VOYC – Group 2 Awareness in Safeguarding Training
This course gives those working with children a greater understanding of the child protection identification, responding, recording and reporting processes.
Children and Young People’s Plan 2019-2022: we want to hear your feedback
We have developed the Children and Young Peoples Plan from the things that staff, parents and children have told us are important. We are now checking we have got this right.
Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel: first national review
The Panel will visit Devon and talk to the key people involved in one specific case looking at adolescents and criminal exploitation.
Forced Marriage – You have the right to choose
We are raising awareness of forced marriages. Everyone has the right to choose who they marry, when they marry or if they marry at all. Forced marriage is illegal in the UK.
Invitation to the regional Online Safety Update session from the UK Safer Internet Centre
A chance for professionals in the local community to learn about out about free resources and services that will help them to keep children and adults safer online.
Ofsted Annual Conversation and Focused Visit
Ofsted “left with a clear sense of the key milestones in the local authority’s improvement journey, the challenges that remain, and plans for future improvement.”
Missed opportunities highlighted in published report
A report by the Devon Safeguarding Children Partnership into the historical sexual abuse of a young girl identified missed opportunities by agencies that may have prevented the extent of her abuse.
Launch of online toolkit to help tackle exploitation
The toolkit will help frontline colleagues learn about, identify and report exploitation happening in Devon and the surrounding area.
County Lines – know the signs
Devon & Cornwall Police launched a campaign to raise awareness of County Lines and how professionals and the public can help spot the signs of such criminal activity ongoing in their community.