The UK Trauma Council has developed a live webinar series providing expert insights into important trauma-related areas affecting children and young people.

Free live webinar: Unpacking Complex Trauma

Thursday May 16, 2024, 05:00 PM – 06:30 PM BST 

The UKTC’s online event will explore what complex trauma means, how it might be defined, and considering the impact on children and young people. Through short presentations, the speakers will present different dimensions of complex trauma from perspectives such as systemic, structural, cognitive and neuroscience. This will be followed by a panel discussion.

The live event is aimed at professionals supporting children and young people who have experienced trauma.

Book a free place via this link. 

Parent-infant relationships: starting conversations (practitioner guide)

Guidance for frontline practitioners to explore a parent or carer’s relationship with their baby, and identify parent-infant relationship difficulties.

The Department of Health and Social Care has published guidance to help frontline practitioners in England explore parent/carer and infant relationships. The guidance is aimed at social workers, health visitors and family support workers. It includes conversation prompts and sets out a framework to help identify parent-infant relationship difficulties.

Read the guidance: Parent-infant relationships: starting conversations (practitioner guide)

Action for Children has published a review of child criminal exploitation across the UK. The review explores the scale and nature of the criminal exploitation of children and includes insight from the lived experiences of children, parents and professionals. Key learning highlights: the need for a clear and consistent definition of the criminal exploitation of children; tensions between the criminal justice system and child protection, with the criminalisation of exploited children ; and difficulties in identifying, preventing and responding to exploitation. The review calls for a single, cohesive legal code designed to tackle the criminal exploitation of children.

Read the review: Shattered lives, stolen futures: the Jay review of criminally exploited children  

See also on NSPCC Learning 
> Protecting children from county lines

Source: NSPCC Learning

Date: 14 March 2024

NSPCC Learning has published a new statistics briefing on child neglect. It looks at data and statistics about child neglect in the UK to help professionals make evidence-based decisions, covering the scale of the issue and what data tells us about children who have been neglected.
  
Read/Download the briefing: Neglect: statistics briefing

See also on NSPCC Learning 
> Protecting children from neglect

Source: NSPCC Learning

Date: 13 March 2024

NSPCC Learning has published a Helplines insight briefing on barriers for professionals when reporting child abuse and neglect. It is based on contacts to the NSPCC Helpline and NSPCC Whistleblowing Advice Line in 2022/23 by people working or volunteering with children and young people. The briefing identified gaps in knowledge and confidence for some professionals including believing they needed to wait for permission to report concerns. There were also fears around sharing concerns, including worries about disrupting or breaking up families and fears for personal safety. Some professionals described organisational issues such as a lack of safeguarding processes and concealing of abuse.

Read the briefing: Barriers for professionals to reporting abuse and neglect: Helplines insight briefing

See also on NSPCC Learning 
> Recognising and responding to abuse