Visit the Speak Up, Stand Up, Stop Exploitation! section of the Knowledge Hub

Information and resources for practitioners, communities and local businesses includes training and guidance to help identify, disrupt and prevent child exploitation in the Wakefield area.

You will find information on:

• Child Criminal Exploitation
• Child Sexual Exploitation
• Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
• Missing from Home and Care
• Online Exploitation
• Child Financial Exploitation
• Extra Familial Harm
• #SpeakUpStandUp campaign materials

Domestic Abuse

• Podcast: Children never just witness Domestic Abuse by NSPCC Learning
• Podcast: Domestic Abuse by Safeguarding Days
• Podcast: Experiences of domestic abuse as a child and mental ill health by SafeLives
• Podcast: Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control
• Video: Real Life Domestic Abuse Story Ted Talk – Emma Murphy
• Video: Why Doesn’t she just Leave? Women’s Refuge – Women’s Refuge
• Video: Domestic Abuse & COVID-19 – Anna Tomlinson
• Video: Domestic Abuse Act 2021- Wakefield Strategic Domestic Abuse Team

Forced Marriage, Honour Based Abuse & FGM

• e-learning; Female Genital Mutilation – Recognising & Preventing FGM by Home Office & Virtual College
• Video: Forced Marriage & Honour Based Abuse – Kerry Murphy
• Podcast: FileOn4 Mama Sylla's FGM Story
• Online Training: Awareness of Forced Marriage Virtual College
• Online Training: Building Confidence to challenge Honour Based Abuse and Forced Marriage

• Podcast: Talking mental health (how to talk to children about it) Dr Rangan Chatterjee talks to Matt Haigh
• Podcast: How our childhood shapes every aspect of our health with Dr Gabor Mate by Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
• WF-I-CAN.co.uk accessing the new children and young people’s support website – Denise Wheatman & Emily Castle
• NEW Video - I'm Lucy - Children should not be a protective factor!
• Video: Brief Introduction to Resilience Framework – Denise Wheatman & Emily Castle
• Video: Children & Young People Emotional Well Being – Denise Wheatman & Emily Castle
• Video: Hunger: A practical resource for family practitioners on physical and emotional hunger – Karen Thomas, Registered Dietitian
• Video: Self-Harm – An animated film by young people NHS Foundation Trust – Made for Tees Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
• Video: Sleep and Health: Optimising sleep potential for physical and emotional wellbeing – Sarah Kendrick
• Video: Words Can Hurt - by Childline
• Compass Website: Emotional & Mental Wellbeing service, across the Wakefield District for Children & Young People

• NEW: Coming out as Trans
• NEW: The Cass review
• LGBTQIA+ people and domestic abuse
• Podcast: Safeguarding Transgender Children
• Video: Mike’s Story by Barnardo’s
• Webinars: Working with the Seldom Heard the LGBTQ+ community by Working Together Training & Development Programme
• Wakefield Council Inclusive Language glossary
• NEW: Legal Framework
• NEW: Guidance

• Learning Exchange Event July 25: Disrupting Exploitation
• Learning Exchange Event Dec 24: National Referral Mechanism
• Learning Exchange Event Sept 24: From Information to Intelligence
• Video: Serious Youth Violence (SGW June 2024)
• Video: Trauma: A Lifespan Perspective (SGW June 2023)
• Video: Perplexing Presentations and Fabricated or Induced Illness (Feb 2023)
• Video: NWG Transitions from adolescence to adulthood (SGW June 2022)
• Video: Children Vulnerable to Exploitation (March 2022)
• Video: Safeguarding Babies & Infants (Sep 2021)

• Video: Michelle's story - LSCBx3
• Video: 'How to' guide to the WSCP Neglect Toolkit – Karron Zelei
• Video & Slides: Child Neglect and Poverty Aware Practice – Dr Susannah Bowyer
• Theraputic interventions after abuse or neglect
• Protective Factors in Neglect
• Tools, training and reading material

