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Children & Young People’s Resource Pack – Summer 2025 Edition

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The Summer Edition of the Children & Young People’s Resource Pack is OUT Now!

Includes activity ideas and recipes to help keep the kids entertained over the summer break, along with disability and mental health resources, plus more!

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Download at: https://cypsp.hscni.net/download/426/cyp-resource-pack/46396/children-young-peoples-resource-pack-summer-2025.pdf 

(Note: Newsletter will download directly to your device.  Look out for the pop-up box and click on open file when it appears).

Resources and activities are free and in the public domain.

Please share with contacts who you think would find it useful.

Guidance on AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material

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SBNI Online Safety Committee in partnership with the National Crime Agency (NCA) and the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), have created an essential guide for professionals working with children and young people to understand the risks of AI-generated child sexual abuse material.

This resource is specifically tailored for professionals in Northern Ireland and addresses the urgent and growing threat of AI-generated child sexual abuse material (AI-CSAM). The guide offers clear, practical advice on identifying and responding to AI-CSAM, and reinforces that this material must be treated with the same seriousness and safeguarding response as any other form of CSAM.

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Download resource at: https://onlinesafetyhub.safeguardingni.org/child-sexual-abuse-material-generated-by-artificial-intelligence/ 

FREE Financial Advice – Mid Ulster Area

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Money Minder – Free Financial Advice from STEP in the Mid Ulster area

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New Guide on Setting Up a Peer Support Group

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Following on from Parentline NI’s recent school avoidance event held in Lisburn, it was evident that peer support groups can play an important role in supporting parents and carers.  

The Parent Participation Service at Children in NI have developed a new guide to support parents in setting up peer support groups.

Peer support can play a powerful role in building connection, resilience and shared learning within communities and we hope this guide can be used to help facilitate the development of new peer support groups across Northern Ireland.

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