ENGAGING WITH COMMUNITIES
Ways of engaging with communities
• FIND OUT
• CONNECT WITH COMMUNITIES
• 3 LISTEN
• NEGOTIATE WAYS OF WORKING TOGETHER
Challenges of the work
Key messages from the project about engaging with
communities
• Limited available literature on the 4 areas of concern with the exception of FGM.
• Identifying the key partners in preventing and promoting the issues of safeguarding children and how to sustain lasting links with Faith Groups and targeted community organisations.
• The absence of a simple summary child protection leaflet to hand out to individuals at seminars in different languages.
• Collating information : Quantitative information on the 4 areas of concern is very difficult as baseline info is almost non existent
• Issues outside the CPA areas of concerns which were identified as concerns from the communities.
• Limited information about which community/faith group agencies exist in a given borough and what initiatives or services they are offering or may want to become involved in.
• Limited information about what family support services and community services the CPA can direct families to.