If you are worried about a child, report your concerns.
Safeguarding during a pandemic
In these challenging times, professionals in organisations and services throughout Lambeth continue to work tirelessly to keep children and young people safe. To support you, we will use this page to share helpful resources and services.
What's new?
15 January 2020
Find out more about becoming a foster carer
Lambeth’s Fostering Team urgently need more foster carers to take care of specific groups of vulnerable children.
Fostering means taking a child into your home and welcoming them into your family. This is likely to be at a difficult time when they will need love, support, and stability.
Come along to the team's next online information event is at 7pm on Thursday 21 January to find out more. Register here!
Connie Wessels
27 November 2020
Feed your views into our multi-agency audit of FGM
We are conducting a multi-agency audit of the partnership's response to girls and young women who are at risk of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). If you work in Lambeth, please share your views through this short staff survey by 4 December 2020. Your views will inform our audit and to help us plan future training and resources.
Connie Wessels
17 September 2020
NSPCC Briefing: Impact of pandemic on child welfare: physical abuse
Since the stay-at-home guidance was issued, Childline has seen a 22 per cent increase in the number of counselling sessions about physical abuse. Download this briefing from NSPCC which highlights the impact if this physical abuse on children & young people during the pandemic.
Connie Wessels
14 January 2020
Domestic Abuse support -
Ask for ANI at a pharmacy
People at risk of domestic abuse during the coronavirus lockdown can seek help discreetly by giving a code word "Ani" to pharmacists, under a UK-wide scheme launched by ministers.
If someone asks for “Ani” at one of the participating pharmacies, they will be given the chance to go to a private space to talk, to see if they need help from police or other services.
Visit the Home Office for the training toolkit for pharmacies
Connie Wessels
3 November 2020
Could you be a foster carer hero? Q+A Session
Fostering for children in Lambeth means taking a child into your home and welcoming them into your family. This is likely to be at a difficult time when they will really be in need a lot of love, support and stability. When you become a foster carer, you become a local hero.
Find out more about fostering, join a live online information event on 19 November at 7pm. Book your place now!
Shkelqim Luma
12 September 2020
Understanding the lived experiences of black & ethnic minority children
Download this briefing from Research in Practice and others that focusses on black and ethnic minority children as these groups of children are over-represented in children’s social work, but have unique issues as a result of various marginalised identities.
Connie Wessels
1 December 2020
Could you lead a child safeguarding practice review?
We are looking for researchers, academics and organisations to help us independently review our efforts to safeguard children and young people.
We are currently commissioning a Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review. Could you be the independent reviewer to help us improve practice?
Connie Wessels
21 October 2020
Culturally competent responses to youth violence
In September, Power The Fight published the Therapeutic Intervention for Peace
report. Commissioned by the Mayor of London’s Violence Reduction Unit, the report aims to evidence the experiences of young people, families and practitioners in order to improve the effectiveness of therapeutic responses to violence affecting young people in London. Download here
Connie Wessels