by David Niven | Jul 4, 2024 | Child Abuse, Children, Children & Social Care, education, health, International, Latest Episode, law, Podcasts, safeguarding, schools, Social Work, social work education, Training
Ann Marie Christian Independent Safeguarding Consultant qualified as a social worker in 1996. She has worked for various local authoritieson on the front line, in management, Local Safeguarding Children Board Trainer, LADO, Safeguarding advisor to schools, school...
by David Niven | Feb 29, 2024 | abuse, Children, Children & Social Care, county lines, crime, human trafficking, Latest Episode, law enforcement, Podcasts, safeguarding, schools, Social Work, traffiking, victim
In this episode I speak to award-winning children’s author, Christina Gabbitas, about her book ‘Trapped in County Lines’. This is a follow up book to ‘No More Knives or County Lines’. We discuss why books like this are important in how we...
by David Niven | Jan 26, 2024 | adult safeguarding, charity, Children & Social Care, disability, education, Latest Episode, Podcasts, schools, Social Work, Training, Uncategorized
Grantown Remakery is a charity based in the Scottish Highlands, in the heart of the Cairngorms National Park near Aviemore. I talked about this, a year or so ago, with George Livingstone as the guest. It seemed a good idea to see how they weathered the pandemic and...
by David Niven | Sep 1, 2023 | Child Abuse, Children, Children & Social Care, Latest Episode, law, Mental Health, Podcasts, policy, safeguarding, schools, suicide, Training Courses
As it’s the start of Suicide Prevention Month there could be no better guest than Professor Jonathan Singer who until recently held a National position in the United States but also has written extensively on the subject of suicide prevention. All this on...
by David Niven | Aug 5, 2022 | charity, Children, Children & Social Care, disability, education, Latest Episode, Mental Health, Podcasts, safeguarding, schools, Uncategorized
Grantown Remakery is a small but important charity which I talked about, a year or so ago, with George Livingstone as the guest.It seemed a good idea to see how they weathered the pandemic and did George have views on how the wider community could support the causes...
by David Niven | Mar 22, 2022 | charity, Children, Children & Social Care, crime, education, Latest Episode, Podcasts, safeguarding, schools, Uncategorized, victim
‘No more knives’ by Christina Gabbitas is a book and animation for 10 yr old + primary children educating them about how to avoid grooming,county lines and knife crime. A valuable addition to safeguarding resources. Today I am happy to be back after the...
