3. +
Background…
1.6m children in London
40% BME
Disproportionality - SCRs
Parenting practices vs UK legislation on
child rearing and safeguarding
Community knowledge of legislation
and resources
Professionals understanding and
weighting of family culture and
sensitivities
Trust needs to be built between
statutory services and faith and cultural
groups – so that protection of children
is prioritised.
Beliefs
Drive
Behaviour
4. +
…Background
New Migrant Fund
Pan London Steering Group
All boroughs deliver focus groups (adult variations)
Identify and disseminate best practice
8 Local Authorities with projects
July 2010 to December 2011
5. +
Outputs
Guidance on culture and faith issues to accompany the
London Child Protection Procedures
A Strategy Toolkit to assist LSCBs engage with local
communities whose culture and faith distinguishes them from
the host nation
A Training Toolkit to assist professionals to better safeguard
children whose circumstances include culture and faith
issues
Conference held jointly with Trust for London in April 2011
London Councils conference in December 2011
6. +
Best practice – local authority audit
Ethnic monitoring
Policies in place, processes for
updating
Equalities impact assessment
Designated BME/Faith
safeguarding person
Process for views of BME/Faith
to influence service provision
Publications to promote
safeguarding of BME/Faith
Prevention? Parent support
programmes for BME/Faith
Training courses for
professionals working with
BME/Faith
7. +
Barnet’s contribution
Increase knowledge and uptake of safeguarding resources by
faith and BME communities through advice service.
Safeguarding surgery on-the-road
www.thefaithbook.co.uk
Involve young people through Junior Safeguarding Board
Newly formed in October 2010
Conference with SACRE in March 2011
Focus on supplementary schools and their particular needs
Focus group with Safe Networks on 30th
November
Specific training with ContinYou
Piloting materials, toolkits and information through focus groups
and learning sets.
8. +
Other boroughs…
Bexley – community parenting
support groups for BME,
managing inter-generational
tensions
Brent – community needs
assessment, creating a
community lead sub-group for
the local SCB. – focus on BME
( Victoria Climbe Foundation).
Links to work in Harrow.
Enfield – training for
professionals, church and
community leaders and parents
to promote early intervention
and prevention in African
communities. (AFRUCA)
Hackney – Community group work
with Turkish/Kurdish families to
address domestic violence and
intergenerational conflict.
Merton – Investigating the extent
and causes of disproportionality in
child protection interventions for
minority ethnic and faith
communities. Links to AFRUCA work
in Southwark.
Newham – sexual abuse and spirit
possession in relation to Muslim
teenage girls.
Tower Hamlets – Piloting a multi-
agency cultural competence training
programme
9. +
Focus group questions for faith and
cultural community groups
What do you think are the priority safeguarding children
issues in your community and/or faith group?
What is your experience of the statutory and voluntary
services for supporting families and keeping children safe in
your area?
What do you think statutory services professionals need to
know and do (in relation to your culture and/or faith) that
would help keep children safe?
10. +
Focus group questions for
professionals
What do you feel least confident about when acting to
safeguard children/support families from minority ethnic
cultures and faiths?
Do you have easy access to expert advisers for the minority
ethnic communities and faith groups that you deal with in
your area?
What training would you like to improve your confidence and
competence to safeguard children/support families from
minority ethnic cultures and faiths?
What do you think your LSCB could do to assist you in your
task of safeguarding children in different culture and faith
communities and groups?
11. +
Stakeholders
London Councils
Barnet Safeguarding Children
Board
Faith and Culture sub-group
(membership and TOR?)
Professionals working with
children in Barnet
Faith communities – via
faithbook and CommUNITY
Barnet
BME and new migrant
communities via CommUNITY
Barnet
Supplementary schools via
BSSF
ContinYou
Junior Safeguarding Board
Barnet Multi Faith Forum
… and others
12. +
Linked Project – Safe Network
4 Boroughs
Engaging with faith groups to
understand how they access
safeguarding support
What are the barriers
Jointly managed by NSPCC and
Children England
Elaine Ryan to October Pan London
meeting
Also CD available – Keeping our children
safe – Raising awareness in black and
minority ethnic communities.
13. +
So far…
Membership of steering group
Scoping the Barnet contribution
across the four strands
Research into existing resources
Audit of Barnet’s policies and
procedures
Proposed focus groups
Designed and delivered on-line
survey
Post training evaluation form
questions
Briefings
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karen@flourishing.me.uk
07941 203564
www.flourishing.me.uk
Link to on-line focus group questions:
www.surveymonkey.com/s/faithandculture
Link to project update:
www.londonscb.gov.uk/culture_and_faith/
Link to BME/Faith safeguarding resources:
www.slideshare.net/karenwalkden/safeguarding-resources-for-faith-and-bme
Link to this presentation: