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December 2010

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November 2010

CSEC to attend Safer Communities: Safer Children event

CSEC will be attending the Safer Communities: Safer Children event on Thursday 25th November 2010. This event aims to explore how improved safeguarding practises can be put in place and introduce Safe Network’s national core children’s safeguarding standards. The event is hosted by Safe Network and East Sussex Local Safeguarding Children Board and will take place at Wellshurst Golf & Country Club: North Street, Hellingly, East Sussex, BN27 4EE. The day which is free, is in two parts; morning and afternoon sessions. Delegates can attend for the whole day or the relevant half day. Times are 9am-12.45pm and 1.30pm-4.30pm and lunch will be provided. CSEC will be giving an introductory presentation on the services it delivers and provide further information about the coalition.

For more information about this seminar please email Irene Aserie

 

CSEC heads South!

As part of CSEC’s aims to increase its footprint in the South West and South East, a membership seminar was held in Poole. It was organised by CSEC and hosted by the RNLI (CSEC021). A seminar also took place in Bodmin and was hosted by NHS Cornwall Isles of Scilly (CSEC105) and Flashpoint (CSEC023). The aim of these membership seminars is to show how organisations can get involved with the work of CSEC. There are areas of the UK with a low CSEC presence and these seminars are designed to target those areas. Those who attended the meetings found them to be useful, informative and engaging. The agenda included an introduction to CSEC by project manager John Vallender, and CSEC co-ordinators Jason Cole, Craig Keegan and Nicola Smith all gave presentations on CSEC projects and resources. Steve Wills from the RNLI (CSEC021) and Ellen McConell from Flashpoint (CSEC023) also delivered presentations at their respective seminars which focused on their work and motivations for joining CSEC.

More membership seminars are scheduled for this month. The next is due to take place on November 29th and is being hosted by Whitlingham Outdoor Education Centre (CSEC110) in Norfolk. If you know of any organisations in and around Norfolk for whom it may be relevant to attend or if any CSEC members would like to host a future CSEC membership seminar, please email Irene Aserie

 

October 2010

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Carbon Monoxide Hotspot Report 2010

The Gas Safety Trust is proud to launch the Carbon Monoxide Hotspot Report 2010. This unique piece of research indicates that whilst we are monitoring a reduction in ‘actual’ carbon monoxide deaths from natural gas and liquid petroleum gas (LPG) throughout the United Kingdom, we are still recording considerably high numbers of serious exposure incidents. For more information click here.

Countdown to Road Safety Week 2010 (22-28 November)

It’s just four weeks until Road Safety Week but there’s still time to organise activities and get your resources for the campaign! For more information visit www.roadsafetyweek.org

Letter to Mr Gove - Secretary of State for Education

Tom Mullarkey, the Chief Executive of RoSPA has sent a letter to Micheal Gove, the Secretary of State for Education, to discuss how the work of CSEC fits very well with his desire to bring back a 'Dangerous Book for Boys' culture, and the Government's 'Big Society' plans. He also describes the CSEC approach of encouraging learning about risk management in order to enable young people to develop maturity, self sufficiency and resilience. A copy of this letter can be found here.

Emergency SMS

phoneDid you know that if you cannot make voice calls, you can now contact the 999 emergency services by SMS text from your mobile phone? EmergencySMS is part of the standard 999 service which has been designed specifically for people with hearing loss or difficulty with speech.

Since September 2009, the emergencySMS service has successfully handled hundreds of real emergency calls. Thanks to this service criminals have been arrested, lives have been saved and babies have been born safely.

 

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Young People's Advisory Group (YPAG)

CSEC want to work with 4 groups of five young people aged 12-15 years to participate in our Young People's Advisory Group. We would like a range of groups and individuals to participate from a range of geographical locations (to represent the CSEC footprint). If you know of or are working with a group please have a look at the information below and let us know.

If you would like to discuss the possibilities please contact Cassius Francis on 0121 248 2025/07813 914 424 or cfrancis@csec.org.uk.

The deadline for applications is Friday the 23rd of July.

Risk Competence Questionnaire

In order to fully define the parameters and aims of high quality practical safety education, the CSEC team are asking all members if they could fill in a questionnaire. This is intended to help us identify competences - what children and young people could reasonably be expected to know and be able to - do to reduce unintended injuries to themselves and to others.

CSEC will use the results from this questionnaire to construct and publish an unintended injury competence framework. You will already have been sent a form, but it is also available below. Your help will be very much appreciated.

June 2010

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Welcome to June's New CSEC Members

CSEC now has over 100 members. Here is a list of those who joined us in June 2010

Thursday 8th July - CSEC Members Meeting - Bristol

CSEC's continued commitment to work with its members takes us away from our Midlands base to the South West of the country. The next General Coalition Meeting will be on Thursday 8th July 2010, at:

Engineers' House, EEF Venues, The Promenade, Clifton Down, Bristol, BS8 3NB. Tel: 0117 906 4824

CSEC Personal Social and Health Education (PSHE) Continuing Professional Development (CPD) opportunity

For the attention all CSEC member organisations!

For the second year CSEC member organisations will have a unique opportunity to help their staff achieve a nationally accredited qualification in Personal Social and Health Education. Course fees are paid by CSEC and employers are asked to release participants to attend 5 days of intense training and pay the cost of travel and accommodation (where necessary). To find out more see below.

May 2010

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Welcome to May's New CSEC Members

CSEC's membership is growing fast. Here is a list of members who have joined us in May 2010

CSEC Teachers TV player

Two new programmes have been added to the CSEC teachers TV player. These are 'Can Do Kids' which looks at how a group of Year 6 pupils have tackled the issue of road safety at their school, and 'Safe School Trips' which discusses the issues and benefits surrounding taking young people out of school, and gives advice and reassurance for teachers.

The new Teachers TV Outdoor Learning page also contains a range of inspiring ideas for outdoor lessons and school trips to boost learning for both primary and secondary levels.

Resource Profiler now on-line

CSEC member Lucid have been working with CSEC to design a resource profiler which will help identify high quality practical safety education resources and services. This powerful tool can be used to review and develop your own resources, or help when sourcing resources to buy.

For more information see the Resource Profiler page.

Wakefield Members' meeting reports now available

Written reports from the Wakefield members' meeting are now available in the Minutes and Reports section. Videos of the presentations are also available on the CSEC YouTube page, including

New publication from the English Outdoor Council

The English Outdoor Council have produced a new publication called Nothing Ventured: balancing risks and benefits in the outdoors.

It has been written by Tim Gill to explode the myths about safety on school visits and give real reassurance to teachers.

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Welcome to April's New CSEC Members

CSEC's membership is growing fast. Here is a list of members who have joined us in April 2010

Sustrans competition winners announced

CSEC member Sustrans wanted to hear what Key Stage 2 and 3 pupils would tell the government to do to make it easier to walk and cycle to school.

Sustrans websiteOver 2,500 young people entered their competition with a host of great ideas and very strong opinions!

The Winner - Joshua Newby from Orchard Primary School in Nottinghamshire particularly impressed the judges with his suggestions, awareness of the different benefits of walking and cycling to school, and practical solution to the problem of carrying books to school. Joshua has won an exciting assortment of walking and cycling equipment for his school. You can download and read his letter here (pdf PDF 30kb)

For more information about the competition and the other winners, go to www.sustrans.org.uk/what-we-do/safe-routes-to-schools/news

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