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Our What's New? section will keep you up-to-date with what is happening with CSEC and its members.
What's New?
August 2010
Welcome to August's New CSEC Members
- London Borough of Tower Hamlets - Website
- Young Lives Consortium - Website
- Nottingham Nursery School
- Central Berkshire Education Business Partnership - Website
- Whitlingham Outdoor Education Centre
- Website
July 2010
Welcome to July's New CSEC Members
- City Health Care Partnership CIC - Website
- PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) - Website
- NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly - Website
- Health & Safety Unit, Malta (Associate Member)
- Website
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.
- YPAG Background Information (
PDF 169kb) - YPAG Working Agreement Form (
Word 607kb)
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.
- Risk Competence Questionnaire ( Word 1.2mb)
June 2010
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
- Barrow & District Community Action Safety Group
- British Safety Council
- London Borough of Brent
- Wiltshire Council
- C De Vision Ltd.
- Abundant Assets Alliance UK (AAA UK)
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
- Meeting agenda and workshop details ( PDF 49kb)
- Map of Bristol ( PDF 3mb)
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.
- PSHE CPD Invitation ( PDF 55kb)
- PSHE CPD Flyer ( PDF 69kb)
May 2010
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
- Park View Business & Enterprise School
- Manchester IMPS - Central Manchester University Hospitals Foundation Trust
- Oakwood High School / Youth Club
- Warwickshire County Council
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
- Dr Caroline Mulvaney, University of Nottingham - Independent evaluation of CSEC
- Paul Townsend and Jason Cole - CSEC resource profiler
- Andy Wilson, Knowsley Team Leader RSO - Child centred practical road safety training
- Brian Ogden, Council for Learning Outside the Classroom - Encouraging learning outside the classroom
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.
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
- London Borough of Waltham Forest
- Safe Start - Home Safety
- Suntrap Forest Education Centre
- Max Conflict Management
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.
Over 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 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
