Swindon LSCB Headlines, March 2009
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I compiled, created and presented these slides at a Senior Management Team Meeting of Swindon Borough Council, making them available to all partner agencies via the LSCB website
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Swindon LSCB Headlines, March 2009
- 1. Achievements 2008/09 & Key Objectives 2009/10Achievements 2008/09 & Key Objectives 2009/10 HighlightsHighlights
- 2. Swindon LSCB With Wiltshire LSCB, setting up a shared process and joint Child Death Overview Panel Developing process and carrying out Section 11 audit of partner agency arrangements to safeguard and promote the welfare of children under of the Children Act 2004 Undertaking a thematic audit programme of child protection cases and referrals (QA Sub-group) Continuing promoting the South West Child Protection Procedures and local guidance www.swcpp.org.uk Swindon LSCB
- 3. Swindon LSCB contd. Updating and improving the Swindon Serious Case Review Process Guide in line with recent guidance Organising two successful and well-attended conferences: ‘Risky Behaviours’ in April 2008, highlighting a number of current 'hot topics', including trafficking, runaways, online exploitation and e-safety and ‘Improving Safeguarding Practice’ in February 2009 aimed at sharing the learning from Serious Case Reviews Using the new national LSCB Challenge & Improvement Tool to develop an action plan to improve the LSCB’s governance Swindon LSCB
- 4. AIM Project – Sexually Harmful Behaviour “LSCB’s and Youth Offending teams should ensure that there is a clear operational framework in place for working with children and young people who abuse others, within which assessment, decision making and case management take place.” Working Together to Safeguard Children, Chapter 11 (11.35), DfES 2006 Evaluating our AIM pilot, with report to LSCB in June 2008 Appointing an AIM Project Co-ordinator for 1 day a week from January 2009 Swindon LSCB
- 5. Child Exploitation Re-assessing the need in the light of new guidance and performance indicators Developing separate but linked action plans for Sexual Exploitation and Runaways Setting up a new LSCB Sexual Exploitation and Runaways Group to take this work forward “Children involved in prostitution should be treated primarily as the victims of abuse, and their needs require careful assessment.” Safeguarding children involved in prostitution: supplementary guidance to Working Together to Safeguard Children Swindon LSCB
- 6. Safeguarding Children Online Setting up an e-safety Sub- group to help us to ensure that we are developing work in this area in line with BECTA guidance – Swindon was one of the earliest LSCB’s to do this Raising awareness of e-safety issues through sessions at our ‘Risky Behaviours’ Conference Swindon LSCB
- 7. Safer Recruitment Training 223 multi-agency staff in Safer Recruitment, through monthly courses attended by a wide range of professionals, following on from our successful work with schools in the previous year Swindon LSCB
- 8. ‘See the Adult, See the Child’ Completing an updated See the Adult, See the Child protocol which now includes parental mental health issues, substance misuse issues, disability, learning difficulty or criminal activity and imprisonment Launching the protocol at a well attended multi-agency partnership event attended by over 100 multi-agency staff from both Adult and Children Services Setting up a multi-agency working group drawn from Children and Adult Services to take forward work to embed the protocol into practice Swindon LSCB
- 9. Monitoring & Scrutiny Developing an effective Allegations reporting process based on our quarterly data submission to GOSW Identifying and responding to potential issues with the reporting system for child protection issues relating to underage sex to create a more robust process Carrying out a review of disabled children referrals Swindon LSCB Moving into 2009/10, Swindon LSCB is taking responsibility for monitoring ‘Stay Safe’ and has developed a comprehensive set of performance indicators.
