Wirral Safeguarding News

WSCB Newsletter now available

The WSCB are publishing a bi-monthly newsletter to highlight new and successful activities across the partnership to safeguard and promote positive outcomes for children and young people. The first edition was published just before Christmas and can be found here Partner agencies are invited to submit articles for the next...

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Our 2016/17 Annual Report is now available to view online!

The Board publishes its Annual Report every September and it provides an assessment of the breadth and effectiveness of safeguarding arrangements for the previous 12 month period of the financial year (April to March). Read about the work of the WSCB and its Partners in our Annual Report 2016-17 here.

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Supporting Families Enhancing Futures (SFEF) Launch

The Wirral Safeguarding Children Board (WSCB) have developed a new model for working with children, young people and their families across levels 3 and 4 (Team Around the Family, Child in Need and Child Protection) of the Wirral Continuum of Need. The new model is called Supporting Families Enhancing Futures (SFEF) and has...

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Update of Website

The website now has over 60 pages of information for professionals, children, families and the wider public to access. This includes help, advice, links to resources, videos, policies, campaigns and safeguarding work completed by children and young people. Recent additions to the website include: The Let's Talk PANTS campaign from...

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Seen and Heard – Child Sexual Abuse

1 in 20 children in the UK has been sexually abused. Many of these young people wanted to disclose their abuse at the time – but didn’t feel like they could. Sadly, too often the signs that children and young people are being sexually abused or exploited are being missed...

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