On this page:Wandsworth Partnership for Children and Young People Strategies and Plans Safeguarding Promotional Material Database for Activities and Events Useful links Common Acronyms Archived articles ResourcesWandsworth Partnership for Children and Young People Strategies and PlansThe Children and Young People's Plan, the "CYPP", is the single strategic plan for the Partnership. It doesn't include every piece of work going on in the borough; instead it focuses on those areas where the partners must work together to improve outcomes for children and young people. We are keen to ensure that the CYPP reflects the views of local children and young people, their families and all the people working with them across the borough. You can read and download copies of the full CYPP or Executive Summary by clicking here: Children and Young People's Plan 2011-2015 For a full list of the Wandsworth Partnership for Children and Young People Strategies & Plans click here. Safeguarding promotional material - handbooks, poster campaigns and leafletsWandsworth Safeguarding Children Board has been proactive in raising awareness about safeguarding issues through a number of poster campaigns. We have produced a 'Safer Parenting Handbook', a 'Youths - handbook for young people', leaflets aimed at the general public and information cards for all staff (paid or unpaid) who work wtih children and young people. Through participation and engagement from children and young people we produced the above mentioned 'Youths' - handbook for young people, as well as using designs created by children and young people for our e-Safety poster campaign, Anti-bullying poster campaign and most recently, producing mousemats with messages/tips on how to keep safe whilst using the Internet. We have also had articles printed in local press, etc. If you require any promotional material, please contact the WSCB. Tel. 020 8871 8610 Database for Activities and EventsWandsworth Borough Council have just launched a new database of activities, events and educational opportunities for young people and children taking place in and around Wandsworth on their website. You can search the database by category or even find activities on the dates which you're interested in. Go to www.wandsworth.gov.uk/activities for more information Useful LinksUnited Nations Convention on the rights of the Child United Nations Convention on the rights of the Child Common Acronyms:Click here for a list of common acronyms. Archived articles and informatione-Safety Strategy - safeguarding children and young people in the digital world & Mousemat competitionThe WSCB is pleased to confirm that an e-Safety Strategy for borough-wide use has been developed and approved by the WSCB on 5th February 2009. Local guidelines has also being developed to assist all settings in safeguarding children and young people effectively in the digital world. Hard copies of the e-Safety Strategy will be produced and distributed borough-wide in the near future. A 'Keeping safe online' mousemat competition took place, inviting all children and young people aged 5-18 years old, to submit a design for a mousemat that tells their friends how to keep and be safe whilst using the Internet, digital and mobile technology. There were two categories: one for the age group 5-11 and the other for age group 12-18. We received an overwhelming response, which we were delighted with. All the entries were very creative and it was hard to choose a winner for each category. After much consideration and keeping the key focus on the 'keeping safe online' message, we choose one winner for each of the categories, which we felt gave a very clear message of things to consider when a child or young person is online and therefore how to keep themselves safe whilst using the Internet. Two runners-up were also selected for each category. The winners and runners-up for the two categories were:
The prizegiving was held at Wandsworth Town Hall on 11th December 2008. All the prize winners and their families were invited to attend. The prizes were handed out to the winners and runners up by Councillor Tracey, Cabinet Member for Children & Young People's Services and Paul Robinson, Chair of WSCB. Many photos were taken, which can be viewed below. Both winning designs have now been produced and are being distributed to all schools, youth clubs, libraries, ICT suites, etc. across the borough. The prizegiving event was combined with a presentation to say thank you to another group of young people and their families who participated and contributed to Wandsworth's Children and Young People's Plan (CYPP) and Parenting Strategy. Again, a big thank you and congratulations to all 6 prize winners for their participation in the competition and sharing their views through their designs with other children and young people on how to keep themselves safe online. Anti-Bullying Week 2008 - Children and Young People Consultation Events - 19th & 21st November 2008There were two events for children and young people held during Anti-Bullying week. One event for secondary aged pupils held on 19th November and one for primary aged pupils held on the 21st November. The events included a specially commissioned piece of drama performed by young people from a local drama group, High Star Production Company, on the theme of bullying. The rest of the half day session was a carousel of workshops designed to encourage discussion around various aspects of the strategy and to gather children and young people's views about anything that was missing and how to implement most effectively the key areas of the strategy. Themes of the workshops were:
It was a very successful event, with positive feedback from both children and young people who attended, as well as their teachers. The children and young people engaged positively in all the various workshops (see photos of events below). One of the Primary Schools that attended, Hotham Primary, delivered a similar style event within their school following this event, which was largely facilitated by the young people who attended the event on the 19th November. To view some of the photos were taken at both events, please click on the links below. 19th November 2008 - Event for Secondary Schools 21st November 2008 - Event for Primary Schools WSCB Annual Report 2008/09 & Action Plan 2009/10Every now and again the impact of a single incident leads to a major review of arrangements for keeping children safe. The death of Victoria Climbiι was the driver for the "Every Child Matters" agenda and the more recent death of Baby Peter in Haringey lead to Lord Laming's review and the recent government response. The review confirmed that robust legislative, structural and policy foundations are in place and that the ECM reforms set the right direction. Lord Laming was equally clear that more needed to be done to ensure best practice is universally applied and that more support needed to be provided for the front line workforce. Wandsworth Safeguarding Children Board is still relatively new. This annual report gives a flavour of the enormity of the agenda and the balance that must be struck between focusing on those most at risk and requiring protection and the broader safeguarding responsibilities which must also be addressed. It is difficult for the report to do justice to the twin requirements of establishing strong multi-agency working underpinned by practical procedures and policies and the professional challenge which must exist across agencies to secure the safety of children and young people. Nonetheless this is what the WSCB has achieved. Good professional dialogue and practice is being supported by excellent multi-agency working. This is a good foundation from which to progress but much still needs to be done and 2009/10 is likely to be a busy one. Paul Robinson
Feedback from Children and Young People's Participation at the Anti-bullying Events held in Noveber 2008In 2008, Wandsworth's Anti-bullying Strategy was published and a copy of this can be found in your school, youth club, college and online. The strategy aims to reduce the chances of bullying happening to children and young people in Wandsworth and is made up of five strands, the first of which focuses on children and young people's participation. So, to encourage the children and young people of Wandsworth to get involved, we asked you for your thoughts and feelings about bullying. The theme of Anti-bullying Week 2008 was "Celebrating diversity: being different, belonging together". To celebrate diversity, Wandsworth's Safeguarding Children Board (WSCB) held events where children and young people from primary, secondary and special schools came together to express their views about bullying. Annual Report 2007/08 & Business Plan 2008/09Please click here to access the WSCB's Annual Report & Business Plan 2008/09. Appendix 2a & 2b - WSCB Executive & Main Board Membership Flowchart of WSCB Structure
Annual Review Report - September 2007The Chair of the Wandsworth Safeguarding Children Board, who is also the Chief Executive and Director of Administration of the Council, completed his annual review report on the progress on safeguarding children and young people in Wandsworth and the work of the Wandsworth Safeguarding Children Board. |
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