experts recommend keeping technology out of the bedroom. Lots of useful tips for having a technology free bedroom (for you and for the children you are working with) can be accessed here: Technology in the Bedroom
Practice Guidance Focus
Each month we like to draw reference to piece of practice guidance that is available on the NYSCP website.
This month we would like to share the newly reviewed Missing from Home and Care Protocol, this is a joint protocol with City of York that role we all play when a young person goes missing or runs away. It also shows the clear process of services for locating a child and offering support and guidance for when a child returns to home or care.
To find out more about the risks young people face when they are missing visit: NYSCP
National Papers
As a partnership, we would like to make you aware of some National Papers that have been released over the last month.
- Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill this link provides a summary of the Bill that was introduced to Parliament on 17th December. A partnership summary of the paper will be produced and shared with partners in due course.
- The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel has produced a national review, the review explores the specific challenges which feature in the identification, assessment, and response to child sexual abuse within the family environment. It also sets out recommendations and findings for national government and local safeguarding partners to protect children at risk. The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel – I wanted them all to notice a summary can be accessed here: CSPRG summary
- The Safeguarding Practice Review Panel have also shared their Annual Report. This is the fifth annual report from the independent Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel. It looks at the child safeguarding system, based on serious child safeguarding incidents occurring between April 2023 and March 2024. It highlights key themes and patterns in practice for national government and local safeguarding partners to improve the protection of vulnerable children.
Safeguarding in the faith and Community Sector – new National Working Group Resources
NWG recognise the important role that faith communities play in shaping the well-being of individuals, which is why their campaign focuses on raising awareness of abuse and promoting positive responses in faith-based settings and how it’s important for us all to work together jointly with statutory and voluntary partners.
This animation has been specifically designed for the faith sector to help individuals within these communities – whether parents, community members, faith leaders or volunteers, to understand how to recognise signs of abuse and respond effectively to concerns. Posters and a toolkit are also available as part of the campaign. CSE Faith Support – STOP CE –
We’ve also added these resource to our Communities page, which can be accessed here: NYSCP
School Safeguarding Audit Submission Extension and Drop in Dates!
The School Safeguarding Audit has been sent out to all schools in North Yorkshire. If, you have not seen this, please email NYSCP@northyorks.gov.uk as soon as possible.
We are running four lunchtime drop-ins to support the completion of the Audit on the following dates from 12 – 1 pm. Please register your interest and your date preference and we will send you a meeting link by return.
- 28th / 31st January 2025
- 13th / 14th February 2025
To comply with local governance requirements, the deadline date for audit submission (including governor’s approval) has now been extended to 28th March 2025.
National Training
Unlocking Autism for Parents & Carers 2 Day Course | NYES Info Free unlocking autism training for parents & carers
Are you a parent or carer of a child or young person with communication and interaction needs? NYES SEND & Inclusion are running a FREE two-day training course in the new year. This annual event is an opportunity to find out more about autism and gain practical tools and strategies to help support your child or young person. Click here to book.
Crisis Tools is a site with training and resources to improve confidence, knowledge and skills in supporting young people in crisis. Created by young people working in partnership with mental health experts. Short, accessible video guides and text resources. All for free. A series of free training events are available for free that can be accessed here: Crisis Tools Academy crisis line programme – Crisis Tools
YGam is a UK-based charity that provides evidence-led education, training, and resources to help young people avoid gaming and gambling harms. Their website has a wealth of useful resources alongside a programme of free training which can be accessed here: Book Training – Ygam
Local Training
Safeguarding Children Basic Awareness – Online Learning
This online training package is aimed at individuals in organisations and voluntary groups who work with children and young people to give basic awareness of child protection issues and how to safeguard children from abuse.
