Safeguarding Newsletter - Issue 1
Issue 1 of the UnlockingChildren.co.uk Safeguarding Newsletter.
Training, Lessons Plans & Resources
Prevent duty training
Learn how to support people susceptible to radicalisation here with free e-learning from the Home Office.
Mental health resource hub
Here, you can download resources used in classrooms for wellbeing support.
Let’s Discuss – Fundamental British Values
This resource pack can help you discuss fundamental British values with your students.
Let’s Discuss – Extreme Right Wing
This resource pack can help you discuss the extreme right-wing with your students.
Safeguarding in the News
Sexual extortion rises as criminals become more ‘adept’ at targeting children
Children as young as 11 are being preyed on in sextortion scams, as criminal gangs are targeting younger victims and girls in an “exponential increase in cruelty”. [Read More]
Corecore: a TikTok Trend as Initiation to Incel Ideology
Corecore is a trend that gained popularity in 2022 on TikTok. Each video in the trend is a montage of multiple clips from disparate sources cut one after the other. [Read More]
Safeguarding Children in Elective Home Education
The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel published a brief briefing paper about protecting children in elective home education. [Read More]
Why language matters: rethinking the language of suicide
Case reviews also found that professionals often wrongly dismiss children’s suicide talk and other warning signs of teenage suicide as typical adolescent behaviour. [Read More]
Children Missing Education: The Unrolled Story
Every child has a fundamental right to an education, yet more than 100,000 children each year are being denied this basic right. [Read More]
Belongings of care children put in bin bags and lost
BBC Wales has spoken to children in care, and young care-leavers, who say they were made to move their belongings in bin bags and saw them go missing as a result. [Read More]
What do we now know about young carers’ attendance?
Research to be published later this month reveals stark findings about young carers’ attendance and education experiences. [Read More]