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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. 

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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.

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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

18 August 2020

Multi-agency audit: Responding to Childhood & Adolescent Neglect

Earlier this year, the LSCP completed a multi-agency audit of the partnership's response to childhood & adolescent neglect. The audit highlights the importance of relationships, the need to fully understand a family's complex context and the positive opportunities offered by Family Group Conferences. Read more here. 

Connie Wessels