Welcome to DCD hub, for professionals working with children and young people from Devon and Cornwall Police.
News
01/06/2025: ‘Every child will have contact with a stranger online’
Sophie was just 17 when she was contacted online by someone she believed to be a boy of her own age.
01/06/2025: Black and mixed heritage young offenders ‘given harsher penalties’
Black and mixed heritage children are being handed tougher penalties than their white peers, even when they have committed the same offences, researchers are warning.
31/05/2025: Action urged to tackle ten-fold increase in complex care placements
Extra government funding for early help services is needed to help tackle a more than tenfold increase in high-cost placements for children with complex needs over the last five years, say council leaders.
29/05/2025: Government extends neurodiverse pupil support programme
The government is extending a programme to train teachers and help schools meet the needs of neurodiverse pupils.
27/05/2025: What is an apprenticeship and how much are apprentices paid?
The government is scrapping funding for postgraduate apprenticeships for people aged 22 or over in England from next year.
27/05/2025: Higher-level apprenticeship funding to be scrapped as focus shifts to under-22s
The government is promising more training for people aged 21 and under in England, as it presses ahead with controversial plans to scrap funding for postgraduate apprenticeships.
23/05/2025: ‘I’ve applied for hundreds of jobs’: One in eight youths not in work or education
“I’ve applied for factories, care work, hospital work – anything to just get a job to support me and my son,” says 20-year-old mum Libby.
23/05/2025: Calls to strengthen family justice system after damning report
Campaigners have backed calls for government to strengthen the family justice system, after a damning National Audit Office (NAO) report revealed a backlog of nearly 50,000 cases.
22/05/2025: Research finds ‘long-lasting financial benefits’ of Sure Start
Sure Start children’s centres generated “widespread and long-lasting benefits” for children that have created financial savings to the UK economy that “could be twice as high as its costs”, a report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) has found.
Newsletter
Events
12/06/2025: Preventing and Countering Extremism in the UK 2025: Understanding the Evolving Threat Landscape and Building Effective Prevention Strategies
The Preventing and Countering Extremism in the UK Conference 2025 brings together academics, experts, and practitioners to explore the evolving landscape of extremism, focusing on how global and domestic factors contribute to . . .
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18/06/2025: The Student Mental Health and Wellbeing Conference 2025: Supporting a Diverse Range of Student Needs
Attend the The Student Mental Health Conference 2025 to hear the latest updates and guidance from leading experts on student mental health services. Engage with high-level keynotes that will update you on the latest government policies for . . .
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24/06/2025: The Preventing Child Abuse Conference 2025: A Proactive Approach to Safeguarding and Prevention
Attend the 2025 Preventing Child Abuse Conference: A Proactive Approach to Prevention and Safeguarding to hear the latest updates and guidance on preventing child abuse. Engage with a broad collection of prevention and safeguarding . . .
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School incidents:
When to report to the police
When incidents happen in schools, it can sometimes be difficult to know whether to involve the police or deal with it using the school behaviour management system.The information on these pages provide a guide for school staff to determine the best course of action.
ELearning
Training for Educational Settings: Schools, Colleges and Universities
Young people are living in a world that is increasingly diverse, recognises various identities and can sometimes be challenging towards differences that can lead to hateful and harmful behaviour and affect their lives deeply.
Our training addresses topics such as prejudice, discrimination, hate crime, online hate, fake news, exploring inclusion and diversity framed around critical thinking skills.
We work with young people in all settings and deliver content to meet their needs
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Documents and Publications
“It’s Silent”: Race, racism and safeguarding children
Race, racism, and racial bias have, in recent years, had increased prominence in serious case reviews and their ‘successor’ reviews, rapid reviews and local child safeguarding practice reviews (LCSPRs).
The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel (15/04/2025)
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67cb0a9d5993d41513a45c5b/Race_Racism_Safeguarding_March_2025.pdf
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Change 4U (Cornwall)
Change 4U provides three tiers of support available to men and women to change behaviour and develop healthier relationship skills, knowledge and understanding.