Domestic Abuse

• Supporting Childrens Understanding of Domestic Abuse (PowerPoint)

 

Lunch and Learn - Domestic Abuse Focus - took place on 14.06.23

This webinar aimed to raise awareness around Domestic Abuse. The session was jointly delivered by West Mercia Police, ICB and Cranstoun (the new Domestic Abuse Service for Telford and Wrekin) and covered the following topics:

• The role of the DARO 
• MARAC process 
• Information on Clare’s Law (DVDS) 
• The role of a DHR’s 
• The new Domestic Abuse Service 
• Different forms of domestic abuse 
• Warning flags to look out for 

Presentations for download:

• Domestic Abuse Risk Officer (DARO)
• Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme (DVD/Clare's Law)
• Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC)
• Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHR)
• Cranstoun (the new domestic abuse service) and domestic abuse signs

For further training opportunities please contact training@havenrefuge.org.uk

Child Exploitation

• Child Exploitation Disruption Toolkit
• Exploitation Toolkit
• Criminal Exploitation Presentation 
• DfE Teaching online safety in school 
• Home Office Prevent Training - This e-learning package has been developed by HM Government following consultation with a range of individuals and organisations. It has benefitted from the feedback of teachers, local authority officials, community-based groups, youth workers and many others. Links to further information can be found at the end of the training. This is introductory training. It will provide an important foundation on which to develop further knowledge around the risks of radicalisation and the role that you can play in supporting those at risk. The training addresses all forms of terrorism and non-violent extremism, including far right wing and Islamist extremism threatening the UK. It offers an introduction to the Prevent duty, and explains how it aims to safeguard vulnerable people from being radicalised to supporting terrorism or becoming terrorists themselves.A link to the prevent duty guidance is available at the end of the e-Learning.
  Course Type: E-learning                 
  Cost: Free
  Access here:
  Prevent Training: https://www.elearning.prevent.homeoffice.gov.uk
  Channel Awareness: https://www.elearning.prevent.homeoffice.gov.uk/channelawareness
  Prevent Referrals: https://www.elearning.prevent.homeoffice.gov.uk/preventreferrals

Child on Child Abuse

• Online safety presentation
• Creating a Culture of Respect Slides 
• Being Respectful assembly slides from Teagues Bridge 
• Peer on Peer Abuse and Sexual Harassment Slides 
• Peer on Peer Abuse Slides - 10 facts 
• Peer on Peer Abuse Policy (child friendly version from Teagues Bridge)
• Peer on peer abuse quiz for year 6 
• RSHE Online relationships, Online and media slides 
• RSHE Being Safe slides 
• RSHE Changing adolescent body slides
• RSHE Mental wellbeing slides 
• RSHE Respectful relationships slides 

Friendships

• The importance of friendship EY and KS1 
• The importance of friendship KS3
• Tricky Friends - this is a short animation all about friendships. It talks about what good and bad friendships look like and when children should seek help

Online Safety

• Online Safety Presentation (PowerPoint)
• Books for EY & KS1
• Books for KS2 
• Books for KS3 

 

Family Abuse

• FGM - The Home Office has launched a free online training package dealing with female genital mutilation (FGM), developed with Virtual College. It gives teachers, police, doctors, social workers and Border Force staff the training they need to help them identify and assist girls who are at risk of FGM. Access online at: https://www.fgmelearning.co.uk/
• Forced Marriage - A free e-learning course has been developed by the Forced Marriage Unit of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Home Office. It aims to raise awareness, challenge perceptions and inform you of the correct actions to take should you suspect someone is at risk.
  – After completing this training you will be able to:
  – Recognise the warning signs of forced marriage
  – Take the right actions to help protect the potential victim
  – Co-operate effectively with other agencies
  Course Type: E-Learning         
  Cost: Free
  Access online at: http://www.safeguardingchildrenea.co.uk/resources/awareness-of-forced-marriage-register-for-training
• Parents with substance use problems: learning from case reviews - Summary of risk factors and learning for improved practice around parents or carers with substance use problems (December 2023)

Trauma Informed Practice

This is an approach which recognises and acknowledges the impact that trauma can have.  A trauma based approach primarily views the individual as having been harmed by something or someone. The short video below helps explains how the brain works and the impact trauma can have on it.

As part of a series of webinars produced across the West Midlands region by Safeguarding Adults Boards, Solihull SAB joined up with RSVP to learn more about supporting survivors by being trauma responsive. To watch the webinar please visit the YouTube site. It included:

• Exploring the prevalence of sexual violence, harassment and abuse
• Myths surrounding sexual violence and abuse
• Victim blaming attitudes and language
• Examining the physical and emotional impact of trauma
• Reflecting on the basic principles of 'trauma-informed' practice
• Understanding ways of supporting survivors in a trauma responsive way

Suicide Prevention

The Zero Suicide Alliance (ZSA) are a members-led charity campaign hosted by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust dedicated to preventing suicide. They work in collaboration with NHS trusts, non-profit organisations, local authorities, businesses and individuals to raise awareness of suicide and its contributing factors, with the aim of breaking the stigma that surrounds suicide and enable leaders to drive meaningful action to help prevent suicide in the UK and beyond. To learn more about prevention please visit the Zero Suicide Alliance website which offers free awareness courses and support.

Papyrus - Prevention of Young Suicide also offers free help and guidance around supporting someone disclosing feelings of suicide. Visit their website here. 

General awareness

The Family Safeguarding Model is a strengths-based approach which looks to support parents to make positive changes to family life when they are referred to children’s services. It aims to keep families together, with bespoke and tailored packages of support around domestic violence, mental health and substance misuse. The Family Safeguarding Model is a pioneering approach to providing help for families in need. By bringing together children's social care professionals with specialists in adult mental health, domestic abuse and substance misuse we will provide tailored wrap around support for parents. This seminar was delivered by Darren Knibbs, Strategic Lead, Telford and Wrekin Council and Emma Martin, SDM Family Connect, Telford and Wrekin Council and provides further detail on the model itself and how it has progressed since its launch in June 2021, along with information on the Threshold of Needs

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