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Deanna Neilson is a guest speaker and external expert to our National Safeguarding Board and works with the London Borough of Hillingdon as Head of Regulated Services. She was previously the Head of Safeguarding at Action for Children for 4+ years. Deanne has provided a blog for Nacro’s Safeguarding Week, focussing on the mental health of young people.   It is Nacro’s Safeguarding Week and I want to…

The critical spotlight of safeguarding is again illuminating the stirring issue of how we can protect children in sport more effectively. Following several scandals, Andrea Coates, the head of UK Athletics, signed a petition with 200 athletes last month requesting a ‘zero-policy’ for coaches found guilty of sexual misconduct and demanded nothing short of a…

Service Manager Andrea Norton describes the challenges and obstacles of safeguarding during COVID-19. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we have continued to work hard to maintain business continuity and have remained committed to the safeguarding of all our service users across the region. Coronavirus restrictions have made us adapt our day-to-day work – virtual meetings, doorstep…

Nacro is delighted to have been selected to lead the delivery of the education and skills provision for children and young people at Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre (STC), a 76-bed STC in Northamptonshire. Rated Good by Ofsted, Nacro will build on many years’ experience in the further education and skills sector across the country, working…

“Nacro puts its safeguarding at the forefront of everything it does.” A look into delivering safeguarding from DSO Zoe Whitmore The role of the Designated Safeguarding Officer is vital in ensuring we are continuing to create a safe and empowering culture for our staff and service users within Nacro, and the wider communities. It is…

Introduction We support a number of the measures in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, including: The commitment to criminal record disclosure reform The piloting of problem-solving courts Increasing the threshold for custodial remand of children However, we are very concerned that a number of the measures in the Bill represent an inflation of…

Campbell Robb’s thoughts following International Women’s Day I got very very angry this morning listening to the radio. I admit that happens quite a lot, but this was unusual and noticeable. The reporting of the coverage of the investigation into the disappearance of Sarah Everard was what did it. How can it be 2021 and…

We are pleased to announce we are a funded partner in A-dapt, a new project led by Innovate UK. A-dapt is a start up with an intelligent new video content format called Adaptive-media® that utilises the latest Edge AI and provides a proven technology basis for the project. Disadvantaged young adults often have low esteem…

Nacro will be working in partnership with Resonance Ltd – a social impact investment company working with social enterprises and charities – to house people in London who are currently sleeping rough or residing in hostels. The Everyone In Partnership will provide 50 homes for those sleeping rough on London’s streets, with an estimate of…