The course should take approximately 45 minutes to complete and is free of charge, a certificate may be printed at the end – however, please remember to enter your name before clicking print as Training and Learning are unable to identify who and when someone has completed this learning. https://breeze.northyorks.gov.uk/p2ie2imfdtr/
Monthly NYSCP Learning Events
There has been a slight change to our Learning event Programme from early 2025 with the following courses now available to book:
22nd January 2025 12:00 – 13:00: Young People and Vaping.This workshop will present a summary of findings from insights work into young people and vaping conducted by the Behavioural Science team based within North Yorkshire Public Health. A series of focus groups were conducted in the first half of 2024 with groups of young people aged 11-16. The insights from the focus groups highlight the young people’s views and understanding of vaping, in addition to the factors that may influence young people to vape or not. A series of recommendations have been collated that look at how to these findings can be utilised moving forward.
12th February 2025 12:00 – 13:00: Reducing Parental Conflict. This session will cover –
– What is Parental Conflict
– Triggers that may lead to Parental Conflict
– How Parental Conflict is different to Domestic Abuse
– The impact of Parental Conflict on Children
– Parents who may be more susceptible to experiencing unresolved arguing
– Resources and signposting.
5th March 2025 12:00 – 13:00: Growing Up in North Yorkshire Survey Results. This session will provide key safeguarding data from the Growing up in North Yorkshire Survey 2024 and the implications for professionals who work with children and young people.
NYSCP Developments in Safeguarding, Online Learning Session (Previously Masterclass) – March 2025 | NYES Info
Practitioner Forum:
Our next practitioner forum takes place on 15th January 2025 12:00 – 13:00. For this meeting the group agreed to look at the NYSCP website and how we can make it more valuable and accessible for frontline practitioners as well as children and families. If you are unable to attend the website but want to share some comments about the website, we would welcome thoughts and ideas that can come through to: nyscp@northyorks.gov.uk
The agenda items will continue to be set by frontline practitioners, so if you have any ideas that you would like to be covered in the forum please get it touch.
Partnership Resources
Child V – The importance of tailoring safe sleep messages to individual family circumstances, particularly where there are additional risk factors.
Sometimes a child suffers a serious injury or death as a result of abuse or neglect. Understanding not only what happened but also why it happened can help improve our response in the future. As a partnership we complete learning reviews that can be accessed on this page NYSCP. For each review you will find a list of themes that are relevant for that review so you can see, quicky, which is relevant to your practice.
For the most recent review, for Child V, we have developed a new “frontline 5” resource which highlight the five key learning points from the review in an easily accessible way: 661717469-Child-V-Frontline-Five-Poster.pdf
Working Together to Safeguard children 2023: December Learning Event.
In December 2024 the partnership welcomed around 100 attendees to hear from our Statutory Partners and some of our relevant agencies about what the changes to Working Together mean for them and their practice. A recording of the session can be accessed here: NYSCP Learning Event Working Together to Safeguard Children December 2024 – YouTube
All details relating to Working Together to Safeguarding Children 2023 for people working and volunteering in North Yorkshire can be accessed here: NYSCP
NYSCP website walkthrough:
NYSCP business unit have produced a short video ‘walkthrough’ of the NYSCP website, the video shows partners where to access key information and is a great resource for new starters (or for anyone wanting to know their way around the website a bit more). NYSCP website walkthrough
National Resources
2025 Quit Smoking National Campaign
The start of a new year is a great opportunity to support the nation’s 5.3 million smokers to make a quit attempt. NHS have developed a range of posters and digital assets that you can use across social media, websites, digital screens, and physical displays to help encourage smokers to give quitting a go and signpost to support. New Year 2025 Quit Smoking | Campaigns | Campaign Resource Centre
Time to Talk Day
Time to Talk day will be taking place on 7th February 2025. It’s the Nation’s biggest mental health conversation. We’ll be posting lots more about mental health in the February edition of the e-bulletin, but here are some useful resources to get you started over January. About – Time To Talk Day
Useful Links
- Worried about a child?
- NYSCP Website, including
- NSPCC – CASPAR Weekly updated
- CEOP – Think U Know
- CYPS info
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