Child Safeguarding Solutions Blog

28/08/2019

Our friends at Time2Listen in Hull, Gail Thornton and her team, are running a one-day workshop for primary and secondary teachers, SENCOs, therapists, social workers, parents, adopters, foster carers, ...

02/11/2017

Announcing a very important conference in the New Year Conference Title: Responding to challenges for victims of child abuse and exploitation in the criminal justice system.Conference date: Friday...

24/10/2017

This is the second in a series of video blogs from ChildSafeguardingSolutions.org on the subject of child protection and child safeguarding. In conversation with Independent Safeguarding Consultants Ad...

17/10/2017

I recently attended a debate and dinner arranged by the Guardian newspaper and the British Association of Social Workers at the National Children and Adult Services Conference in Bournemouth. The debat...

02/10/2017

A short video blog with reference to a report published on the death of Ayeeshia-Jayne Smith in Derbyshire, presented by Gerard Kiely-Jones, Senior Child Protection Consultant.To view this video, click

27/09/2017

“More cock up than conspiracy.” Rotherham and issues of professional negligence and misconduct.By Adele Gladman, Independent Safeguarding Children ConsultantThis blog post is reproduced wit...

07/09/2017

By Gerard Kiely-JonesBy now many of you will have heard of the death of Ayeeshia-Jayne Smith the 21-month-old little girl brutally murdered by her mother.By now you'll also have heard a lot about how s...

21/07/2017

Part 3 in our Q and A series on GDPR readiness ...Do individuals have the right to view the data we hold on them?Yes. Part of the expanded rights of data subjects outlined by the GDPR is the right for ...

20/07/2017

Common questions on GDPR answered, part 2.The bar on protection of personal data has been raised and there will be severe penalties for non-compliance. Very few bodies do not store personal data of som...

19/07/2017

After four years of preparation and debate the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was finally approved by the EU Parliament on 14 April 2016. It was designed to harmonize data privacy laws ac...

08/06/2017

This article was written by Gerard Kiely-Jones and first appeared on LinkedIN.The severity of a sign does not necessarily equate with the severity of the abuse. Severe and potentially fatal injuries ar...

30/05/2017

Blog posted by Sean Harford, on 18 January 2017 in the Gov.UK blog under "Ofsted - developments in education".Periodically at Ofsted I become aware of misconceptions about inspection processes; what we...

22/05/2017

The key feature of an integrated service is that it acts as a service hub for the community by bringing together a range of services whose practitioners then work in a multi-agency way to deliver integ...

16/05/2017

Cognitive technologies have the potential to revolutionize the public sector—and save billions of dollars.By William D. Eggers, David Schatsky, Dr. Peter Viechnicki26 April, 2017Can “smart&...