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To raise awareness of national safeguarding issues and
the Portsmouth perspective
To provide training to help staff deal with any
safeguarding issues that they may face
To increase knowledge surrounding safeguarding and
information sharing.
Safeguarding INSET – Friday 12th February 2010
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Session One – Iain
National, local and school perspective
Session Two – Ash
Case study work
Afternoon Session
E-learning modules
Safeguarding INSET – Friday 12th February 2010
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• Victoria was brought to the UK in
April 1999 from the Ivory Coast, via
France, by Therese-Marie Kouao,
her great-aunt.
• Therese-Marie Kouao offered
Victoria's parents the chance of a
good education for their daughter.
• She had been brought into the UK in
a private foster agreement.
• On 25 February 2000 Victoria died.
Victoria Climbié
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• Victoria was known to four social services
departments, three housing departments, two GPs,
two NHS hospitals, an NSPCC-run family centre and
two police child protection teams
• Victoria had contact with a childminder and with faith
based organisations
• Following the death of Victoria Climbié in 2000, the
Government asked Lord Laming to conduct an inquiry
into the circumstances leading up to her death
• The inquiry became known as “The Victoria Climbié
Inquiry”, or “The Laming Report”
Victoria Climbié Inquiry
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Every Child Matters (ECM) was published in September
2003 following Lord Laming’s report on the death of
Victoria Climbié. Its proposals formed the core of the
subsequent Children Act 2004 for every child, whatever
their background or circumstance to be supported in
order to:
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Be Healthy
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Stay Safe
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Enjoy and Achieve
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Make a positive contribution
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Achieve economic well being
Every Child Matters
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• The Laming Report had 108 recommendations to ensure
that no child ‘slipped through the net’ in the future
The main recommendations were:
• A change in the management structure of services for
children and young people
• The creation of a Director and Lead Member for Children
Services
• The creation of the Children’s Commissioner in England
• A database – ContactPoint – containing basic details
about children and young people
• Data Protection and Human Rights Acts
Recommendations from The Laming Report
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Baby Peter
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• Failure to identify CYP at
immediate risk of harm
• Agencies working in
isolation – limited contact
• Poor practice in collecting
and sharing information
• Varied front line practice &
poor supervision
• Insufficient management
oversight
• Insufficient challenge by
the Local Safeguarding
Children Board
• An over-dependence on
performance data, which
was not always accurate
• poor child protection plans
• failure to talk directly to
children at risk or to see
them alone
Baby Peter – Ofsted Inspection
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Ed Balls - Children’s Minister:
– Lord Laming Progress Review
& Report on Effectiveness of
arrangements for
safeguarding
– Directors and Lead Member
asked to assure themselves of
quality of safeguarding
– LSCB Chairs: LSCB Stocktake
Ofsted:
– Re-inspection of Haringey
– Chief Inspectors Report
– Learning Lessons – Serious
Case Reviews
– Closed consultation on
Corporate Assessments and
safeguarding inspections
DCSF:
– Statutory guidance on
Children’s Trusts
– In response to Audit
Commission ‘Are we there
yet?’
– Children’s Plan one year on
– 21st Century Schools
– Social Work Taskforce - Jan
Response to Baby Peter
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Building Brighter Futures
The National Children’s Plan
• Published in December 2007
• A huge array of developments to take forward the
Every Child matters agenda
• "Children's Trusts to have in place by 2010
consistent high quality arrangements to provide
identification and early intervention for all children
and young people who need addition help".
National Policy Initiatives
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Schools White paper
Your Child, Your Schools, Our Future
• Published in December 2009
• “Every pupil will go to a school that promotes their
health and wellbeing”
• “Every pupil will go to a school where they are taught
in a way that meets their needs and where they
receive the support they need”
• Includes a framework for Early Intervention
• Schools cannot do this alone – all agencies need to
work together around individual children
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Working Together to Safeguard Children
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Published in 2006 – due to be revised 2009
Statutory guidance
Outlines function of LSCBs
Roles and responsibilities of agencies in
safeguarding
• Outlines processes for child protection
• Sets out the role of Child Death Overview
Panels and Serious Case Review process
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• Two judgements on safeguarding will be
made; under the leadership and
management section and in the staying
safe outcome section of all reports.
• All remits will be judged on the
effectiveness of providers and services
in ensuring that children and learners
are safe and feel safe.
• The safeguarding grades will contribute
to and may limit the grade for overall
effectiveness.
