By understanding how to talk about sexual abuse, professionals can address concerns earlier, work effectively with children and families and bring words to the silence around child sexual abuse.
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Podcast: The work of the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
Discover how learning from the work of the Panel, and the reports they publish, can lead to improvements in safeguarding practice. You'll hear two members of the Panel discuss two reports published at the end of 2024: a national review into child sexual abuse within the family environment and their annual report.
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Mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse
What are the latest government plans for a mandatory duty in England to report known or suspected child sexual abuse?
Celebrating 20 years of CASPAR
Keeping professionals up to date with child protection and safeguarding knowledge and information throughout two decades of change in government and guidance. Sign up for our weekly email alert.
Podcast: helping children recover from domestic abuse
This episode explores the impact of domestic abuse on children, how we’ve widened our reach to support more children and families and what it’s like to be a practitioner on the frontline.
Making neuroscience more accessible: childhood trauma, the brain and mental health
Read about UCL’s latest study – funded by the NSPCC and ESRC - into how childhood experiences of abuse and neglect can affect brain development.
Podcast: safeguarding advice for tutors
Join us in our discussion with members from The Tutors’ Association about the role tutors have in safeguarding and protecting children and young people.
Podcast: how Childline has been supporting children during COVID-19
What’s been going on at Childline in the past few months? Listen to our two Childline workers discuss what children and young people have been telling them and how they’ve been supported.
Podcast: impact on delivering children’s services during lockdown
Social distancing has made it difficult for practitioners to carry out their regular check-ins with children and families. How have they responded to these challenges to ensure needs are still met?
Podcast: impact of coronavirus on school staff and pupils
Listen to an account of how teachers delivered and are continuing to deliver school services to pupils since the lockdown in March 2020.
Podcast: returning to school post-lockdown
Find out how schools and academies have been affected by coronavirus and how they’ve responded during and after the lockdown.
Podcast: antenatal and postnatal care during COVID-19
Find out how antenatal and postnatal services have adapted in response to coronavirus (COVID-19) to continue to support parents before, during and after pregnancy.
UK Government publishes three new reports about learning from case reviews in England
Three new reports focused on learning from case reviews in England have been made available through the UK Government website.