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London serious case reviews toolkit
- Author:
- LONDON SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN BOARD
- Publisher:
- London Safeguarding Children Board
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 73p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This Serious Case Review (SCR) Toolkit is designed to provide supplementary guidance to Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) members in the whole process of undertaking a SCR. Its focus is to support the carrying out of a SCR effectively, through supporting consistency in approach, providing additional guidance on undertaking the process and sharing learning and emerging good practice tools and exemplars. The overall aim is to maximise the learning that comes from the SCR in a local area. The statutory guidance on SCRs is set out in Chapter 8 of 'Working Together to Safeguard Children, 2010' and taken forward for London through the 'London Child Protection Procedures'. This SCR toolkit is designed to supplement this statutory guidance, it is not mandatory, but is offered as advice to support effective approaches. It also provides information about two additional approaches to case review as a useful contextual framework to the carrying out of SCRs; the systems approach as outlined in 'Learning Together to Safeguard Children: developing a multi-agency systems approach for case reviews' and the root cause analysis approach used by the health service.
London MASH information sharing guidance
- Authors:
- LONDON SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN BOARD, et al
- Publisher:
- London Safeguarding Children Board
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 16
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide is written for practitioners and managers who are working within a multi agency safeguarding hub (MASH). It is intended to supplement two key documents: 'Information sharing: guidance for practitioners and managers (DfES 2008); and 'Information sharing: further guidance on legal issues (DfES 2008). It provides a summary of the legal framework relating to the protection of personal information and how it is exchanged in a MASH; the rules for information sharing; and a reminder of the six Caldicott principles (1997) governing the sharing of information. (Edited publisher abstract)
London female genital mutilation resource pack
- Author:
- LONDON SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN BOARD
- Publisher:
- London Safeguarding Children Board
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 58p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This resource pack provides information and guidance for people who may encounter women or girls at risk of, or having undergone, female genital mutilation (FGM). This includes professionals in all frontline agencies and also individuals in community, faith and leisure groups. The pack draws on a large number of tools and guidelines and is intended to supplement, not replace, material already be available from national bodies, professional bodies and employers. The London Safeguarding Children Board, convened an expert steering group with the aim of collating existing information into this resource pack to increase awareness of what tools are available and improve access to them. (It should be read in conjunction with the London FGM procedure published in 2007). The pack includes resources on; identifying when a child may be at risk and responding in an appropriate way to provide protection; identifying when a child has been subject to FGM and responding appropriately; measures which can be implemented to prevent and ultimately eliminate the practice of FGM. The material is divided into four sections. Section A provides an overview of FGM, including definitions, facts and figures and the legislative framework. Section B collates procedures, guidelines and flowcharts for professionals. Section C contains information for professionals to use when raising awareness and Section D draws together links to other resources and has a list of FGM specialist health services.
London safeguarding trafficked children toolkit 2009
- Author:
- LONDON SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN BOARD
- Publisher:
- London Safeguarding Children Board
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 100p.
- Place of publication:
- London
London safeguarding trafficked children toolkit - this is an initiative to pilot a best practice multi-agency safeguarding children toolkit for responding to the trafficking of children, bringing together workstreams from London Councils, individual London LSCBs, the MPS and the Home Office (ACPO, CEOP and UKBA). The identification and assessment element of the toolkit will be used by the Home Office as part of the government's response to the requirements of the UK in ratifying the Council of Europe's Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings.
