Primary AGENDA - Wales

“A resource for practitioners who want to empower children (age 7-11) to make positive relationships matter in their schools and communities"

"An online guide with equality, inclusivity, children’s rights and social justice at its heart”

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Multi-agency working

“Multi-agency working is key to effective safeguarding and child protection (Sidebotham et al, 2016).

Children and their families will access a range of services throughout a child's life. It's vital that practitioners work together to gain a full overview
of a child's situation and have a co-ordinated approach to support.

Case reviews in each of the UK nations emphasise the importance of information sharing and collaboration between agencies so that professionals can fully understand any risks a child may be exposed to and take appropriate action to keep them safe.

We’ve pulled together learning for best practice about multi-agency working from analyses of case reviews across the UK and Ofsted’s analysis of joint targeted area inspection (JTAI) reports in England. See the references tab for details of these reports.”

NSPCC Learning accessed 04.03.19

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""Permission to share? Young people struggle to resolve “consent confusion” online""

In an increasingly digitised world, with young people sharing a variety of content every day, 65% say they would feel disconnected from the world if they couldn’t be online. Helping them to make sense of their daily lives and wider society, 70% of young people say being online helps them understand what’s happening in the world and 60% only know about certain issues or news because of the internet.

Crucially, young people are using the internet as a safe space to understand and navigate topics they’re nervous to ask about, with 67% saying it’s easier to learn about them online. Encouragingly, the internet has helped almost half (46%) through a difficult time.

With technology enabling us to connect and learn faster than ever, 48% of young people say being online makes them feel like their voices and actions matter. Maximising on the collective power of the internet, 42% have been inspired to take positive action by sharing support for a campaign, social movement or petition.

However, the myriad of ways in which young people connect online means they must also navigate the complexities of asking for and giving permission before sharing. Young people have a strong sense of right and wrong online, with an overwhelming 84% believing everyone has a responsibility to respect others. However, in practice almost half (48%) admit their peers don’t always think before they post. 36% of young people are sharing screenshots of other peoples’ photos, comments or messages at least weekly.

(Adapted from Safer Internet Day Press Release 2019 05 February 2019

05 February 2019

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On My Mind

"On My Mind aims to empower young people to make informed choices about the mental health support they want, the treatments they receive and the outcomes they desire.

It contains information, advice and resources to help young people support their own mental health, including signposting to sources of support in times of crisis and tools to help young people manage their own wellbeing. 

The free digital resources are designed for use by children and young people between the ages of 10 – 25. These may be young people who are thinking about looking for support, who may be receiving or waiting to receive support or for those the traditional offer does not appeal to or has not worked for and who want help and information about self-managing their own mental health and wellbeing.

Co-produced with young people to help other young people"

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"National Lottery-funded HeadStart programme"

"These are the latest findings from a pioneering survey of over 30,000 young people (aged 11 to 14) collected as part the National Lottery-funded HeadStart programme by the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families and UCL’s Evidence Based Practice Unit.

The research highlights the link between mental health difficulties, lower academic attainment and persistent absence from school. It also finds that pupils excluded from school consistently have higher levels of behavioural problems, difficulties with peers and attention difficulties than their peers."

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Addiction Rooted In Childhood Trauma, Says Prominent Specialist By Rob Waters January 10, 2019

"All addictions — alcohol or drugs, sex addiction or internet addiction, gambling or shopping — are attempts to regulate our internal emotional states because we’re not comfortable, and the discomfort originates in childhood. For me, there’s no distinction except in degree between one addiction and another: same brain circuits, same emotional dynamics, same pain and same behaviors of furtiveness, denial and lying."

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Mental health services: survey

"Stem4, a charity which works to prevent mental ill health in teenagers, has published results from a survey of 1,000 GP's across the UK about their views on children and young people accessing mental health services. Findings include: 99 per cent of GP's fear that young people may come to harm while waiting to access specialist mental health treatment; 90 per cent of GP's believe that mental health services for children and young people aged 11- to 18-years-old are inadequate; 88 per cent of GP's said that it was either impossible or very difficult for their patients to access treatment for anxiety"

From NSPCC CASPAR: current awareness service for practice, policy and research 07.01.19 
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