Thursday 9 October
NEWS RELEASE
Safeguarding Board issues “Child Sexual Exploitation Definition and Guidance for Professionals in NI”
The Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland (SBNI) has issued an agreed Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) Definition and Guidance for Professionals working in a safeguarding capacity (eg health and social care, policing, youth justice and education) in NI.
The first Annual Report of the Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland to 31 March 2014 has been published and is available online here.
Tuesday 24 June 2014
NEWS RELEASE
“THE MORE YOU KNOW THE MORE YOU SEE”
Safeguarding Board Child Sexual Exploitation campaign begins
The inaugural meeting of the Safeguarding Board for NI’s (SBNI) e-Safety Forum has taken place in Belfast.
The Forum, set up as a recommendation as a result of research taken forward by the SBNI, has been developed with the key aim of keeping children and young people safe when they are in the ‘digital world’.
As the use of communication technology has grown, it is no longer enough to consider child safety in a purely ‘real world’ focus. To safeguard our children and young people, we must recognise that a greater percentage of children’s time is spent connected to the online world and that this world poses risks as well as benefits.
Date: Thursday 5th June 2014
Venue: Ballymote Centre, Downpatrick
Time: 9.30AM - 1.00PM
Date: Thursday 22nd May 2014
Venue: Lecture Theatre, Education Centre Level 2, South West Acute Hospital, 124 Irwinstown Road, Enniskillen, BT74 6DN
Time: 9.15 am – 1.00pm
This workshop will seek to engage with frontline staff across all agencies and disciplines in relation to safeguarding and has three elements:
Date: Friday 6th June 2014
Venue: Knockbracken Hall
Time: 9.30AM - 1.00PM
As part of the Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland’s (SBNI) campaign to raise awareness around Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE), SBNI are keen to engage with facilitator-led groups of Children and Young People; and Parents in order to shape Phase 2 of the campaign. This will begin in Autumn 2014 and will be specifically targeted at children, young people and parents.
Wednesday 22 January 2014
NEWS RELEASE
Northern Ireland research report on e-safety published by Safeguarding Board