Safeguarding children affected by gang activity and / or serious youth violence: draft for consultation November 2008
- Author:
- LONDON SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN BOARD
- Publisher:
- London Safeguarding Children Board
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 49p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Following a number of requests to respond to the safeguarding of children affected by gang activity and/or serious youth violence in London, the London Safeguarding Children Board has agreed to produce a supplementary procedure to assist professionals working with this increasingly common issue. This procedure was launched for consultation at a serious youth violence summit on Friday 21st November 2008,
Practice guidance for safeguarding children in minority ethnic culture and faith (often socially excluded) communities, groups and families
- Author:
- LONDON SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN BOARD
- Publisher:
- London Safeguarding Children Board
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This practice guidance has been developed to assist action to protect and promote the welfare of children living in circumstances which appear to be complex because of their faith, culture, or nationality. The guidance is for use by all professionals who have contact with children living in families from minority ethnic groups and communities, and who therefore have responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting their welfare. The guidance is one of the outputs of a London Safeguarding Children Board project, the Pan London Safeguarding Children Minority Ethnic Culture and Faith Project 2010-2011. Key themes from the project centre on the core need to build trust between local minority ethnic culture and faith communities, groups and families and statutory services. This practice guidance sets out a framework of 6 competencies for effective safeguarding children practice. These competencies relate to: child development; listening to children; sound holistic assessments; cultural competence; informed practice; and partnership with specialist services and parent, communities and faith groups. The guidance also provides information, quotes from individuals who have been, or been at risk of, being harmed, descriptions of cases and lessons to be learned in relation to responding to child health and wellbeing concerns in minority ethnic families.
Government Office for London triage meeting report: 4th March, London Councils
- Author:
- LONDON SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN BOARD
- Publisher:
- London Safeguarding Children Board
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A workshop was organised to share innovative practice in relation to Children’s Social Care Assessment services and multi-agency approaches to triage. The workshop was requested by safeguarding specialists as a response to increases in contacts and referrals across London. The document summarises the key points from the workshop to promote good practice . It also provides examples of good practice from Islington's Referral and Advice Service; London Borough of Tower Hamlets Children’s Social Care Integrated Pathways and Support Team (IPST) Assessment and Early Intervention Service; the Merton Future Proofing Project; and the Hackney Triage Unit.
The London Regional Safeguarding Advisers: end of project case studies
- Author:
- LONDON SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN BOARD
- Publisher:
- London Safeguarding Children Board
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 10p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Three London Regional Safeguarding Advisers (LRSA) were appointed by the London Safeguarding Children Board in April 2010 to offer additional capacity to support improvement in arrangements to safeguard children. Since then, the advisers have been working within a host borough one day a week on agreed safeguarding issues, as well as responding to commissions from local areas for specific pieces of work to support local improvements and service developments. In addition, the advisers support some of the priorities of the London Safeguarding Children Board in developing how partners work together to keep children and young people safe. The advisers will undertake planned work with local areas in response to commissions, as well as prioritising safeguarding support where there may be a more urgent need. Advisers can be commissioned to provide a block of support or to provide support over time. At the conclusion of each project, the adviser will work with the borough to complete an end of project case study. As an example, this report presents several end-of-project case studies already completed by eight London boroughs.
Safeguarding children abused through domestic violence
- Author:
- LONDON SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN BOARD
- Publisher:
- London Safeguarding Children Board
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 62p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The three central imperatives of any intervention for children living with domestic violence are: to protect the children; to support the mother to protect herself and her children; and to hold the abusive partner accountable for his violence and provide him with opportunities to change. This London procedure for safeguarding children abused through domestic violence has now been approved by the London Safeguarding Children Board. This procedure should assist any professional and volunteer whose work brings them into contact with children and their families, to prioritise the needs of children, assess the risk of harm to children, taking into consideration the needs of their parents or carers, and respond appropriately in sharing information, referring on etc.
Local safeguarding children board strategy for engaging with minority ethnic culture and faith (often socially excluded) communities, groups and families to safeguard their children
- Author:
- LONDON SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN BOARD
- Publisher:
- London Safeguarding Children Board
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) engagement strategy is one of the outputs from the Pan-London Safeguarding Children Culture and Faith Project. This project sought to promote a step-change in safeguarding London’s children living in minority ethnic, culture or faith communities or groups. The LSCB strategy seeks to assist LSCBs to develop sound, effective and sustainable partnership working with local groups, communities and third sector agencies to protect and promote the wellbeing of children living in circumstances which appear to be complex because their faith, culture, nationality and possibly recent history differs significantly from that of host nation children and families. This document considers: LSCB responsibilities; development of a minority ethnic culture and faith engagement strategy; engaging minority ethnic culture and faith groups and communities; capacity building in minority ethnic culture and faith groups and communities to safeguard children; and training and community education.