Sandwell Early Help

Info and Resources for Practitioners

This is where we will share any Articles of Interest, News Stories and Training Opportunities.  If you have any items that you would like to share, please contact Angel@scvo.info 

Articles of interest

New Programme of Community Network Meetings

Working or Volunteering with children, young people and families in Sandwell? Join us to engage, connect, and discover new partnerships through our Community Network Meetings.

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Working Together to Safeguard Children - DECEMBER 2023

Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 was published in December 2023. It outlines a number of changes to improve practice, processes and systems across the continuum of help and support by strengthening multi-agency working while keeping children at the centre of our work using a whole family approach.

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Safeguarding resources for Out of School Settings Community

For those members of the Out of School Settings Community, the SCSP would like to provide you with some essential resources to support your safeguarding efforts.

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Sandwell Early Help Offer at a glance

Sandwell Early Help Offer at a glance - Strengthening Families Teams' contacts.

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Reducing Parental Conflict

Conflict and arguments between parents and within families is normal. However, conflict between parents can start to harm children’s outcomes if it becomes destructive.  Destructive parental conflict is frequent, intense, and poorly resolved. It can happen even if parents are no longer in a relationship together but are still co-parenting.

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Challenging conversations - a guide for professionals

New Guidance around Challenging Conversations.

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Sandwell Multi-Agency Neglect Strategy 2022 – 2024: TACKLING NEGLECT

Neglect Awareness and Training Offer

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Permanency in Sandwell: A Partnership Approach

Permanence - creating more resilience within families and communities and ensuring all of our children and young people have a safe, happy and stable home.

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News posts

Free Mental Health Support for Secondary School Pupils in Sandwell

Wysa is an AI wellbeing coach that has been commissioned by Black Country Health NHS Foundation Trust to give CYP a safe, non-judgmental space where they can talk about anything and everything that's bothering them. Let off steam and share your worries - Wysa is here to listen!

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SCSP Summer Summit 2024

Come along to the SCSP Summer Summit 2024 to hear the latest updates on national and local child safeguarding strategies and practice from specialist keynote speakers on a range of themes.

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Sandwell Family Hubs - Peer Support Update

Find out more about how Sandwell Family Hubs are working with voluntary and community sector organisations who can engage families and support them to engage in services; and enhance the existing Family Hubs offer.

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Holiday Activities and Food 2024 Summer Grant Application Round

The summer application round for the HAF 2024 grant programme is now open. The HAF 2024 programme aims to provide high-quality holiday activities and healthy food for children and young people who are eligible for free school meals (FSM) that live in or attend a school in Sandwell.

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Funding available to tackle problems within Families

Registered charities whose activities support and encourage the family to work as a cohesive unit in tackling problems that face one or more of its members can apply for grants of up to £5,000 (but trustees will consider requests for higher amounts) through the Kelly Family Charitable Trust.

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Grants to promote Mental Health & Wellbeing for Young People

Registered charities that are core-focused on mental-health-related matters to support projects that promote the mental health and wellbeing of children and young adults across the UK is available.

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Bereavement Support Services

Sandwell's Bereavement Support Services have been pulled together to support suicide prevention and better mental health in our communities.

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Brotherhood Mentoring and Sandwell Hubs

Powered by CAN's "Brotherhood" are delighted to announce that they now have availability to take on more mentees and have 3 new hubs starting in 2024.

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NEW Sandwell Pathway to Support

Autism West Midlands’ new Sandwell Pathway to Support will help to ensure parents and carers are accessing the right support at the right time, increase engagement, reduce waiting times, and improve outcomes for the families we support.

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NEW Force Intelligence Bureau (FIB) Form

There is a new FIB form for sharing far and wide. The purpose of the Force Intelligence Bureau (FIB) Form, also referred to as the West Midlands Police Information Report, is to inform the police of any intelligence that has been gathered during day to day working.

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Training opportunities

Sandwell Training offer for Professionals

Online RSE training opportunities for Professionals working in Sandwell. Offer includes Sexual Behaviours Traffic Light Tool, Understanding Masculinity and Tackling Misogyny; and Sexual Harassment.

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Upcoming Webinars

Webinars relating to ‘Using Sport to enhance positive outcomes for young people in the context of serious youth violence: Making Referrals: Guidance and toolkit to support Locally Trusted Organisations (LTOs) and Referral Agencies'.

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FREE Online Awareness Training Schedule

FREE online awareness training schedule for Tackling Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking and Exploitation.

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Free training to help keep children safe

The NSPCC has recently launched its Listen Up, Speak Up campaign nationally which is aimed at empowering everyone to know what to do if they are ever worried about a child or family.

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Understanding and addressing Andrew Tate with young people

Exciting new training for professionals - Understanding and addressing Andrew Tate with young people.

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Uniting Faith Communities and fighting against Modern Slavery

In a world where modern slavery continues to lurk in the shadows, the power of awareness and action within our communities has never been more critical. Join this enlightening session designed for faith leaders and community members across the faith sector.

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Training offer by Aptitude Training

Safeguarding DSL Designated Safeguarding Lead (Level 3) and Child Protection (Level 1) courses available to book for your organisation or a group of partner agencies in your network.

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LGBTQ+ training for workers supporting CYP - 240 funded places available!

The Black Country Healthcare Foundation Trust is delighted to be able to provide this evidenced based training to support the voluntary providers and partners who support the emotional wellbeing of children and young people.

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Ending Male Violence Against Women and Girls (EMVAWG)

A free online course offering an introduction to Ending Male Violence Against Women and Girls (EMVAWG).

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10 Dialogues for Boys and Young Men

FREE training opportunity for those working with boys and young men.

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