Welcome to the NSPCC Learning Podcast - a series of episodes that cover a range of child protection issues to inform, create debate and tell you about the work we do to keep children safe. At the heart of every episode is the child’s voice and how what they tell us informs the work we do. If you are looking for more safeguarding and child protection training, information and resources, please visit our NSPCC Learning website. Intro/outro music is Lights by Sappheiros [http://goo.gl/YmnOAx]
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63: Supporting d/Deaf children: putting the child at the centre of decision making
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Language and communication barriers faced by d/Deaf children and young people can manifest in a way that increases safeguarding risk. It's important that there are professionals who can understand and communicate with a child or young person if they need to report or disclose any issues they are experiencing. In this podcast episode, a panel of exp…
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62: Absenteeism in schools
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Education is a vital part of ensuring children get the best possible start in life, and there can be safeguarding implications for children who are absent from school. If children miss school, the ability that schools have to offer them the support they need is compromised. And missing school may be an indicator of broader child protection concerns…
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61: Understanding pre-birth assessments
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Pre-birth assessments help social work professionals to identify strengths, needs, risks and protective factors in the lives of expectant families. They play an important role in safeguarding babies; effective pre-birth assessments can ensure that families get the support they need before issues escalate. In this podcast episode, In this podcast ep…
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Justice and redress | Recommendations for Change: a series about the IICSA final report - episode 5
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The criminal and civil justice systems play an important role in the way the State responds to child sexual abuse. However, many of IICSA’s investigations featured details of inadequate responses from the police, Crown Prosecution Service and courts. The final episode of the series looks at how the IICSA recommendations might improve victims and su…
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Online safety | Recommendations for Change: a series about the IICSA final report - episode 4
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Being online is an integral part of children’s lives, but it can expose them to risks, including sexual abuse. The past five years has seen a proliferation in child sexual abuse material online, and IICSA’s investigations into the problem found that law enforcement is struggling to keep pace. In this episode of Recommendations for Change, we explor…
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Children in care | Recommendations for Change: a series about the IICSA final report - episode 3
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Many children enter care because they have been abused or neglected. IICSA found that, rather than being protected, many vulnerable children who entered care were subject to further abuse. This episode of Recommendations for Change looks at the IICSA findings relating to children in care. How did institutions fail to protect looked after children, …
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The importance of data | Recommendations for Change: a series about the IICSA final report - episode 2
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Gathering and analysing data plays a key role in understanding the extent of child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSA and CSE). The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) final report suggests one of the reasons that the true scale of CSA in the UK is not fully understood is poor data collection. In the second episode of our series loo…
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An introduction to IICSA | Recommendations for Change: a series about the IICSA final report - episode 1
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Recommendations for Change is a new five-part podcast series from NSPCC Learning, exploring the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) final recommendations. The series breaks down why the recommendations are needed, how they’ll work if implemented, and what impact they might have on the prevention of child sexual abuse. This first epi…
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60: Supporting new parents through adversity – part two
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The first 1001 days of a child’s life are crucial for their development and wellbeing. Having access to caring relationships and support networks can help a child’s brain develop in a healthy way. New parents who experience adversity, such as domestic abuse, may need additional help to build these support networks for their child. This is the secon…
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59: Supporting new parents through adversity – part one
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The first 1001 days of a child’s life are crucial for their development and wellbeing. Having access to caring relationships and support networks can help a child’s brain develop in a healthy way. New parents who experience adversity, such as domestic abuse, may need additional help to build these support networks for their child. This is the first…
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58: Building an evidence base for social work
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Evidence plays an important role in social work practice. Knowledge gained from research and practical experience should be used to ensure decisions about safety and risk are well-informed and ethical. In this podcast episode, a panel of experts from the NSPCC discuss how social workers can build and maintain an evidence base to support their work.…
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57: What's next for children's social care in England? A practical perspective
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This is the second in a two-part series looking at the future of children’s social care in England. Listen to the first episode, an interview with Josh MacAlister, here. Earlier this year, the UK government published its vision for the reform of children's social care in England: Stable homes built on love. The strategy sets out a number of proposa…
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56: What’s next for children’s social care in England? An interview with Josh MacAlister
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This is the first in a two-part series looking at the future of children’s social care in England. Earlier this year, the UK government published its vision for the reform of children's social care in England: 'Stable homes, built on love'. The Independent Review of Children's Social Care in England, which published its final report in May 2022, pr…
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55: Domestic abuse support in the workplace
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The discussion covers topics including how to create a workplace domestic abuse policy, the indicators of domestic abuse and what managers can do to support colleagues experiencing domestic abuse or other safeguarding concerns. Useful resources > Learn more about domestic abuse > Read our learning from case reviews briefing on domestic abuse > List…
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54: An introduction to Report Remove, an online self-reporting tool for young people
