CHILDREN from across west Wales have been involved in a video for National Safeguarding Week.
National Safeguarding week begins on Monday, November 14, with a focus on post-pandemic support and is to highlight the safeguarding of children and adults, particularly those who are vulnerable.
A programme of events has been co-ordinated by CWMPAS and CYSUR, the regional safeguarding boards, in response to some of the challenges children and adults face on their journey of recovery from the covid-19 pandemic.
One of those events is the launch of a safeguarding training resource which is taking place on November 18 at Parc y Scarlets, Llanelli.
The video – aimed at professionals – was created by children and young people from Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Powys.
It will be formally launched at the event by the children’s commissioner for Wales, Rocio Cifuentes.
In attendance at the event will be professionals who play a key role in safeguarding children, such as police officers, nurses, social care staff and education professionals as well as the stars of the video – the children and young people who were involved in creating it.
Jake Morgan, chairman of the Mid and West Wales Safeguarding Board, said: “The aim of Safeguarding Week is to raise awareness and highlight issues that affect children and adults at risk.
“Our regional programme will be supported by national events taking place across the whole of Wales.”
During the week, there will also be other local events including a multi-agency conference on domestic abuse hosted by Dyfed Powys Police, a webinar to revisit some of the themes associated with the Operation Jasmine review into the neglect of older people in care homes and an event aimed specifically at schools and education staff to promote the positive emotional health and wellbeing of children post-pandemic.
Nationally, the start of Safeguarding Week will see Social Care Wales lead a new multi-agency training standards and an event on shaping the future of safeguarding in Wales, hosted by the National Independent Safeguarding Board in collaboration with the Violence Prevention Unit at Public Health Wales and Liverpool’s John Moore University.
More information on the regional programme can be found at https://www.cysur.wales/national-safeguarding-week-2022/
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