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Stay up to date with the latest news relating to safeguarding children and young people in York.
Read our recent news:
- Developing an Understanding of Harmful Sexual Behaviour Training
- Changes to Safeguarding A and B Training - April 2025
- North Yorkshire and City of York Partnership Information Sharing
- Virtual Keynote: Working with Adolescents
- Learning Masterclasses: Children's Rights
- Updated Early Help Assessment and Team Around The Family Forms
- Local protocol for assessment
- York Carers Centre - LOVE January Festival
- CYSCP Annual Reports 2024
Developing an Understanding of Harmful Sexual Behaviour Training
Published 14 March 2025.
We're pleased to announce that new dates have been scheduled for the Developing an Understanding of Harmful Sexual Behaviour course during 2025.
The training dates are as follows:
- Thursday 29 May, 10.00am to 2.00pm
- Thursday 21 August, 10.00am to 2.00pm
- Thursday 27 November, 10.00am to 2.00pm
These courses will all be held face-to-face at West Offices.
Changes to Safeguarding A and B Training – April 2025
Published 12 March 2025.
From April 2025, a new one day course is being launched. This will replace previous A and B courses which will no longer be available. We're hoping that attendees will find this a much better way to deliver the course.
Dates are now available for the new course Safeguarding children: Shared Responsibilities and Procedures Working Together, log into Mylo and sign up.
North Yorkshire and City of York Partnership Information Sharing
Published 21 February 2025.
The North Yorkshire and City of York Partnership Information Sharing Form can be used if you think you have information to share with the police about situations in which children, young people or adults may be vulnerable to exploitation.
Virtual Keynote: Working with Adolescents
Published 15 January 2025.
On Monday 27 January 2025, 11.00am to 1.00pm, Dez Holmes will be presenting a keynote on working with adolescents and those experiencing extra-familial harm.
Dez is the Director of Research in Practice, a not-for-profit organisation that since 1996 has been supporting those who work with children, families and adults to use evidence in their practice and leadership.
This session will be a valuable learning opportunity for any professionals working with young people. Attendees will deepen their understanding of the challenges faced by adolescents in extra-familial contexts, such as peer influence, exploitation, and community-based risks.
Book your place on the Working with Adolescents virtual session.
Please note: if you're already booked on to the Contextual Safeguarding Launch in the Hudson Room at West Offices on this date, you don't need to book onto this separately as this keynote will be streamed into the room as part of that session.
Learning Masterclasses: Children's Rights
Published 31 December 2024.
The CYSCP are proud to present 2 upcoming Learning Masterclass sessions, which will be held online via Microsoft Teams.
These sessions will introduce York’s Children’s Rights Toolkit, a practical framework designed to help you embed children’s rights into everyday practice, evaluate where you stand on supporting children’s rights, and what steps you can take to realise them in meaningful ways.
The sessions are presented by Niall McVicar, Head of Innovation and Children’s Champion, and Dr. Jo Williams, Educational and Child Psychologist, both from the City of York Council.
Part 1: Introduction to children’s rights and the research evidence for rights-based approaches
Date and time: 18 February 2025, at midday.
Take part in Part 1 online via MyLO
Part 2: Rights in action - Introducing the children’s rights toolkit
Date and time: 12 March 2025, at midday.
Take part in Part 2 online via MyLO
To book a place, go to the course pages and select ‘Access this course’, then select ‘Sign-up’ next to the course date.
If you have any queries, contact us on email: [email protected].
Updated Early Help Assessment and Team Around The Family Forms
Published 20 December 2024.
Following consultation with early help colleagues and partners we're pleased to launch the updated Early Help Assessment and Team Around The Family Forms. An Early Help Assessment is a way of exploring with families what they would like support with. It can also help you to understand what is going well for a family, what they may need help with and who or which services can help them. The Assessment is a tool that can help organise these thoughts, create a plan of support and identify a possible team around the family, if needed.
We hope practitioners find the forms more user friendly but also more effective in identifying and coordinating support for families. This revised approach much better aligns with the Building Brighter Futures Practice Model and helps us all work together to keep children safe.
Full Guidance in the use of these new forms is also available. We would ask that partners delete copies of previous blank forms as we move to this new paperwork. Should you require any further help, contact the Supporting Families Team by email: [email protected] and a member of the team will respond to you; provide your phone number if you would prefer a call back.
To further support practitioners in the city, the Supporting Families Team has produced and is now sharing an “Early Help Resource Pack” The pack is available as a resource for anyone working with children, young people and families in the city.
It contains advice about early help processes and offers a range of tools and information about early help including assessment tools, sources of information to support families and ongoing workforce development opportunities.
Find these resources on the support for partners in delivering Early Help for families page.
Please note: these downloads may not be accessible to users of assistive technology. Request these documents in an accessible format.
Local protocol for assessment
Published 19 December 2024.
Information for professionals We know that navigating Children’s Services can be complex therefore this protocol has been developed to aid practitioners understanding of:
- what happens when a child is referred into Children’s Services
- the ‘Building Brighter Futures’ Practice Model and communication with children and their families
- lead practitioners
- responses to specific needs
- communication with children and their families
- how children and their families can make a complaint
This protocol should be read alongside the Continuum of Need document, CYSCP Procedures, Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 (.pdf) and the Children’s Social Care National Framework.
Read the local protocol for assessment.
York Carers Centre - LOVE January Festival
Published 18 December 2024.
York Carers Centre are excited to share information about their upcoming LOVE January festival - a month-long celebration of wellbeing and self-care, thoughtfully designed to rejuvenate carers after the busy festive season and encourage them to take some much-needed time for themselves.
It’s all about helping carers restore their incredible resilience and take some much-needed time for themselves, with opportunities for peer support, kindness, and fun.
Highlights include:
- adult carers - Wellbeing Hubs
- young adult carers - York Mind YorChoice visit and York St. John University carers café and campus tour
- doorstep drops (thanks to donations from Lush Cosmetics)
- FoodCircle pickling workshop
- young carers - youth club
- Mama Mia cinema trip
- mindfulness for all
Visit the York Carers Centre website for further information.
CYSCP Annual Reports 2024
Published 17 December 2024.
The CYSCP Annual Report 2023 to 2024 and the Annual Report of the Independent Scrutineer 2023 to 2024 have both been published and are now available to view on our website.