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Giving Children and Young People the Best Start in Life
Thursday 6th June, 2013
Schools’ safeguarding briefing for designated child protection co
ordinators
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Working together 2013 Background
• Revision published and came in to force on 15th April 2013
• Over 700 pages down to 97• Statutory guidance• Part of the reforms identified by Eileen Munro• Child in focus at all stages – beginning, middle and
end• Localised services to improve outcomes• Expectation that collaborative inter-agency work will
improve outcomes for the child
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Assessing need and providing help
• Strong focus on the importance of early help
• Local services to work together to provide effective services based on early assessment
• Referrals – threshold document
• feedback to explain why not met
• Information sharing
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Assessing need cont’d
• Supervision – does the help given lead to a significant, positive change for the child? Is the pace of that child appropriate for the child involved?
• Within one working day of RF1 being received decision should be made about type of response (by SW)
• IA and core assessments replaced by single assessment
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Organisational responsibilities
• Paragraph 4 lays out the responsibilities which schools and colleges have in respect of safeguarding
• Includes section about allegations children – this has been tightened up with all agencies required to report all allegations to the LADO within 1 working day.
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LSCBs
• Role – to scrutinise local arrangements and hold partners to account
• Additional responsibilities in this document include – oversight of early help arrangements, clarifying threshold decisions and developing a local framework for learning and development
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Learning and Improvement Framework
• Need to reflect on quality of service
• Learn from own practice and that of others
• Sharing of good practice
• Lessons learnt when things go wrong
• Links to QA
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Serious Case Reviews
• National panel of independent experts- oversee, advise and challenge on whether to conduct SCR
• All SCRs to be published in full
• Systems approach
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Keeping Children Safe in Education?
• Dfe Consultation – responses by June 20th
• No reference in address to LAs
It is for front line skilled professionals to use their own knowledge and judgement to safeguard and promote the
welfare of children in their care
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Please respond……….
• https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/keeping-children-safe-in-education
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Time for a break
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Scenarios
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Keeping procedures in mind
• Written to support schools with updating staff and to ensure staff are dealing effectively with safeguarding and CP issues
• School’s own policy and procedure should be available at the time of activity
• Most important points to remember are:-
Record and share
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Feeling Safe 2013/14• The 2013 feeling safe survey is now open. This
year the survey has moved from the merlin learning platform to survey monkey.
• The survey can be found by typing in the following link:-
• Primary survey (open to Year 6 pupils) https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GHZL7X6
• Secondary survey (open to all year groups) https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BKGH3FH
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DBS Update
On 17th June the DBS launches the ‘Update service’•Individuals can choose to subscribe for an annual fee of £13•Service will keep DBS certificate up to date and portable•Employer will be able to go online and check
Registered bodies will not be sent a copy of the DBS certificate.
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And finally……………