Latest Safeguarding News
DBS are set to launch a new 'Save and Return' feature for its online Barring Referral Service, to make submitting a barring referral easier and more convenient.
Source: Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) published on this website Wednesday 30 April 2025 by Jill Powell
The DBS Barring Referral Service is the online route that individuals or organisations who want to make a barring referral can use to submit their referral.
To improve this service, DBS is launching a new ‘Save and Return’ feature enabling users to save their progress when making referra...
Read More..........BBC Workplace Culture Review Report: Respect at Work April 2025
Source: BBC News published on this website Tuesday 29 April 2025 by Jill Powell
The report into the review was published on the 28 April 2025 and has been undertaken on the BBC’s behalf by Change Associates in response to the guilty pleas of Hugh Edwards into inappropriate behaviour at work.
This follows the earlier Respect at Work Review 2013 following the Jimmy Savile scandal.
In the Introduc...
Read More..........New rules for a safer generation of children online
Source: Ofcom published on this site Monday 28 April 2025 by Jill Powell
Ofcom finalises child safety measures for sites and apps to introduce from July
Tech firms must act to prevent children from seeing harmful content
Changes will mean safer social feeds, strong age checks and more help and control for children online
Children in the UK will have safer online lives, under transform...
Read More..........Toughest measures yet to protect children from knife content
Source: Home Office published on this website Friday 25 April 2025 by Jill Powell
Even tougher action to hold tech platforms to account for failing to protect children from harmful knife crime content online, the government has announced.
As part of the Plan for Change, tougher sanctions will be brought in to combat the unacceptable content circulating online that advertises deadly and illegal k...
Read More..........Officers partner with schools using automatic referrals to protect children at risk of domestic abuse
Source: Staffordshire Poilce published on this website Thursday 24 April 2025 by Jill Powell
The Staffordshire police are working with participating schools across the county as part of a national scheme focusing on identifying and protecting children at risk of domestic abuse, with officers using an automatic alert system to make safeguarding referrals.
The national scheme, called Op...
Read More..........Victim of stalking shares her experience of the FOUR behaviours of stalking
Source: Suffolk Police published on this website Wednesday 23 April 2025
“He appeared at my workplace regularly, sometimes multiple times a day… I was safe with security and cameras all over and people that knew of the situation… The times I saw him outside work were even more terrifying… It disturbed me thinking about his confidence to go an arms-length close to me… where he isn’t being monitore...
Read More..........Mencap responds to latest data on the inappropriate detention of people with a learning disability and/or autistic people.
Source: Mencap published on this website Tuesday 22 April 2025 by Jill Powell
Latest data highlights major concerns on the inappropriate detention of people with a learning disability and/or autistic people. Mencap, along with The Challenging Behaviour Foundation, National Autistic Society and other organisations have written to the Minister of State for Care, S...
Read More..........Met brings leader of fraud platform to justice
Source: Metropolitan Police published on this website Thursday 17 April 2025 by Jill Powell
A massive worldwide operation led by the Met has seen a prolific cyber-criminal sent to prison for eight-and-a-half years.
Zak Coyne, 23 (22.02.01) of Woodbine Road, Huddersfield, was sentenced for leading a website used by more than 2,000 criminals to defraud victims all over the world.
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Read More..........Man jailed after dealing drugs in a play area.
Source: South Wale Poilce published on this website Wednesday 16 April 2025 by Jill Powell
On November 30, 2024, Officers from the Organised Crime Unit witnessed a drug exchange in a children's play area at Heol Yr Osaf, Pontyclun.
The man was stopped and identified as Courtney Jones,38 from Talbot Green. He was searched where he was found to be in possession of six deal bags of cocaine. Followi...
Read More..........CPS authorises manslaughter charges following nursery death of toddler Noah Sibanda
Source: Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) published on this website Tuesday 15 April 2025
Malcolm McHaffie, Head of the Crown Prosecution Service’s Special Division, said:
“Following a review of the evidence provided by West Midlands Police, we have authorised criminal charges in relation to the death of a 14-month-old child at a nursery in Dudley. “Noah Sibanda died following a...
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