Advice Drop-In: Darwen

Inspire Drug and Alcohol service will be holding drop in sessions at Darwen Children’s Centre, starting Thursday 17th March 2016, then every other Thursday 13.00-15.00. For more information, please click on the flyer below:

Family Advice Drop-In

Police encourage residents to be ‘In the Know’

POLICE are urging people to sign up to their In The Know (ITK) messaging system to help cut crime.
Lancashire Police “In The Know” Messaging system offers members of the public the means to receive information from the police and other agencies in the county about crimes or incidents in their area which suit their preferences for content, locality and means of communication.

For more information, or to sign up, please visit In The Know

Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 – A Simple Guide

Please see below a briefing which is a useful guide to the new Psychoactive Substance Act; which comes into force in early April 2016. To access this, click on the link

Guide to the Psychoactive Substance Act

Easy Read LSAB Annual Report 2014/15

To view the easy read version of the Local Safeguarding Adults Board (LSAB) Annual Report from 2015-15, please click on the link below:

Easy Read LSAB Annual Report 2014-15

Safeguarding Snapshot: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

In the UK FGM is a criminal offence under the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003. The Serious Crime Act amended this to create a new offence of failing to protect a girl from FGM, introduced FGM Protection Orders and introduced a mandatory reporting duty requiring regulated health, social care and teaching professionals to report known cases of FGM in under 18s. It is important that everyone is aware of how to recognise the signs, and what to do if you have a concern.

Please click on the link below to view the Safeguarding Snapshot on FGM:

Snapshot – FGM

The Care Act: An easy read version

To view the summary and easy read version of The Care Act please click on the link below:

Care Act-Easy Read version

SCIE – Types and Indicators of Abuse

To view the SCIE – At a glance 69: Safeguarding adults: Types and indicators of abuse, please click on the link below:

SCIE-adult-safeguarding-types-and-indicators-of-abuse

SCIE – Adult Safeguarding Sharing Information

To view the SCIE – Adult Safeguarding: Sharing Information document, please click on the link below:

SCIE Adult sharing-information

Adult Safeguarding & Domestic Abuse

To view the Adult Safeguarding & Domestic Abuse – a guide to support practitioners and managers please click on the link below:

Adult Safeguarding Domestic Abuse

Blackburn with Darwen Healthwatch Information and Signposting Calendar January 2016

Blackburn with Darwen Healthwatch are running a number of events throughout January 2016, including ‘Your View Your Voice’, which will be focussed on what you think their priorities should be for 2016/17, what BwD Healthwatch have planned and how you can get involved. To find out more about these events please click on the link below:

Information Signposting Calendar Jan 2016