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Did you know that we have recorded webinars that are CPD accredited? In our Emerging Insights webinar recordings, sector leaders share insight and perspectives about current critical issues and challenges in child protection. They can be claimed towards your CPD requirement: buff.ly/3M9J07O The topics covered: What we heard from the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in England and Wales. With Professor Alexis Jay and colleagues from the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in England and Wales. They discuss the Inquiry's findings, the work undertaken to support survivors and the impact of their evidence in informing the Inquiry's recommendations. Hidden in Plain Sight - Solutions to Protecting Teenagers from Exploitation and Harm With Anne Longfield CBE, Chair of the Commission on Young Lives, which recently produced a report with a national action plan and recommendations to support vulnerable teenagers to succeed and to protect them from adversity, exploitation and harm. Child Protection and Domestic Abuse: What new research tells us about thinking and doing things differently With Professor Brigid Featherstone, University of Huddersfield, and Professor Kate Morris, University of Sheffield where we explored new work to inform and advance responses to those who are being harmed and those who harm, to help and support children and their families. What does the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic and current cost-of-living crisis tell us about the connections between poverty, inequality and child protection? With Anna Gupta, Professor of Social Work at Royal Holloway University of London, John McKendrick, Professor of Social Justice at Glasgow Caledonian University and co-director of the Scottish Poverty and Inequality Research Unit and Lisa Bunting, Professor of Child and Family Social Work at Queen's University Belfast. Supporting the shared responsibility to identify and respond to child criminal exploitation now In which speakers from Action for Children and The Children and Young People's Centre for Justice, discuss some of the complex challenges around multi-agency partnerships being able to identify and respond to the criminal exploitation of children. Protecting children and the risk of online sexual abuse: what do we need to know? With speakers from Police Scotland, Internet Watch Foundation and the Lucy Faithfull Foundation. They discuss the potential impact of online harm in the lives of children and young people across Scotland, including from Artificial Intelligence (AI), and what is being done to take action on offending.

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The Scottish Physical Restraint Action Group received funding from the Promise Partnership to co-design and develop the Reflection and Action Learning Forum. Find out more about the project during the first part of its funding period in the project update: https://buff.ly/3yWsQvG

What does Quality Improvement look like in practice? Through a series of recorded webinars and more, the @CELCIStweets' PACE delivery team and Scottish local authority colleagues discuss key themes including data, and participation: https://buff.ly/462ayDY

Did you know that we have CPD accredited recorded webinars? In our Emerging Insights webinar recordings, sector leaders share insight about current critical issues and challenges in child protection. They can be claimed towards your CPD requirement: buff.ly/3M9J07O

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SPRAG (the Scottish Physical Restraint Action Group), facilitated by CELCIS, has published a response to the Scottish Government’s Proposed Learning Disabilities, Autism and Neurodivergence Bill Consultation: https://buff.ly/4dHBBJl

The development of RALF has been possible through funding from The Promise Partnership and the commitment of members of the Scottish Physical Restraint Action Group. I am very proud of what has been achieved so far. Thanks to everyone who has supported and been involved.