Tune into our episode for more about: the impact PANTS has had since it launched in 2012 having conversations around PANTS and embedding the messages into daily life how local safeguarding boards, parents, schools and local communities are helping to raise awareness of the campaign what children have said about the PANTS campaign and future developments to materials and resources. Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website . 💬 About the speakers Ally Sultana is the Local Campaign...
Oct 28, 2019•23 min•Ep. 19
In this episode, we speak to Leila Canay, one of Stoke’s Children Services Practitioners about: what evaluation activities are currently being run in Stoke how the initiative has invited change and developed over time working with the community and partners establishing professional and community partnerships, including embracing collaboration and co-creation how young people can be involved in influencing and informing Together for Childhood in their local area. Read the podcast transcript on t...
Oct 14, 2019•22 min•Ep. 18
In this episode, our contributors discuss: the role and responsibilities of a charity trustee the key to good governance in a charity the importance of complying with legislation and guidance around keeping children safe top tips to ensure charity trustees and managers are working well and playing an active role in safeguarding. This series was carried out as part a partnership led by NCVO , funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the National Lottery Fund withi...
Sep 30, 2019•29 min•Ep. 17
We are almost reaching the end of our series on safeguarding children and young people within local communities. Tune into this week’s episode to find out more about: the role faith-based communities and groups have in children and young people’s lives why it’s essential groups and communities understand their safeguarding responsibilities how to address safeguarding challenges and develop a safeguarding culture that works alongside cultural beliefs, values and customs the importance in listenin...
Sep 16, 2019•25 min•Ep. 16
In this podcast episode, you’ll learn about: good safeguarding practices for schools the barriers children can face when talking about their experiences of abuse managing relationships with parents supporting students and staff and promoting positive mental health how to work with other organisations and statutory services in the community to ensure pupils feel safe and supported. Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website . 💬 About the speakers Kay Joel is a Senior Consultant at...
Sep 08, 2019•29 min•Ep. 15
Our host Chris Cloke and Gawain Griffiths, a Website Supervisor for the NSPCC discuss: how to run online services safely and manage an online presence effectively adopting professional and personal life boundaries online, particularly, with social media and email accounts the impact of bullying and how to prevent it online and respond appropriately who organisations can go to for resources, guidelines, templates and support what children and young people tell Childline about keeping safe online....
Sep 02, 2019•32 min•Ep. 14
Through this episode, you’ll find out more about: the similarities, differences and challenges in safeguarding adults and children how organisations working with mixed-age groups can safeguard children and adults in their care the importance of separate policies and procedures for adults and children safer recruitment and changing organisational culture so that safeguarding is a priority the support and resources available to mixed-age group organisations. These episodes were produced as part of...
Aug 19, 2019•29 min•Ep. 13
This summer, we are releasing a compilation of episodes on key topics related to safeguarding children and young people within your community. Learn more about: building a safer culture in your organisation how to deal with and respond to concerns about a young person or adult making the nominated lead role visible to children, staff and parents so they know who to go to for support training and development needs, including supervision and support for nominated leads the importance of establishi...
Aug 05, 2019•32 min•Ep. 12
In this episode, we focus on: advice, tips and guidance on safeguarding to get you started common challenges organisations face when addressing safeguarding issues bringing organisations up to speed with current legislation the need for organisations to tailor policies and procedures keeping communication channels open between children and organisations. These podcasts were produced as part of a partnership led by NCVO , funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and t...
Jul 22, 2019•35 min•Ep. 11
The lead author of the report, Holly Bentley, a Senior Information Specialist at the NSPCC speaks about: why we chose to focus on online safety and online abuse this year where we sourced the data from how we collaborated with experts who have an insight into the world of online safety the key findings and main conclusions drawn from the report how our surveys gave children a safe space to talk about their experiences. Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website . 💬 About the spea...
