(a)

this project was started in Plymouth and was chosen as one of four pilot sites across the country to support the community to prevent harmful sexual behaviour and sexual offending;

(b)

the project was about increasing confidence in preventing child sexual abuse particularly amongst professional groups and community leaders trying to increase the knowledge and evidence base about what works in terms of prevention;

(c)

they undertook a survey within the community to understand what people know about preventing sexual abuse within the community as a baseline study;

(d)

they were developing a multi-stranded evaluation approach embedded within the project and to look at what they can learn, the impact and how this project could be implemented within other communities;

(e)

they wanted to create projects across the city but wanted to learn what works in one community first so to be absolutely sure about its efficacy before going further afield with the aim of create lasting change within a community;

(f)

they have developed a training package based on early conversations with the different communities where there was still a lot of misconceptions around the prevention of sexual abuse.  This training has been delivered to 114 members of staff;

(g)

the city was moving to become more trauma informed and the together for childhood was fundamental part of that.  It was about creating the conditions for wanting to be more proactive around prevention work and so we're really seeing again multi-agency partners involved and currently have 159 different people as part of the Trauma Network;

(h)

they were also delivering a programme called sharing the science so that staff have a common language when talking to families around brain development.  Other programmes include the pants campaign and they have co-designed a healthy relationships campaign.  They were also looking at peer to peer relationships and were working with 25 young people from Marine Academy;

(i)

they have secured additional money to undertake work around harmful sexual behaviour over the next four years.  This ambitious preventative programme was significant for the city in terms of preventative work and should be celebrated because it has given the city opportunities to intervene on a whole range of levels.

(j)

Ernesettle was the finally selected because of the strength of the community networks and they were a group of people who were already very concerned about the issues and wanted to work with us.  The messaging was about positively addressing the issue of sexual abuse rather than saying that there was a problem within that community.  This was about preventative work and using the strengths of the community;

(k)

the Trauma Informed Network has actually been part of the building blocks to learning and have commissioning colleagues involved at a strategic level and operational level to share the learning.  This also has to be business as usual and not about parachuting in and putting additional resources, it's about how do we as a system work together better to keep our children safe;

(l)

it was very clear that a different community they wouldn't take the same approach which had worked well in Ernesettle.  They would look at the differences and build on the learning to ensure the right outcomes.