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Report Remove is an online tool that under-18s can use to report nude images or videos of themselves that have been shared online, to see if they can be removed from the internet. Developed by experts from Childline and the Internet Watch Foundation, the tool provides a child-centred and non-judgemental approach to image removal. Listen to this pod…
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53: Supporting children’s mental health and wellbeing in schools
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Mental health problems can impact on all aspects of a child’s life, and in some cases can lead to safeguarding and child protection concerns. Education professionals are in a good position to look out for children’s mental health, promote their wellbeing and help prevent any mental health problems from escalating into more serious concerns. This ep…
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52: Together for Childhood — what we've learnt to help prevent abuse and neglect
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Together for Childhood (TfC), the NSPCC's place-based approach to prevent child abuse and neglect, was launched almost five years ago. Listen to Pat Branigan, Assistant Director for Together for Childhood, talk to the panel of development managers from all four TfC sites about the benefits of a place-based and community-focused approach to preventi…
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51: Researching mental health support for adolescents who have experienced sexual abuse
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In this episode, we hear from Dr Helen Beckett and Dr Debbie Allnock, two researchers from the Safer Young Lives Research Centre (SYLRC), who worked on a study looking at adolescents’ experiences of sexual abuse and how this has affected their mental health and wellbeing. The discussion covers the purpose of the study, the importance of listening t…
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50: Sibling sexual abuse
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Listen to Katy Tomkinson and Rowan Wolfe who work on our harmful sexual behaviour service talk about the effects of sibling sexual abuse on children and families; how to provide whole-family support; the impact of family dynamics and contributing factors to harmful sexual behaviour being displayed. This episode touches on our practitioners’ experie…
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49: Understanding denial in children displaying harmful sexual behaviour
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Katy Tomkinson and Rowan Wolfe, who work on our HSB service, talk about: what denial might look like; using therapeutic and trauma-informed approaches in your practice; exploring children’s lived experiences and feelings; how to get children and young people to open up and build trust. View the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website.…
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48: An interview with the NSPCC Helpline’s Domestic Abuse Practice Advisors
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The NSPCC recently secured funding from the COVID-19 Support Fund to launch a three-year domestic abuse project and extend the capacity of the NSPCC Helpline to support contacts who have experienced domestic abuse. In this episode, the NSPCC’s two new Domestic Abuse Practice Advisors, Lisa Begley and Naomi Hawthorne, speak about the risk factors an…
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47: Why child neglect can happen and how to respond to it
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This episode focuses on why child neglect happens, what can be done to support families when there is neglect, and how it’s vital to keep children at the forefront of any responses to neglect. View the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website.Door NSPCC Learning
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46: What is child neglect and how to spot the signs
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Listen to the episode to learn about what neglect is, why it can be challenging to conduct assessments around neglect, why neglect happens and what can be done to help families when neglect takes place. View the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website.Door NSPCC Learning
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45: Understanding technology-assisted harmful sexual behaviour (TA-HSB)
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You’ll learn about the prevalence and different forms of TA-HSB, the NSPCC’s research into this area and what help is available for professionals working with children and young people. View the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website.Door NSPCC Learning
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44: Planning therapeutic sessions for children displaying harmful sexual behaviour
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Continuing on from episode 43, Katy and Rowan discuss helpful ideas you can use in your work to talk about difficult topics and explore harmful sexual behaviour. View the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website.Door NSPCC Learning
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43: Direct work with children displaying harmful sexual behaviour
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Hear NSPCC practitioners talk about conducting therapeutic sessions with children and young people and understanding how to manage incidents of harmful sexual behaviour. This episode touches on our practitioners’ experiences of working directly with children and families. Although all experiences are generalised, they could be upsetting for some, a…
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42: Black girls’ experiences of sexual abuse
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View the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website.Door NSPCC Learning
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41: Understanding intersectionality in social work practice
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Listen to the episode to find out about why intersectional thinking is important in safeguarding, the impact of not taking an intersectional approach and why applying this approach to your practice can be helpful when working with children and young people. View the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website.…
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40: Recognising domestic abuse as a child protection issue
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Gain an insight into the dynamics of domestic abuse, the effects it can have on children and young people and learn about how you can improve your practice to reduce risks to children. View the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website. Supported by the COVID-19 Support FundDoor NSPCC Learning
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39: Building children and young people’s digital resilience
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We invited practitioners from our InCtrl service, a preventative group-work programme, to talk about creating safer online experiences, building digital resilience and encouraging positive behaviour online. View the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website.Door NSPCC Learning
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38: Involving volunteers in delivering services for vulnerable families
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In this episode, we’re joined by the authors of our commissioned review, Dr. Louca-Mai Brady and Berni Graham, as well as Georgia Hyde-Dryden from the NSPCC. You’ll hear them discuss the key findings and best practices identified from the literature review, including what services volunteers provided to families, challenges and issues that need to …
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37: What have we learnt during COVID-19?
