Redbridge local safeguarding children board

News:      11 December 2024

Fostering for Redbridge

Make this Christmas the most memorable yet for a child.  Change a Life.  Foster for Redbridge Council.

“I love watching the difference I can make to a child.  I love watching them succeed in life and to know I have made a difference to their life”.

Sarah, 51 and Kazim, 57, Foster Carers for Redbridge

“The thing I love most about fostering is seeing the progress children and young people make during the time they are with us. From surviving to thriving.  I also wish I was told what fun fostering is and the sense of community you feel when meeting with other foster carers for support, friendship and advice. You really aren’t on your own.”

Tracy, 56 and Wayne, 55, Foster Carers for Redbridge

Like all Redbridge foster carers, you could quite literally change a child’s life.

Please call 0208 708 6068 or visit the Local Authority’s website to book onto a Virtual Information Session.

Children’s Social Care Reform

The Department for Education (DfE) published on 18 November 2024 a policy statement outlining the Government’s commitment to reforming the children’s social care system in England. The report sets out reforms aiming to help keep families together and children safe, such as offering family group decision making to all families and introducing measures to strengthen multi-agency child protection, including plans for greater involvement of the education sector. It also outlines reforms to make the care system child-centred and to tackle profiteering amongst placement providers through greater regulation, transparency and caps placed on profits. Other proposals include enhanced support for kinship carers, foster carers and families with children who have disabilities; additional support for care leavers up to the age of 25; and the introduction of a Single Unique Identifier for children to help improve multi-agency information sharing.

RSCP Newsletter – Autumn Edition 2024

The new edition of the Newsletter is available to download via the link below:

Redbridge ‘One Panel’ – change of E-mail Address

As of 21 October, the ‘One Panel’ email address has changed.  Please send any referrals, queries or scoping forms to nelondonicb.onepanelredbridge@nhs.net .

Reminder – Redbridge Mental Health & Wellbeing Map

The Redbridge mental health and wellbeing map provides a wide range of local and on-line services.  The map is designed to be a one-stop-shop for accessing a range of mental health and wellbeing services including therapeutic support, social support groups, wellness activities and many more.  See link below.

Updated Redbridge ‘One Panel’ Guidance

Rapid Review Guidance

RSCP Training Programme 2024 – 2025

Many thanks to all of you who joined us over the previous academic year in your learning to safeguarding children in Redbridge.  We are delighted to share our new RSCP Training Programme for 2024/25.  Over 70 sessions are grouped into three series, key to your work with children and families :

  • Understanding Safeguarding Risks
  • Contextual Safeguarding & Child on Child Abuse
  • Creating Safer Settings for Children and Families

We hope you find something here for your continual professional development.

New sessions this year include:

To book your place on any of the courses, please use our online booking form.  You will see there are some courses that have ‘dates and times TBC’; please don’t try and book a place on those yet – we just want you to know they’re in the pipeline for this year!  For notes on training fees and cancellation policy, please click here and visit our website for full details of our training programme.  If you’ve received this email from someone else and you’d like to sign up to our mailing list, you can do so using our contact form.

Prevent Training Sessions

Connect Futures are offering a  free ‘virtual’ learning event – Challenging Extremism & Hate – Train the Trainer (see below):

  • Tuesday 28 January 2025 – 13:00 – 16:00 –   Eventbrite    –     Teams