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A follow up Conversation on Transitional Safeguarding

To follow up from Webinar 12, we had a further discussion with Dez Holmes, regarding Transitional Safeguarding, where Dez reflected on sttements and questions posted by attendees on our forum. This is member content only, so you will need to be signed in to view. If you would like to access this content, and any of the other member content, please email alison@theasp.org.uk to enquire about membership.

Register for Latest Webinar

Thank you to those who have been attending and joining our ongoing discussion on issues and concerns for Safeguarding Partnerships during lockdown. We are so pleased to have so many of you engaging in these issues. We are very pleased to announce our next Webinar. Details below! 

Webinar 15

Children not in School and Elective Home Education

22nd March, at 4pm

This Webinar will cover emerging issues with Children not in School and re-visit continual concerns in relation to Elective Home Education and balancing the moral and social obligation of ensuring a child is safe AND being suitably educated. 

REGISTER FOR WEBINAR 15

We have also confirmed our Webinar dates for the first six months of the year so the remaining dates are below, so that you can pencil these into your diaries!

We hope to cover Business Managers & the Business Unit (Changing Roles); Children in Care Review, Austerity, Poverty & Safeguarding Adults and Children & Rapid Reviews & CSPRs.

Our webinars are member driven, so do keep sharing ideas and concerns. If you haven't joined TASP yet, please do consider membership to help us help you. All our Webinars are recorded and shared for members on our website, as well as support materials from each topic.

We believe that all the challenges discussed in our webinars are linked in many ways. We hope you will join us for the next webinar and contribute to our discussion and learning. To register in advance use the link above. Confirmation emails with information on joining the Zoom calls will be received. This is a manual process of approval, so don’t worry if you don’t get it immediately. 

Limited spaces available, open to all but priority given to TASP members.

In addition, TASP members can log into our website at any time and watch the recorded webinar sessions, if they were unable to attend, or wanted to go back to view a particular part of a discussion. The past webinars are listed below. The link, slides of presentations and all support materials from these events are only available to members. If you are interested in joining, there is more information here.

TASP Forum

TASP runs and ongoing forum to manage the convesation between presenters and attendees and to spark debate amongst colleagues. To participate with the ongoing online discussion click the button below:

ONLINE DISCUSSION  

Webinar 1

Colleagues were invited to identify and prioritise the most important topics to their partnerships. The webinar is available to watch, and the slides and report are all available to TASP Members by clicking on the image above.

Webinar 3

We heard how local authorities were supporting and engaging vulnerable children and their families during lockdown, and we heard how family court proceedings were continuing. The webinar is available to watch, and the slides and reports are all available to TASP members by clicking on the image above.

Webinar 5

We heard from the Met Police and how they were supporting vulnerable children through re-deployment of resources during lockdown and we were joined by Kings College, who discussed their impending research on Protecting Children at a distance: Investigating and strengthening child safeguarding and protection responses during the Covid19 lockdown. The webinar is available to watch, and the slides and reports are all available to TASP Members by clicking on the image above.

Webinar 7

Following the high profile news reports on Black Lives Matter, TASP ran its first Racism in Safeguarding Webinar. Vijay Patel, Business Manager at the Luton Safeguarding Partnership discussed personal reflections on Race and Safeguarding and Jasvinder Sanghera OBE presented professional and personal views on Culture vs. Safeguarding. The webinar is available to watch, and the slides and reports are all available to Tasp Members by clicking the image above.

Webinar 9

Back and refreshed from a summer break, Webinar 9  brought two speakers; Margaret Mulholland, from the Associations of School and College Leaders ASCL, who is their national lead on SEND (among other things) and Tracy McAspurn, from the Quality Improvement and Support Team in Calderdale. The webinar is available to watch, and the slides and reports are all available to TASP Members by clicking on the image above.

Webinar 11

We invited Sir Alan Wood to  to update us on his review of Multi-agency Safeguarding and and have an open conversation regarding his plans for stage 2 of this review. The conversation worked within the framework of four key topics.

• Structural
• Leadership
• Impact on Practice
• Independence & Scrutiny

As part of TASP's ongoing conversations, we collated feedback from colleagues for these areas and any other miscellaneous points for consideration. These were fed back to Sir Alan. The ongoing forum remains open, until 12th November, for all colleagues to continue to provide their experiences and issues. Colleagues can do so here

Richard Burrows and Jenny Pearce, TASP Trustees, also fed back interim results on TASP's Independence and Scrutiny Survey. This is also still open until 12th November. It should only take a few minutes to share your local experiences to assist TASP in developing a strong evidence base to feedback to National Stakeholders. Colleagues can do so here

Webinar 13

In our first webinar of 2021 we aimed to provide a review of some upcoming topics of interest as well as provide a "health check" for Partnerships, with an open conversation with webinar attendees sharing issues and concerns and highlights of what is working and what there is to look forward to in 2021. Specifcally, Chris Miller provided a Domestic Abuse Bill update and Laura Anderson joined us from the DWP to explain a new safeguarding stream of work. The webinar is available to watch, and the slides and reports are all available to TASP Members by clicking on the image above

Webinar 2

Three colleagues shared responses to Covid19 and how this has led to change and innovation. The webinar is available to watch, and the slides and reports are all available to TASP Members by clicking on the image above.

Webinar 4

Sarah Elliott, from the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel presented the trends in relation to Serious Incident Notifications and Rapid Reviews during Covid19
& Mick Brims & David Goosey from Lewisham Safeguarding Children Partnership shared their experiences of Rapid Reviews. The webinar is available to watch, and the slides and reports are all available to TASP Members by clicking on the image above.

Webinar 6

John Drew & Dr Carlene Firmin MBE joined us to discuss Contextual Safeguarding and colleagues were invited to consider fundamental questions to Safeguarding Responses to contextual concerns. The webinar is available to watch, and the slides and reports are all available to TASP Members by clicking on the image above.

Webinar 8

We were joined by Sarah Mann, a Charity Director for Friends, Families and Travellers a charity set up to end racism and discrimination against Gypsies, Travellers and Roma & Alison Smith, a practising Social Worker from Surrey with Gypsy Romany heritage and were we discussed Culture and Faith in Traveller communities and Local Authority engagement with Traveller communities. Thsi webinar is available to watch, and the slides and reports are available to download to all our TASP members by clicking on the image above.

Webinar 10

We invited Dr Aisha Hutchinson & Dr Jenny Driscoll from Kings College to update us on their research, having spoken to us on Webinar 5, followed by a discussion on
how Partnerships approach Independent Scrutiny. Jenny Pearce, an Independent Scrutineer and Trustee of TASP was joined by Nicky Pace (also a Scrutineer) to lead the discussion. The webinar is available to watch, and the slides and reports are all available to TASP Members by clicking on the image below. As part of the project, TASP is also undergoing a short research project to capture the range of interpretations of the IS requirement and issues Safeguarding Partnerships have in relation to new arrangements. The result of this survey will also be shared with Members shortly.

Webinar 12

Dez Holmes, Director of Research in Practice, joined us to discuss Transitional Safeguarding covering the case for change, spotting gaps and spanning boundaries, Risk, Resilience, Protection and Participation and planning for change. Colleagues were invited to reflect on their own local experience and to share good practice/issues and concerns. The webinar is available to watch, and the slides and reports are all available to TASP Members by clicking on the image above.