• Podcast: Groomed through gaming: The murder of teenager Breck Bednar by Safeguarding Days
• Podcast: How social media could be making you ill by Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
• Video: Summary of Pixels from a Crime Scene: It’s not too big a problem to solve by Internet Watch Foundation
• Video: Kids Educating Kids – West Yorkshire Police
• Video: Using the Internet Safely – West Yorkshire Police
• Video: The Dark Web, Explaining some of the Mysteries – David Tidman
• Video: Responding to Online Challenges by UK Safer Internet Centre
• Online safety live events
• Interactive 4-7s Website featuring Jessie & Friends

• e-Learning; Prevent Awareness by HM Government. Home Office
• Video: Prevent Awareness in Wakefield District
• Resources: Act Early & Referral Forms

Safeguarding Training

• Video: Working Together to Safeguard Children – Basic Awareness Karron Zelei
• Face-to-Face Training: Working Together - A Shared Responsibility

Approaches and Processes to help Safeguard Children and Families in Wakefield

• Resource: Giving evidence in court
• Video: Early Help Support Planning, A case study showing how a SMART Safety Plan was developed to improve outcomes for families – Ellie Cooper
• Video: Multi-agency Safety Planning – SMART Planning – Karron Zelei
• Video: How Restorative Approaches have been used in CYPS and the Story so far… – Elloise Beever
• Video: The Wakefield Resilience Framework, produced for Wakefield Public Health and Young Lives Consortium
• Video: What is the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH)?
• Video: Working with Fathers & Male Carers – Martin Honnor
• Video: Managing Allegations Against Staff

• e-Learning: We need to talk about Suicide by Health Education England & Public Health England
• e-Learning: Talking to Your Children About Emotional Resilience and Self-Harm by Virtual College & Self-Harm UK
• Training: Suicide Awareness from Zero Suicide Alliance
• Video: Understanding Non-Suicidal Self Injury
• Video: Turning to Self-Harm
• Video: Self-Harm Animation

• Video: What are the challenges for professionals? Kate Reed and Kim Liddle
• Video: The Silent Child by Slick Films
• WESAIL Service Information

• Cannabis Edibles & Safeguarding Children and Young People by West Yorkshire Police Drugs Intelligence Team
• Who's in Charge? - Alcohol Awareness Campaign
• Smokefree Wakefield - the latest advice from Public Health
• Turning Point Inspiring Futures links
• Talk to Frank resource

• Working definition of trauma informed practice by GOV.UK
• e-Learning: ACEs – Introduction to Adverse Childhood Experiences by Public Health, Home Office, West Midlands PCC, West Midlands Violence Prevention Alliance
• TED Talk: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) Dr Nadine Burke Harris
• Video: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) by Public Health Wales
• Video: Childhood Trauma and the Brain by UK Trauma Council
• Video: Child Trauma: Repl’ACE’ing the context by Cath Knibbs
• Video: Poly Vagal motorway of wellness by Cath Knibbs
• Video: Understanding trauma: Learning Brain vs Survival Brain

• Presentation: Infant Mental Health by Jane Turner – Parent Infant Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
• Podcast: The Invisible Voice of Children NSPCC
• Video: ICON: Babies Cry, You Can Cope! Programme by Sarah Booth
• Video: Multi-Agency Pregnancy & Assessment Group (MAPLAG) – Angela South
• Video: Safer Sleep for Babies by Lullaby Trust
• Video: Safer Sleeping: reducing the risk of sudden infant death due to ‘Overlay’ – Sharon Harvey

• NEW Mental Capacity and Deprivations of Liberty for those aged 16 and above Webinar by Neil Allen 2024
• Podcast: How to build effective relationships with adolescents
• Presentation: Young Carers
• Video: Identifying Young Carers & how to access support in Wakefield
• Video: Pornography, Impact, Research & Resources – Vicki Maybin
• Video: Risk, Resilience & Relationships: Safeguarding Adolescents into Adulthood – Dez Holmes
• Brook Sexual Behaviours Traffic Light Tool
• NSPCC How to have difficult conversations with Children & Young People