The Commission on Gender Stereotypes in Early Childhood has
published a report looking at gender expectations and gender stereotypes in the
UK. Findings from responses to a call for evidence and a separate survey of
1,030 parents show that gender stereotyping persists in parenting, education
and the commercial sector and that it is harming young people’s mental health.
Recommendations to government include: embedding an understanding of gender
stereotypes in antenatal and health visiting practice; and issuing new teacher
training guidance to include knowledge and understanding of gender stereotypes,
and stereotypes relating to race and other protected characteristics
Things about the dark web...
The Children’s Society have published a guide to the dark web
describing what it is, how young people might use it and what to do if you have
safety concerns.
Things to connect you...
Our hugely successful and much appreciated Randomised Coffee Trial is running again in Feb/March. For anyone who has not heard about this before please do consider taking part. You sign up via this form, we then randomly match you with another participant and you both then agree a time and place to meet for 30-45 minutes just to chat (mostly virtual at present - though some people have walked in the park to combine some exercise if that is allowed under Covid-19 restrictions at the time of your meeting). Please sign up before 5th February. You can talk about work if you want to, but your conversations can be about anything. Think of it as the equivalent of bumping into someone around a water cooler. Participants really enjoy this opportunity and some recent feedback comments are:
I enjoyed it and found it very interesting to chat to people that you wouldn't normally get to meet with.
Love this!
I'll definitely do it again
Really enjoyed meeting a new colleague and finding out how we might support their team.
It's a great idea, I'd love to be involved in future
Still keen to take part, think this is a great innovation
Things about safeguarding...
Attensi, specialists in gamified simulation training, have collaborated with NSPCC Learning on a new 3D learning tool to help adults talk to children about abuse. The free tool enables learners to: access simulated scenarios and interact with fictional child characters; learn how to respond to the children and build their trust to help them talk about their experiences; and build knowledge and confidence to talk to children about abuse.
Things not quite connecting...
We have recently had to change one of our library emails (though still please contact us on illingworth.library@nhs.net) and this has resulted in some of our automatic library notifications going into people's nhs.net spam/junk folder. Do please check this folder regularly (not just for our emails) and if there is anything in there that you actually want please mark it as 'not spam' and add the address to your address book. Please be assured that notifications about overdue books are getting through correctly! 😀
Things to make...
Stay safe, warm and cosy in this cold weather. This Pork & apple stew with parsley & thyme dumplings is a winter favourite which we enjoyed last weekend. Very simple to make - I often use ordinary flour for the dumplings.
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