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Guidance and briefing notes

There are a number of briefing notes and resources that have been developed or shared by TWSP, all of which can be found below:


Adults

Children

Download the briefing notes developed following a Learning Review.

  • A Parent's Guide to Internet Controls: a guide developed by National Online Safety, to explain to parents and carers how to protect children and young people from harmful internet content.
  • Are you professionally curious?: following the discretionary MAPPA case review into the murder of Georgia Williams, this poster highlights the areas that could be improved upon, and serves as a reminder for all of our responsibility to safeguarding.
  • Bruising in children: 'Those who don't cruise, rarely bruise' poster, to highlight patterns of bruises which may be suggestive of abuse.
  • ICON: materials to help support parents in coping with crying babies
  • Core Groups: briefing note outlining what Core Groups are, their purpose, the roles of agencies and expectations for the meetings.
  • Keeping children safe in sport: posters released by the National Working Group (NWG) to share awareness of how to keep children safe in sport.
  • Online gaming: a variety of briefing notes designed to raise awareness of potential safeguarding issues within online games.
  • Respect Yourself: everything young people need to know about sex, contraception and staying safe in Telford and Wrekin.
  • Safe Places: 'I am me, and I deserve to be safe' contains information for children and parents about the Safe Places programme, including people to go to if a child feels unsafe.
  • What's the bigger picture?: a reminder to all that when dealing with incidents where both the victim and offender are children, it is important to look at the bigger picture.

Joint thematic areas of work

 


NICE Guidelines

These guidelines and subsequent recommendations address how best to keep adults in care homes safe from abuse and neglect.

The Guidelines include information on potential indicators of abuse and neglect by individuals or organisations and the safeguarding process from when a concern is first identified through to section 42 safeguarding enquiries. These guidelines make action-orientated recommendations to improve safeguarding for residents of care homes. There are recommendations on policy, training, and care home culture, to improve care home staff awareness of safeguarding and ensure people can report concerns when needed. They cover all adult residents of care homes, including people who stay at care homes for shorter periods (for example day visitors).

The TWSP recommend that these Guidelines should be used and referred to by the following groups: 

  • care home providers, managers, staff and volunteers
  • other health and social care practitioners working with adults in care homes
  • health and social care commissioners of residential care for adults
  • local authorities and Safeguarding Adults Boards
  • adults living in care homes, their families, friends, carers and advocates, and the public.

For a copy of the full Guidelines along with other useful information please visit the NICE website.