The Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children’s Partnership (LSCP) is a statutory multi-agency partnership board.
Their vision is that children and young people are safeguarded, supported and their lives are improved.
They offer training, resources and safeguarding information to support practitioners who work with children, young people, adults and their families.
From the 1st December 2025, there will be two additional categories of harm within the Child Protection (CP) processes in our local safeguarding partnership:
These additions build on the existing categories of harm which have been in place for many years. Currently, when a child is made subject to Child Protection plan, Working Together 2023 has four categories against which a plan is recorded. These are:
These changes have been made for better understanding locally, to try and be clearer around the risks posed to children, and to manage CP Conferences in a non-blaming way around Domestic Abuse and Harm Outside The Home.
From the 22nd April 2025 there will be a new link to the LSCP online Policy and Procedures manual. The new link can be found by following this link to the Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children Partnership website.
From that date, any links to the ‘old’ online manual will be broken.
Therefore it is advised that if you have any links to their manual or policies in any of your internal training, policies, web browser bookmarks, newsletters or briefings, these are updated to the new link.
As part of the LSCP current multi-agency Domestic Abuse audit, they have created a survey to collect data from professionals to inform their report and recommendations.
Can you spare a moment to complete the survey and also share with your colleagues? The survey is short and will take less than 5 minutes to complete.
Please follow this link to online survey.
Suicide in young people often follows the accumulation of different vulnerabilities and adversities over time.
The NSPCC have a briefing available which highlights learning from a sample of case reviews published by local safeguarding partnerships between 2021 and 2023 where suicide was a key factor.
You can read this briefing by following this link to the NSPCC website.
The most recent briefing published by the Child Safeguarding Practice review Panel suggests that there is a need for a sea change in how we address issues about race, culture and ethnicity in safeguarding practice.
This is a vital pre-requisite of better protecting and helping Black, Asian and Mixed Heritage children from harm both within their families and in the extrafamilial environment.
The full report draws together findings from reviews and research in this area. The report acknowledges that discussions about race and racism can, and will be, confronting and difficult.
They are, however, very necessary. Racism is insidious, pervasive and deeply embedded in society. There cognition of racism and racial bias as a societal issue is a crucial step in reflecting on, and learning more about how Black, Asian and Mixed Heritage children are safeguarded, helped and protected.
The full report can be read by following this link to the GOV.UK website.
A two-part podcast is available to listen to focusing on Anti-Racist Practice. In the first episode, Ed (Practice Advisor, Children’s Services) and Ela (Improvement Practice Lead and Expert by Experience) from Lincolnshire County Council to learn about anti-racist practice.
The episodes cover some difficult local realities and focuses on the work that is going onto make things better for people living and working in Lincolnshire.
It’s All About People Pod can be found by following this link to the PodBean website.
Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust have developed 7 new mental health e-learning courses to support practitioners in Lincolnshire who work with children, young people and their families.
These free e-learning courses are available through the Safeguarding Lincolnshire Enable website.
A new e-learning course has been developed by the Lincolnshire Domestic Abuse Partnership and is available for free to practitioners who work with children, families and vulnerable adults.
By the end of this training you will have gained a greater understanding of perpetrators of domestic abuse by covering the following aims:
Follow this link to the Safeguarding Lincolnshire Enable website for more details.
The Virtual School offer a range of training, workshops and briefings aimed at Designated Teachers for looked after children and other relevant staff in education settings to develop their skills, confidence and understanding in supporting the education of children in care, those previously in care and children with a social worker.
All workshops are offered free of charge to schools, education and early years settings in Lincolnshire and education settings who have children in the care of Lincolnshire on roll.
Training is available on a range of themes, such as:
You can access the most up to date training offer and book onto training courses provided by virtual schools by following this link to the Ticket Tailor website.
The Lincolnshire Domestic Abuse Partnership currently offer free training for all practitioners who work with children, young people, families and vulnerable adults in Lincolnshire.
This training consists of:
Domestic Abuse Awareness – a 1 hour workshop delivered in your organisation, staff meetings or training days,
Domestic Abuse in Practice – a 3 hour face to face training session delivered in a multi agency setting
There are also 10 free e-learning courses available.
To secure your place, please follow this link to the Safeguarding Lincolnshire Enable website.
The following courses are delivered by the Lincolnshire Recovery Partnership and the LSCP:
Impact of Drugs and Alcohol on Families (face to face):
The aim of this course is to give participants an overview of drugs and alcohol. It will explore the related concerns and where to get further information and support.
and
Parental Domestic Abuse, Substance Misuse and Parental Mental Illness (e-learning)
The Trio of Vulnerabilities – domestic abuse, parental mental ill-health and parental substance abuse – can have a severe impact on vulnerable children and young people, and the parents themselves. This course covers how to define and identify such abuse and work to counter it.
For further information on course details and where to book please follow this link to the Microsoft Sway online flyer.
The Trio of Vulnerabilities – domestic abuse, parental mental ill-health and parental substance abuse – can have a severe impact on vulnerable children and young people, and the parents themselves.
This e-learning course course covers how to define and identify such abuse and work to counter it.
Cost: £25.00 plus VAT for organisations who pay for training. Follow this link to the LSCP website Training Policy for details.
Secure your place now by following this link to the Safeguarding Lincolnshire Enable website.
Analysts at the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) have identified AI-generated child sexual abuse images connected to AI chatbots. Since June 2025, 17 incidents of AI-generated child sexual abuse material have been found on an AI chatbot website.
The site, which is found on the clear web (the internet that we use for everyday activities), first appears to offer standard AI chat services with which users can engage and interact. But by following a particular digital pathway, the website can be used to access multiple chatbots that will simulate sexual scenarios with children.
These scenarios include ‘child prostitute in a hotel’; ‘sex with your child while your wife is on holiday’; and ‘child and teacher alone after class’.
For more information, please follow this link to the Internet Watch Foundation website.
Ygam’s recent report, in collaboration with Mumsnet, offers an analysis around parental concerns with their children’s relationship with gaming. Please see the Independent article below. The full report can be found by following this link to the YGAM website.
A study suggests that teenage boys are now spending more time playing video games than they are at school. The average 15 to 17 year-old boy spends approximately 34 hours a week playing video games.
“Mumsnet users are increasingly worried about the amount of time their children spend on screens, and with limited first-hand experience of gaming, many parents find it challenging to understand the trade-offs between risk and reward.” Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts
A reminder that Ygam are still offering FREE awareness sessions for parents and training sessions for all professionals that work with young people. There are many links between the world of gaming and gambling which can cause many harms to young people.
Ygam’s Interim chief executive Helen Martin said: “Education has an essential role to play – not just for young gamers, but also for the adults who care for them – to help safeguard children and keep pace with our rapidly evolving digital world.
You could attend and signpost parents to pop onto one of the upcoming awareness sessions by following this link to the YGAM website.
If you are a professional that works with young people and families, you can look at upcoming training sessions by following this link to the YGAM website. That includes those in social care, education, community groups, youth groups and more.
LSCP have created a new document which can support the use of the Child Neglect Resource in training and directed learning.
The new document is titled ‘Child Neglect Resource – Directed Task and Learning Overview’.
This document outlines all of the directed tasks available in the resource and quickly identifies where to find it in the resource.
The document is available by following this link to the LSCP Child Neglect Resource directed task and learning overview.
For more information on the services provided by Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children Partnership, please follow this link to the Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children Partnership website.
Alternatively you can send them an email to lscp@lincolnshire.gov.uk.
