Wirral Safeguarding News
A New Online Exploitation Awareness Toolkit for School Staff
An online Exploitation Awareness Toolkit designed specifically for staff working in mainstream secondary schools is now available. This has been a collaborative project by The Children’s Society’s Disrupting Exploitation, CLIMB, and Prevention Programmes. The resources have been informed by feedback from teachers, school-based work with young people, and our experience...
Read moreThe Contextual Safeguarding team are delivering three awareness raising spotlight sessions about County Lines next week. No booking required, just follow the link for the session of your choice: Click here to join the County Lines Spotlight Session 3rd October @ 8.30am Click here to join the County Lines Spotlight...
Read moreLearning from pan-Merseyside Case Reviews
The Wirral Safeguarding Children Partnership has been working in conjunction with colleagues from Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens, and Knowsley to consider common themes appearing in Case Reviews across the Merseyside area. Five common themes were identified from all of the Case Reviews considered: Voice & Lived Experience of the Child,...
Read moreTopic 3 of this year’s Section 11 audit is now live.
Topic 3 of this year’s Section 11 audit is now live. Please follow this link to complete the audit: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/2022Section11Topic3 If you are a School or College – please follow this link to complete the Section 175: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/2022Section175Topic3 Deadline: 19th August If you have not yet completed topics 1 and...
Read morePublication of new Pan Mersey NRM Exploitation Practice Guidance
Child exploitation is a major, cross-cutting issue involving drugs, violence (including sexual violence), gangs, safeguarding, criminal and sexual exploitation, modern slavery, and missing children. Child victims of modern slavery should be referred into the Home Office National Referral Mechanism (NRM). The Practice Guidance document sets out the identification and local...
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