Welcome to the October issue of the Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Safeguarding Children Board newsletter. This months edition contains a joint communication from the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel, the Department for Education (DfE), the Home Office (HO) and the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) along with news from our partners Staffordshire County Council, University Hospital of Derby and Burton and the Clinical Commissioning Group.  We also share great news stories about a our competition winner this month and an act of extreme kindness from one of our residents to children suffering from the effects of trauma as well as a new training course to update your Level 2.

With Autumn now in full swing and evenings drawing closer we hope you are looking forward to a safe social distancing Halloween.