Revised Ofsted Arrangements
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• Providers will be expected to provide evidence for inspectors to
show that the safeguarding outcomes and features are promoted
in all aspects of their work. This will most commonly be
demonstrated through their self-evaluation. As part of the
inspection the self-evaluation will be tested against inspection
evidence.
• As a minimum, the aspects of the features which focus on the
child protection/safety dimension of safeguarding (core features
set out in remit-specific guidance) are those which must be
explored in depth during institutional inspections.
• where a judgement of satisfactory is awarded for
safeguarding it is most unlikely that the overall effectiveness
of the provider will be better than good.
Revised Ofsted Arrangements
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Directors of Children’s Services and Lead Members
• Both posts formed by the Children’s Act 2004
• A Director (DCS) is a single senior strategic leader for
Children’s Trusts – Julian Wooster in Portsmouth
• Employed by the local authority to manage education and
social care functions
• But also responsible for securing good outcomes across
the Children’s Trust partnership
• The Lead Member for Children was also created by the
Children’s Act - Cllr John Ireland in Portsmouth
• The Lead Member ‘exercises local political accountability
for the same range of services as the director’
Portsmouth Perspective
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Local Safeguarding Children’s Boards (LSCB)
• Formed from the Children’s Act 2004 to replace old Area
Children Protection Committees
• The LSCB is part of the Children’s Trust structure and
reports to the Children’s Trust Board.
• However, LSCB’s also have a ‘scrutiny’ role to challenge
the Children’s Trust to ensure children are kept safe
• LSCB’s have responsibility for;
- Publishing the local child protection procedures
- Supporting (and challenging) safeguarding practice
- Participating in planning and commissioning
- Reviewing the deaths of children and Serious case
reviews.
Portsmouth Perspective
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Schools can keep children and young people safe by :
• providing a safe environment for children and young people to
learn
• identifying children & young people who are suffering or likely
to suffer significant harm
• taking appropriate action with the aim of making sure they are
kept safe both at home and in school
This can be achieved by:
• preventing unsuitable people working with children and young
people
• promoting safe practice and challenge poor & unsafe practice
• Identifying where there are grounds for concern about a child’s
welfare, and initiate or take appropriate action to keep them
safe
• Contributing to effective partnership working between all those
involved with providing services for children and young people
Safeguarding Children in Schools
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Head Teachers need to:
• Put in place procedures for handling cases of suspected
abuse
• Appoint senior member of school's leadership team to coordinate action within the school & liaise with other agencies
on suspected abuse cases ‘Designated Senior Person for
Child Protection’
• Ensure that the designated senior person receives
appropriate training and support
• Ensure that all staff are alert to signs of possible abuse &
know to whom to report any concerns or suspicions
• Make parents aware of the school's child protection policy
• Consider how SEF covers all arrangements – Ofsted sharp
focus
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/wholeschool/familyandcommunity
/childprotection/schools/designatedseniorpersonrole/
Child Protection - Whole School Issues 1
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Designated Senior Person for Child Protection
Needs to have appropriate training and should know:
• how to identify the signs and symptoms of abuse and
when to make a referral
• the LSCB & LA procedures and their own role within them
• the role and responsibilities of the investigating agencies
and how to liaise with them
• the requirements of record keeping
• the purpose of a child protection conference and how the
designated senior person or another member of staff can
make an appropriate contribution to it
• how to contribute towards a multi-agency assessment,
child protection plan and core group
• Children’s Services updating lists and training tracker
Child Protection - Whole School Issues 2
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Safeguarding role of governing body to ensure school has:
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Child protection policy and procedures in place
Effective safe recruitment and disciplinary procedures
A senior member of the school's leadership team designated to take
lead for child protection
Arrangements for the head teacher, and all other staff who work with
children undertake appropriate training, that is kept up to date by
refresher training at 3 yearly intervals
To ensure any deficiencies or weaknesses in regard to child
protection arrangements that are brought to its attention without
delay
To ensure that a member of the governing body (usually the Chair) is
nominated to be responsible for liasing with the Children’s Services
and /or partner agencies
Reviewed its policies and procedures annually
Clear understanding of the contribution their school can make to
helping children keep safe
Governing Body Responsibilities
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teachernet.gov.uk/childprotection
• Safeguarding Children and Safer Recruitment in
Education 2006
• Working Together to Safeguard Children
• ‘What to do if you are worried a child is being abused’
• LSCB protocols & procedures : lscb.norfolk.gov.uk
• Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006
– Vetting and Barring Scheme (VBS) will replace
current scheme (October 09)
– Independent Safeguarding Authority will work
alongside CRB
Key Documents for Schools