Transcript Early Years Safeguarding Briefing November 22nd 9.30

Early Years Safeguarding Briefing
November 22nd 9.30-11.30
Ceri Mcateer – EY Safeguarding Adviser
[email protected]
Tel: 465740
This is an information sharing session
and does not count as update
training
• Welcome
• Housekeeping
• Aim of the session: To provide
safeguarding updates and
information to CP Leads and
managers of settings.
Sarah Turner-School’s
Safeguarding Adviser
• Disclosure and Barring Updates
Allegation made
• Contact the Early Years Safeguarding adviser (Ceri McAteer 46
5740) or the Local authority designated officer (Steph
McQuade 466849 or Agnes Gault 466958)
• Information recorded about allegation and details about
alleged victim and perpetrator
• Decision made by LADO
At the end of the process…….
• May be a criminal prosecution
• No criminal prosecution but allegation is
found to be substantiated
• Referral to Independent safeguarding
authority – barred list
1st December , 2012
• ISA and CRB merged to form a new body, the
Disclosure and Barring service
2013
• Launch of new online update service
Not everything is changing…..
• If your organisation works with children / young people and a
member of staff is dismissed because they harmed a child, or
you would have done so had they not left, you must refer this
information to the ISA.
• An organisation which knowingly employs a barred individual
to work with children in regulated activity will be breaking the
law.
• A person will be breaking the law if they work or volunteer or
try to work or volunteer and are barred from working with
children and young people in regulated activity.
Major changes at a glance…
• New definition of regulated activity
• All staff employed directly by a setting
/school remain in regulated activity
• Others who are involved with a setting /
school (volunteers, governors, contractors
etc) will need to have their role in school
assessed to establish whether they are in
regulated activity or not.
• Settings /Managers should undertake a risk
assessment on a case by case basis taking into
account the following points:
Will the volunteer be supervised by a person that is
in regulated activity?
• Will the volunteer be supervised on a regular basis
ie. daily and ongoing?
• Will the supervision be ‘reasonable’ in the
circumstances to ensure the protection of children?
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To make this decision you should consider:
• Ages of children, including whether their ages
differ widely
• Number of children the individual is working with
• Whether or not other workers are helping to look
after children
• The nature of the work
• How vulnerable the children are
• There will be no entitlement to do a barred
list check on a volunteer who, because they
are supervised, is not in regulated activity.
• It is discretionary to setting managers to
undertake a CRB check however it is unlawful
to undertake a barred list check.
Major changes cont’d
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Repeal of controlled activity
Repeal of registration
Repeal of additional information
Minimum age (16) at which someone can
apply for CRB check
• More rigorous relevancy test prior to release
of information by the police
•EYFS Safeguarding and
Welfare Requirements
Ofsted defines Safeguarding as;
• Protecting children from maltreatment
• Preventing impairment of children’s health or
development
• Ensuring that children grow up in
circumstances consistent with the provision of
safe and effective care
• Enabling children to have optimum life
chances and to enter adulthood successfully
In an attempt to emphasise the
importance of safeguarding in the
new EYFS document what were
referred to previously as “Welfare
requirements” are now referred to
as “Safeguarding and Welfare
requirements”
What are the Safeguarding
reforms in the new EYFS
document?
• There are 7 identified
1. Child Protection
• The new document includes examples of adult
behaviour which might suggest abuse or neglect
of children in their care eg inappropriate sexual
comments, excessive 1:1 attention and
inappropriate sharing of images. (Plymouth
Nursery worker – Vanessa George)
• If a member of staff suspects this they should
respond appropriately to safeguard children in
their care. Appropriate action would be to report
concerns to CP lead unless that person is involved
in the concerns and then report straight to the
Local Authority Designated Officer .
2. Policies and Procedures
The new EYFS requires Safeguarding
policies to include guidance on the use of
mobile phones and cameras in the setting.
This guidance has been introduced to avoid
the misuse of photographs of children as in
the case of Vanessa George in 2009.
3. Suitable People
• The requirement for providers to check
the suitability of managers for
employment are simplified.
• Previously Ofsted obtained CRB
disclosures for managers but since
September 2012 it has been the
providers responsibility.
4. Staff qualifications, training,
support and skills (supervision)
It is now a requirement that providers will
give staff opportunities for coaching and
training, mutual support, teamwork and
confidential discussion of sensitive issues
5. Childminders
The importance of training for
childminders has been strengthened, they
are now required to complete training
before they register with Ofsted.
6. Staff Child Ratios
There is a clarification of the circumstances in
which there may be exceptions to the staff :
child ratios for childminders caring for children
of mixed ages.
Exceptions are when a childminder is looking
after their own or a sibling’s baby or when a 4/5
year old is minded after a school day or in a
school holiday, they can be looked after with 3
other “young” children, however the total
minded must not exceed 6 under the age of 8.
7. The safety and suitability of
premises, environment and
equipment
The requirements in relation to risk
assessment have been adjusted to clarify
that it is for providers to judge whether a
risk assessment needs to be recorded in
writing
Useful Resource
• Oxfordshire County Council have produced a
list of EYFS Safeguarding and Welfare MUST
HAVES and SHOULD HAVES
• www.oxfordshire.gov.uk EYFS Welfare
Requirements
General Updates
• Risk assessments
• Allegations
• Individual pupil chronology
• Setting disclosure/incident form
• The Single Central Record
Safeguarding Children and Safer Recruitment in
Education (2007)
Websites
• www.earlyyearschildcare.org
Websites
• www.swcpp.org.uk
Websites
• www.swindonlscb.org.uk
Sessions for CP Leads/Managers
Two new sessions running
• “Training the Trainer” – Using NSPCC training
materials to deliver Child Protection training
to staff – Tuesday 22nd January 1.00-3.30pm
• “New Child Protection Lead’s briefing”Looking at the role of the Child Protection
Lead - Tuesday 5th February 1.00-3.30pm
Comfort Break - Networking
Huw Ford – SBC IT Manager
• Appropriate use of mobile
phones and digital photography
Evaluation
Thank you for coming. I hope you
have found the session useful.
Please fill out an evaluation form
before you leave.
Reminder- Safeguarding reviews to
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be returned by 14 December.