Tuesday 5 th February, 2013

1. Tuesday 5th February, 2013 Schools’ safeguarding briefing for new designated child protection co ordinators

2. The aims of this briefing are to:- • Understand your role and responsibilities • raise awareness of key legislation and guidance • Increase your understanding of the referral process and what makes a good referral • Help you to recognise and overcome barriers to disclosure • Update you on the allegations and complaints procedures • Equip you to support staff effectively

3. What do you think? • Safeguarding? • Child protection?

4. Child Protection Intimate Care Restraint Staff Conduct Anti Bullying Policies Curriculum Safeguarding Attendance Managing Allegations Against Staff Behaviour Management Safe Built Environment Whistle blowing Health and Safety Safe Recruitment and Selection

5. Where does child protection sit? Child Protection Assessment Framework . SAFEGUARDING .

6. Definition of Safeguarding Safeguarding is: • protecting children from maltreatment; • preventing impairment of children’s health or development; • ensuring that children are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and undertaking that role so as to enable those children to have optimum life chances and enter adulthood successfully. Working Together 2010

7. But ultimately ….. • To support you to help keep children safer

8. Areas of responsibility • Referrals • Training • Raising awareness

9. Referrals • Ensuring that information about concerns/disclosures is passed to you as soon as possible • Information about concerns/disclosures is recorded appropriately (see handouts) • Making decisions about whether to make a referral to social care • Ensuring actions and outcomes are recorded and feedback given to staff involved • Copies to EYSA / SSA

10. Thinking about a child/teenager in your life that you feel a worried about: What are you Worried About? What’s Working Well? What Needs to Happen? STEP THREE STEP ONE: START HERE, BACK AND FORWARDS What has happened, what have you seen, that makes you worried about this child/teenager? What do you like about ___ what are his/her best attributes? Having thought more about this problem now, what would you need to see that would make you satisfied the situation is at a 10? Who are the people that care most about ___? What are the best things about how they care for ____? What would ___ need to see that would make them say this problem is completely sorted out? When you think about what has already happened to ____ what do you think is the worst thing that could happen to ____ because of this problem? What would ___ say are the best things about his/her life? Who would ___ say are the most important people in his/her life? How do they help ___ grow up well? What do you think is the next step that should happen to get this worry sorted out? Are there things happening in ____’s life or family that make this problem harder to deal with? Has there been times when this problem has been dealt with or was even a little better? How did that happen? On a scale of 0 to 10 where 10 means this problem is sorted out as much as it can be and zero means things are so bad for the young person you need to get professional or other outside help, where do you rate this situation today? (Put different judgment numbers on scale for different people e.g., you, child, teacher etc). 0 10 STEP TWO: JUDGMENT

11. Training • Ensure DCPC and deputies refresh training every 2 years • All staff every 3 years • Induction safeguarding training for new staff • Safer recruitment – Statutory Head and at least one Governor, manager of setting • Allegations – Good practice for Head and Chair or manager, owner, or chair of committee of a setting • CPCs – attendance and provision of report

12. Training Swindon LSCB provide multi-agency child protection training • Online calendar • Online booking form • Annual conference • Requirements

13. Raising Awareness • Policy – how do we ensure all staff are kept up to date • Easily accessible • Copies of transfer files

14. School/Settings Safeguarding audit • School governing bodies/EY settings are required to carry out an annual review of their school’s/setting’s safeguarding practice and to provide information to the LA about how the duties set out in the DfE guidance (‘Safeguarding Children and Safer Recruitment in Education’) have been discharged.

15. Safeguarding Staff • Code of Conduct • Whistleblowing policy • Positive Handling • Allegations against members of staff

16. Code of conduct • All staff should have read the school’s /setting’s code and have signed to say they have read it, understood it and agree to the statements it contains. • Whistleblowing policy – reporting concerns How are concerns about staff recorded?

17. Positive Handling and the Use of Reasonable force • School/setting should have their own policy • Restraint should be used only rarely • All staff and volunteers working in the school/setting should be made aware of protocols • All incidents of the use of force by staff should be formally recorded • Complaints of inappropriate handling should be treated under child protection procedures • Uplands School provides Team Teach training on behalf of the LA

18. DfE statutory guidanceUpdated Sept 2012 • Quick resolution should be a clear priority • Suspension should not be the default option • Allegations found to be malicious should be removed from personnel records • Unsubstantiated or unfounded should not be referred to in employer references

19. Swindon guidelines • Head teacher/manager would take the lead on this, unless they are subject of allegation, then Chair of Governors/owner/Chair of Committee would take on the responsibility. • Settings-LADO to be first point of contact, then EYSA • Schools’ Safeguarding Adviser to be first point of contact • Initial information will be recorded (see handout) • Adviser to confirm actions with LADO and feedback to school • No further action by LADO (School to consider how the matter should be dealt with under employers’ procedures eg complaints / disciplinary) * • Allegations management/ strategy meeting/discussion

20. Safer recruitment • Deter • Reject • Prevent • Detect

21. Scaling back • Bichard Report – 2004 • Drawing the line – 2009 • June 2010 – Theresa May ordered a full review

22. 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 DBS (formerly 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.

23. Major changes at a glance… • New definition of regulated activity • 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

24. Regulated activity • Unsupervised activities: teach, train, instruct, care for or supervise children or provide advice / guidance on well-being or drive a vehicle only for children • Work for a limited range of establishments with opportunity for contact. (Not work by supervised volunteers) • Done regularly

25. Regulated activity cont’d • Relevant personal care or health care by or supervised by a professional • Registered child minders and foster carers

26. Schools’/ EY Safeguarding Adviser • Termly briefings (2 dates to choose from) • Termly safeguarding newsletter (x6) • Advice and support via telephone / e mail • Allegations • Feeling safe survey(schools only) • Monitoring

27. Monitoring of child protection • School/setting safeguarding audit outcomes • School/setting safeguarding audit visit (3 yearly cycle) • Attendance at CPCs and provision of reports • Leads meetings • Referral forms

28. Further Information • South West Child Protection Procedures accessed at www.online-procedures.co.uk/swcpp/ • LSCB web site at www.swindonlscb.org.uk

31. Websites • www.earlyyearschildcare.org