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The launch of the first Digital Safeguarding SIG focus primarily on Dr Carlick’s recent research across eight Local Authorities. The research interviews covered areas about digital safeguarding policy development; understanding of safeguarding digital co-design; digital initiatives during and after the covid-19 pandemic within children’s social care settings; embedding digital pathways within safeguarding and impact evaluation; digital self-referrals and implementation of digital safeguarding initiatives. A core element of Digital Safeguarding is co-design with children and young people which will form part of the vision for this special interest group.
I think Child Abuse Review has gone from strength to strength and is of a consistently high standard. We have held numerous events that have been inspiring and enabling, such as the most recent Congresses and the Trainer's conference and award ceremony, the seminars to disseminate lessons from Serious Case Reviews. As resources get ever tighter, professionals have fewer and fewer opportunities to come together to exchange ideas and to learn together. We move more and more into silos because of work pressures. This is not the way to keep children safe. Association of Child Protection Professionals is needed to bring people concerned about child protection together to learn, to think, to shape policy and practice and to disseminate research. No-one else does this.
