We are almost reaching the end of our series on safeguarding children and young people within local communities. Tune into this week’s episode to find out more about:

the role faith-based communities and groups have in children and young people’s lives
why it’s essential groups and communities understand their safeguarding responsibilities
how to address safeguarding challenges and develop a safeguarding culture that works alongside cultural beliefs, values and customs
the importance in listening to children and young people and ensuring children always feel listened to.

These episodes were produced as part of a partnership led by NCVO, funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the National Lottery Fund within the Safeguarding Training Fund programme.

Read the podcast transcript on the NSPCC Learning website.

💬 About the speakers

Cate Meredith has been working for the NSPCC for 10 years as a Senior Consultant in our Safeguarding in Communities team. She continues to lend her expertise to organisations in the voluntary and community sector to ensure their safeguarding responsibilities are supported, understood and met, so that children and young people are safe.

Mike Williams has been working in evaluation for 20 years and joined the NSPCC in 2007. During this time, he has evaluated a range of initiatives relating to the prevention of child sexual abuse which includes working with the Somali community in East London and more recently the NSPCC’s child sexual exploitation programme, Protect & Respect.

Shirley Maginley is the NSPCC’s Senior Consultant for Faith and Minority Ethnic Communities. She works across communities to support and promote good practice in keeping children safe, facilitate learning and develop safeguarding initiatives that reflect cultural and ethnic diversity.

📚 Related resources

> Find out more about safeguarding in faith communities

Intro/outro music is Lights by Sappheiros

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