- 10. Core Business 2009/10 Maintain up-to-date Child Protection Procedures Deliver Safeguarding Training Programme Promote Safeguarding & Swindon LSCB Promote good multi-agency working Identify/Resolve operational issues Carry Out Multi-Agency CP Audit Programme Complete Section 11 Monitoring Carry Out & Monitor Child Death Reviews. Carry Out & Monitor Serious Case Reviews. Monitor Children Looked After Monitor Disabled Children Monitor Allegations Against Staff & Safer Recruitment Monitor Licensing & Gambling Swindon LSCB
- 11. Key Projects 2009/10 AIM – Sexually Harmful Behaviour Sexual Exploitation & Runaways Safeguarding Children Online ‘See the Adult, See the Child’ Community Organisations Service User Consultation Unintentional Injury LSCB Governance Swindon LSCB
- 12. Additional Areas of Interest Advocacy services Drugs and alcohol Underage sex SARC (Sexual Assault Referral Centre) Gangs Extremism Swindon LSCB
- 13. For more information Swindon LSCB’s Website www.swindonlscb.org.uk
Notes de l'éditeur
- Swindon LSCB: to work together to safeguard Swindon’s children, delivering a quality service as defined in our Core and Key Objectives (see page 3). Priorities in 2008/9 will include establishing effective structures and processes around Child Death Reviews and the new Children’s Rights service and improving the method by which commitment to LSCB funding is secured. S11 – review partner agency arrangements to safeguard and promote the welfare of children under of the Children Act 2004 following our effective first joint review in 2008 (also with Wiltshire LSCB, ) Procedures - through an e-mail survey, a ‘Bus’ Partnership Event and our regular e-mail updates QA Sub - assessing the quality of information, recommending practice improvements and affirming existing good practice
- Process Guide – sold to other areas Conferences – attended by 133 and 155 people respectively Also training – around 1200 multi-agency staff over year, an increase on last year of around 20%
- Sexually Harmful Behaviour: following evaluation of the pilot project, to complete the implementation of a multi-agency strategy for intervention with children and young people who show sexually harmful behaviour.
- Child Exploitation: to gain an understanding of existing information sources and strategies and of the current levels of exploitation.
- Safeguarding Children Online: to achieve clarity as to existing local initiatives, identify the LSCB’s ongoing role and develop an e-safety strategy.
- Safer Recruitment: to widen the delivery of Safer Recruitment training with the aim that by April 2009 at least one member of all interview panels in organisations recruiting staff to work with children has received this or equivalent training.
- See the Adult, See the Child: to sign off and launch the newly revised See the Adult, See the Child , establishing recommendations as to actions needed to take this work forward for inclusion in our next Business Plan. See the Adult, See the Child (STASTC) – services for children and families affected by parental needs
- Monitoring & Scrutiny: to fulfil our responsibilities for monitoring work relevant to safeguarding in Swindon, in particular as this relates to Allegations Against Staff, Disabled Children, Children Looked After, Underage Sex, Young People & Alcohol and the Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) .
- AIM – taking project implementation forward, developing PIs, further training Sexual Exploitation & Runaways – New group, delivery against action plan and national PIs, monitoring, guidance & awareness raising Safeguarding Children Online – developing action plan, targets, training, e-safety policy ‘ See the Adult, See the Child’ - setting up implementation group, overseeing implementation of the protocol, developing training Community Organisations - exploring ways to build on existing work (launch of Safer Communities Toolkit) to extend safeguarding messages more fully into the wider community, including making links with the new NSPCC led Safeguarding Unit for the Third Sector. Service User Consultation – involving young people wherever possible in events, developing effective feedback from the Children's Rights Service and SAMS on views of parents and children involved in CP process, review of Tellus outcomes. Unintentional Injury - “The LSCB has a duty to monitor the effectiveness of what is done to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. . . Furthermore, the LSCB undertakes this role ‘so as to enable those children to have optimum life chances and enter adulthood successfully’. . . In the light of this framework, unintentional injury should be a priority for those charged with delivery at a local level.” Better Safe Than Sorry – Executive Summary, page 18, Audit Commission, 2007 PSA 13 -/PFI NI70 - Hospital admissions caused by unintentional and deliberate injuries to children and young people – setting monitoring in place LSCB Governance – developing LSCB governance based on our use of the Challenge & Improvement Tool . In particular, developing better management information and performance analysis, as well as risk analysis. The LSCB needs to be clear what difference it is making.
- LSCB Business Plan will be published shortly, with some hard copies available. This will give much more detail, including performance indicators and risk analysis. As always, we will be using it as a working document, with regular updates posted on our website in the ‘About Us/LSCB Documents’ section. Annual Report is usually available in July.