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Welcome to the Partnership Podcast - The P Pod, from the Somerset Safeguarding Children Partnership! Meet the agencies who will help you to support children, young people and their families across Somerset. Explore local and national learning and how to improve your safeguarding practice. If you would like to take part in a future podcast or have any questions or comments arising from any episodes we'd love you to contact us at theppod@somerset.gov.uk www.somersetsafeguardingchildren.org.uk
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Supporting Vicarious Trauma in the Police
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Get in touch with us at The P Pod In todays episode we speak with Mark Jackson, TRiM (Trauma Risk Management) Co-Ordinator for the Avon & Somerset Police who talks to us about the work he undertakes to support officers and wider police staff when they may have experienced trauma and the importance of embedding a Trauma Informed Approach throughout …
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Supporting Victims of Sexual Abuse - Special Extended Episode
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Get in touch with us at The P Pod In today's episode we hear first hand the devastating impact that abuse has on children and young people when we speak to a survivor of sexual abuse, who joins us to share her story to help us to learn how we can best support victims at the most critical times in their lives. Importantly though, we also speak with …
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Get in touch with us at The P Pod Today we're joined at the P Pod by our colleagues Lisa Hucker and Philippa Small from the Family Front Door, who are the front door for children's services in Somerset. In today's episode we talk about the role the front door plays in ensuring families receive the right help at the right time, and in particular wha…
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Get in touch with us at The P Pod Today sees the launch of the Somerset Trauma Informed Network so we've put together this special episode to introduce it to you and to find out what Trauma Informed Practice is, what it means for you, and how it can help the support offered to children and families. In todays episode we speak with a number of profe…
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Using Motivational Interviewing to Support Families (Pt.5) - Having Difficult Conversations
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Get in touch with us at The P Pod In today's episode I'm pleased to be joined again by MI Trainer, Jackie Webb and Consultant Social Worker Sharron Ricketts to continue our conversation about how MI can be used to support families and safeguard children. In previous episodes we've discussed how MI can be used to support change - but what about thos…
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Spiritual and Ritual Abuse, Including Accusations of Witchcraft
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Get in touch with us at The P Pod In todays episode we're joined by a real expert in his field, Jordan Alexander, CEO of Prism Training and Chair of the National Working Group of Abuse Linked to Faith or Belief. This is an area that many may have heard of, but few of us really understand the intricacies of so we're so pleased Jordan has taken the t…
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Get in touch with us at The P Pod In todays episode we speak with Anthony Goble, one of the Local Authority Designated Officers (LADO's) for Somerset, about the role of the LADO and their role in safeguarding children and supporting the process when an allegation is made against someone who works with children. If you'd like to find out more about …
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Get in touch with us at The P Pod In todays episode I speak with Chloe Deverell, Team Manager for Child Exploitation within Children Social Care about her experience of working in this field and the importance of everyone working together to safeguard and respond to concerns relating to the exploitation of children and young people. You can find de…
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Using Motivational Interviewing to Support Families (Pt.4) - MI in Practice
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Get in touch with us at The P Pod Today we bring you a special episode where Jackie Webb, MI Trainer and Consultant Social Worker Sharron Ricketts have agreed to join us to hold a live Motivational Interviewing conversation to demonstrate how MI can actually work in practice. If you've not hear our previous 3 episodes on MI with Jackie we strongly …
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Gaining the Voices of Children & Young People
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Get in touch with us at The P Pod In this episode we talk to Fiona Phur, Participation and Partnerships Business Manager, Paul Mitchell, Senior Partnership Engagement Officer and Gaby Sorgente, SEND Young People's Champion about how and why Children & Young People influence change across the Partnership. For further information on the topic discuss…
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Safeguarding Unborn Babies Through Complex Care Midwifery with Jayden Mills
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Get in touch with us at The P Pod In todays episode we speak with Jayden Mills, Complex Care Midwife with Somerset Foundation Trust (SFT) about how she and the WREN Team support parents with complex needs and ensure effective safeguarding in the Pre-Birth period. If you'd like to find out more about the WREN Team go to The WREN team - Maternity (so…
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Using Motivational Interviewing to Support Families (Pt.3) - Change Talk vs Sustain Talk
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Get in touch with us at The P Pod Motivational Interviewer Trainer, Jackie Webb, joins us for another episode where we further explore MI and how it can be used to support families. Today we begin to delve into some of the techniques that you can use in practice, and focus on promoting change through MI conversations. If you've not listened to Epis…
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Special Guardianship Orders - Donna Markham
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Get in touch with us at The P Pod We're joined again in the studio for todays episode by Donna Markham, Team Leader for the Kinship Team in Somerset's Children Social Care who this time talks to us about Special Guardianship Orders and other forms of care arrangements for Children & Young People. You can find out further details on SGO's and other …
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Get in touch with us at The P Pod In this episode we speak with Suzie Figg, Team Leader and Young Carers Lead for Somerset Council's Children's Services and Mel Bicknell, from Youth Unlimited CiC who is the Young Carers in Schools Award CoOrdinator about what it means to be a Young Carer and what support is available for them in Somerset. You can f…
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Get in touch with us at The P Pod Working Together to Safeguard Children has just been updated. We join Jasmine Wark, Business Manager of the SSCP Business Unit where she outlines to us what changes have taken place and what they mean for you. Documents referred to in this episode: Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 Working Together to Saf…
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Get in touch with us at The P Pod As we come towards the end of this year here's a roundup of what's been going on at The P Pod, and what's upcoming in 2024. Before the years out though we'll be bringing you a special bonus episode on the recent updates to Working Together to Safeguard Children which was published on the 15th December. Thank you to…
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Using Motivational Interviewing to Support Families (Pt.2) - Why is it so hard, when it seems so obvious??
