Category Archives: Child Protection

E-Safety for Parents event

Child Protection, Communities, Events, Health and Wellbeing, Learning Tech, Training,

Do you…
• Worry about what your children are doing online?
• Know how to stay safe online?
• Know how to keep your children safe online?
• Have e-safety questions that you would like answering?
• Need help to make sure that you stay safe online?
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S3 Child Protection Committee – Art and Music Project

Child Protection, Events, Expressive arts, Health and Wellbeing, Interdisciplinary, Secondary schools

Tarbert Academy Pupils in S3 Art and Music spent an exciting 2 days last week producing artworks and musical backing for use by Argyll & Bute Child Protection Committee. The project was to produce artworks which the CPC can use to broadcast messages about certain areas of concern for adolescents. Current research indicates that young people are spotting signs of neglect/abuse in their peers. Continue reading S3 Child Protection Committee – Art and Music Project →

School pupils’ posters will help keep children safe across Argyll and Bute

Child Protection, CPD

Primary schools pupils in Argyll and Bute have helped the local Child Protection Committee (CPC) to keep children safe and protected by designing posters to raise awareness of the issue.

When Fiona Blakey, Argyll and Bute Council cultural co-ordinator heard that the CPC wanted to update their public information, she turned the idea into a project for primary schools.

Pupils throughout the area were asked to think about what messages they would give to people about protecting children at home, at school and in the community.

Five designs were selected, and have now been made into bright public information posters which are being displayed in public buildings and offices across Argyll and Bute.

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