Jul 08, 2019•17 min•Ep. 10
Tune into the podcast to listen to our experts discuss: what professionals should consider when working with military families how the child’s voice was incorporated into our evaluation activities safeguarding and child protection issues faced by military-connected children parental resilience, social connections and emotional development key findings and recommendations from our service evaluation report. Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website . 💬 About the speakers Nicola M...
Jun 24, 2019•31 min•Ep. 9
This episode features two of our Senior Consultants at the NSPCC, Donya Pourzand and Craig Keady, who discuss the importance of safer recruitment in educational institutions. They explore: how schools, colleges and academies can recruit safely what can go wrong when a safer recruitment process isn’t followed examples of high-level profile cases that have put education in the spotlight for the wrong reasons the common errors made by educational institutions during recruitment processes why traini...
Jun 10, 2019•29 min•Ep. 8
We talk to the NSPCC’s Senior Educational Consultant, Kay Joel, about the following: the importance of having anti-bullying policies and procedures why schools need an anti-bullying ethos approach how policies and procedures have changed over the years what makes an effective anti-bullying policy and procedure where to go for further tips and advice on bullying. Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website . 💬 About the speaker Kay Joel is a Senior Consultant at the NSPCC who works...
May 28, 2019•9 min•Ep. 7
Speak out Stay safe is our free safeguarding service that we’ve been running in primary schools since 2011. The programme is delivered by specially trained staff and volunteers with the help of our Speak out Stay Safe mascot, Buddy the speech bubble. Pupils are taught in a lively, memorable and child-friendly way. Joining us in this podcast, we have Rose Bray, NSPCC’s Reach Development Project Manager for the NSPCC’s Schools Service, Karen Squillino who leads on our direct work with schools, and...
May 13, 2019•32 min•Ep. 6
The NSPCC runs two services that support parents with their mental health, Pregnancy in Mind (PiM) and Baby Steps . In our fifth podcast, we speak with Louise Harrington, Development and Impact Manager and Victoria Joel (Tori), Implementation Manager about preventative mental health services and perinatal educational programmes. Find out why parents might be referred to these types of services, how they engage with families to provide the right support and what provisions are currently available...
Apr 29, 2019•29 min•Ep. 5
The Lighthouse is a multi-agency service for children and young people in Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington who have experienced any form of sexual abuse, including exploitation. At The Lighthouse, the child is at the centre, to make sure they have a safe place to recover at their own pace and rebuild their lives. The Lighthouse (Child House) is led by University College London Hospitals in partnership with NSPCC and Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and will be piloted for two years...
Apr 23, 2019•29 min•Ep. 4
In this podcast episode Ali talks to four members of the team: Mandy John-Baptiste, Service head of CTAC, Martina Murray, Assistant team manager, and Charlotte Jamieson and Sylvia Vuong who are social workers. Mandy, Martina, Charlotte and Sylvia provide us with an overview of CTAC's work and explain why children and young people are trafficked and the ways in which they are exploited. They also discuss the “tricks” child traffickers employ to control and isolate children and young people and wh...
Apr 08, 2019•31 min•Ep. 3
In this podcast episode, Ali talks to four members of the Protect and Respect team: Holly Gordon, Impact and Development Manager, Laura Gaffor and Amy Stelfox, Child Service Practitioners and Mike Williams, Senior Evaluation Officer. Holly, Laura, Amy and Mike discuss the Protect and Respect service, which offers two types of support: awareness raising group work and a support and protection service. They talk about the issues surrounding CSE and how best to work with children and young people w...
Mar 27, 2019•31 min•Ep. 2
In this podcast episode, we speak to Jon Brown, the NSPCC's Head of Development and Impact. Jon gives us an overview of Together for Childhood, which is being developed in four sites: Glasgow, Grimsby, Plymouth and Stoke. He talks about the collaborations and co-developments between voluntary, statutory and community sectors, how the programme is helping develop current and new NSPCC services and how it is being funded, evaluated and rolled out. We'll be visiting the four sites in future episode...
Mar 15, 2019•25 min•Ep. 1