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Get in touch with us at The P Pod We're joined back in the studio today by Jackie Webb, MI Trainer, who answers the fundamental question of why MI can be tricky to put into practice and what can be done to really be effective in supporting families to make positive change. Links: "Introduction to Motivational Interviewing Training" available in Som…
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Claire Winter, Executive Director - Children, Families & Education, Somerset Council
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Get in touch with us at The P Pod Today we speak with Claire Winter, Executive Director - Children, Families and Education for Somerset Council and member of the SSCP Executive Group where we discuss how the Local Authority work with partners to safeguard children. Please note – due to the nature of this podcast, themes relating to the abuse and ne…
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Reducing Parental Conflict - Ruth James, RPC CoOrdinator
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Get in touch with us at The P Pod In todays episode we speak with Ruth James, the Reducing Parental Conflict CoOrdinator for Somerset about how conflict within the home can affect children, and the support and resources that are in place to support families and practitioners. For further details of the support available go to Somerset children & yo…
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Using Motivational Interviewing (MI) to Support Families (Pt.1)
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Get in touch with us at The P Pod In this episode we speak with Jackie Webb, Motivational Interviewing Trainer and Consultant about the implementation of MI in Somerset, and how it can be used to support families to make change. MI was introduced into Somerset's Children's Services back in 2019 and has had a profound positive impact on professional…
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Safeguarding in the Police - Superintendent & Somerset Commander Dickon Turner
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Get in touch with us at The P Pod Today we speak with the Chair of the SSCP Executive Group, Superintendent Dickon Turner about the role the police play in the Partnership, as well as how they work together with agencies across the Avon & Somerset Region to safeguard children. Please note – due to the nature of this podcast, themes relating to the …
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Private Fostering Arrangements - Donna Markham
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Get in touch with us at The P Pod In todays episode we're joined by Donna Markham, Team Leader with Children Social Care's Kinship Team who talks to us about Private Fostering Arrangements, what they are, why they happen and the responsibilities we all have to notify the Local Authority of them. You can find out further information on Private Foste…
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Sally Shearer from the National Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
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Get in touch with us at The P Pod In this episode we speak with Sally Shearer OBE from the national Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel about the role of the Panel in supporting learning, national reviews and offers her advice on what makes effective safeguarding practice for children and young people. You can find out more about the work of t…
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Get in touch with us at The P Pod In this, our first episode, Training Manager Steve Macabee is joined in the studio by his colleagues from the SSCP Business Unit, Jasmine Wark - Business Manager and Rebecca Leggett - Policy & Projects Manager to answer the question, "So what exactly is a Partnership and what does it do?" Please note – due to the n…
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Dr. Jo Nicholl - Designated Doctor for Safeguarding Children
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Get in touch with us at The P Pod In this episode we speak with Dr. Jo Nicholl, Designated Doctor for Safeguarding Children about her day to day role, as well as her work with the Partnership. Please note – due to the nature of this podcast, themes relating to the abuse and neglect of children are discussed with the content being designed for an ad…
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Sexual Abuse & Harassment in Schools - Child on Child Abuse
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Get in touch with us at The P Pod WARNING - THIS EPISODE CONTAINS DISCUSSIONS ON THE TOPIC OF SEXUAL ABUSE AND LISTENER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. In 2021 Ofsted conducted the national thematic review into sexual harassment in schools and colleges, which subsequently led to a number of significant updates in Keeping Children Safe in Education later tha…
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Get in touch with us at The P Pod Welcome to the P Pod - The Partnership Podcast from the Somerset Safeguarding Children Partnership. Each episode we'll bring you interviews and discussions with the agencies and individuals who are involved in keeping children safe from harm, as well as exploring local and national learning and talking to young peo…
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