One-Minute Reads

Quick resources you can read in a minute. 

Domestic Abuse: Lucie Welch has created a two-page resource about domestic abuse.  She explains the types of abuse, how children may be affected, and tips for supporting victims.

Gender Bias – What is it and why is it a problem? Lucie Welch has created a two-page resource you can share with all your colleagues about gender bias.  She explains what it is, how it might manifest consciously or unconsciously through language or behaviour and how it might even feature in our curriculum. The resource describes how staff can recognise and then address this and talks of what the consequences long-term might be if this is not addressed.

Type IV FGM Labia Elongation: Whilst all staff should be familiar with the concept of FGM, one type of this harmful practice isn’t spoken of as often in training. Jo Perrin has developed a resource focussing on what exactly it is, discussing the law around it and explaining why communities may practice this. 

Upskirting: Jo Perrin has produced a resource about the topic of upskirting that can be shared with staff to quickly introduce or refresh this specific safeguarding concern, which we know is prevalent across society.

The resource breaks the topic into key questions and answers describing what it is, the law surrounding the topic, the prevalence, the reasons why people might commit this act and then a longer section giving strategies of how to empower and support young people.

Affluent Neglect: This topic is something delegates on our DSL update course have been asking for more information about. Jo talks about what it is and how it’s hard to spot. She explains what we should look out for and how to attempt to engage with parents about this issue.

We have picked a few hot topics and broken them down into suggestions of how you can tackle these in your setting under the following headings:

Raising the topic, Questions to discuss and What can you do?

• PARENTAL SEPARATION – DOWNLOAD
• TALKING TO PRIMARY CHILDREN ABOUT EMOTIONAL HEALTH –  DOWNLOAD
• PARENTAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE – DOWNLOAD
• CHILD SUBSTANCE ABUSE – DOWNLOAD
• EMOTIONAL NEGLECT – DOWNLOAD
• CHILDREN WITH A PARENT IN PRISON – DOWNLOAD
• PREVENTING RADICALISATION – DOWNLOAD
• COERCIVE TEENAGE RELATIONSHIPS – DOWNLOAD