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In this episode, we reflect on the past nine months with our CEO, Peter Wanless, discussing the issues and challenges children and young people are facing; what child protection and safeguarding themes have emerged; delivering services for children and families remotely. View the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website.…
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35: Giving birth during a pandemic: what parents experienced and how we’re helping
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Find out about how we engaged with families during the COVID-19 pandemic, what we learnt during this period, the challenges and benefits of delivering a virtual service to pregnant women and how we created a strong community ethos across all our Baby Steps sites. View the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website.…
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36: Bonus episode: what research tells us about our Baby Steps service
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Listen to the episode to hear key learning from the research and how it’ll help develop practice; why we’ve adapted our service delivery models; what families, practitioners, facilitators and external partners think about the changes; and how the voice of the child was captured. View the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website.…
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34: How we’re delivering our Schools Service during the pandemic
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In order to continue to reach every child during the pandemic, we’ve worked hard to launch an online version of the programme that can be used in the classroom. What does this change mean for schools? This episode features Karen Squillino, the head of the NSPCC’s Schools Service and Sally McDawn, an area coordinator at the NSPCC. View the podcast t…
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33: Children never just witness domestic abuse
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To mark DART’s ten-year anniversary, we invited some of the team involved in delivering the service, including one of our scale-up partners, My Sister’s House Women’s Centre, to talk about the impact it’s had on children and families they’ve worked with. This episode features Claire Burns, an Implementation Manager at the NSPCC, Mel Hughson, a Chil…
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32: Safeguarding advice for tutors
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Listen to our episode to find out about the biggest safeguarding challenges tutors face, the impact of the pandemic, lockdown and social distancing on tutoring and more. This episode features John Nichols and Sarah Gordon who are members of The Tutors’ Association (TTA). View the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website.…
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31: Living through a pandemic: what children told us
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If you’re someone who works or volunteers with children and young people, this episode will provide you with an insight into some of the struggles and problems young people have expressed during and after lockdown. View the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website.Door NSPCC Learning
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30: Children’s services, social distancing and COVID-19
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We talk to Dannie Adcock-Habib, a Children’s Services Practitioner at the NSPCC’s Grimsby Service Centre about the pressures of the lockdown, the long-term impact of the pandemic and more. Tune in to listen to the full discussion. View the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website.Door NSPCC Learning
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29: Uncovering the reality of the pandemic on schools
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In the penultimate episode of our coronavirus series, we speak to Shirley Dunn, a form tutor and head of department at a secondary school about measures her school has taken to safeguard children and young people as lockdown progressed. View the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website.Door NSPCC Learning
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28: Coronavirus special: a new ‘normal’ for schools
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This episode features Kay Joel, a Senior Education Consultant at the NSPCC who talks about the current situation and provides an insight into the enquiries we have received in recent weeks. View the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website.Door NSPCC Learning
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27: Antenatal and postnatal care during coronavirus (COVID-19)
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This episode features: Dr. Jo Black - consultant perinatal psychiatrist Penny Dougan - health visitor Dr. Alain Gregoire - chair of Maternal Mental Health Alliance UK Eileen O’Sullivan - a specialist health visitor in parent and infant mental health Claire Spencer - midwife in London Katie Worley - a health visiting and school nursing service manag…
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26: The invisible voice of children under two
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Hear how social workers and practitioners can monitor risks and ensure the safety of infants under two to prevent these from becoming child safeguarding practice reviews. This episode features: Rachel Anslow, social worker at the NSPCC Wendy Noctor, Safeguarding Manager for the NSPCC’s Safeguarding Unit Liana Sanzone, social worker for the NSPCC’s …
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25: Preventing harmful sexual behaviour in education
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In this episode, you’ll learn about: delivering PSHE education programmes and relationships and sex education (RSE) providing the right support for young people in educational settings, the wider community or online what you can do to help staff in dealing with peer-on-peer sexualised behaviour and peer-on-peer abuse how you can support parents and…
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24: Assessing sexualised behaviour
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In this episode, our guest speakers discuss: how assessments such as the AIM assessment are used to determine levels of risk and where they should be applied why it’s important to integrate responses to sexualised behaviour into your wider policies and overarching strategy how to address serious harmful behaviours and when a referral should be made…
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23: Harmful sexual behaviour in schools
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Our episode will help you to understand: the issues schools, colleges and academies are currently seeing and why there’s an increase in sexualised behaviour in young people what healthy, problematic and harmful behaviours are and how you can respond appropriately how children and young people are affected, including those who display sexualised beh…
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22: Supporting young people with learning disabilities
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Listen to our episode to find out: why and how the films and resources were developed how the resources can be delivered the benefits these resources provide for young people with learning disabilities This episode features: Helen Westerman - joint acting Head of Safeguarding in Communities at the NSPCC Elanor Stannage - theatre practitioner, direc…
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21: Steps to Safety programme
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Listen to this week’s episode to learn about: the Steps to Safety programme, including the research behind the service and its development process what the outcomes were from the feasibility study and what we learnt from the service how practitioners assessed parents, delivered sessions and modules and used Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) the chal…
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20: Protecting disabled children from sexual abuse
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Joining us for this episode, Sarah discusses: our report findings including the key issues for parents and carers the need for accessible relationships and sex education for children and young people with disabilities how parents and carers can work with schools to provide children with consistent messages around relationships and sex education inv…
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19: What is the Underwear Rule?
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Tune into our episode for more about: the impact PANTS has had since it launched in 2012 having conversations around PANTS and embedding the messages into daily life how local safeguarding boards, parents, schools and local communities are helping to raise awareness of the campaign what children have said about the PANTS campaign and future develop…
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