CALDERDALE SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN BOARD

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West Yorkshire Safeguarding Consortium
Safeguarding Procedures

• Briefing
• Paul Sharkey
• Safeguarding Manager to
• Calderdale Safeguarding Children Board

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Briefing Overview

• 1. Why have they been updated?
• 2. How have they been updated?
• 3. Whats different?
• 4. Next steps?
• 5. Navigating the new Procedures
• 6. Practice using the Procedures

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Why Updated?

• Recent Government GuidanceWorking Together
  2006
• Calderdale Joint Area Review Action Plan 2006/07
• Calderdale Children Young Peoples Plan 2006/07

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New Procedures incorporating Practice and Policy
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• Every Child Matters Agenda - eg CAF
• Children Act 2004 - eg LSCBs
• Bichard Recommendations eg Rec 19 Safe
  Recruitment
• Lamming Report 2003
• Joint Safeguarding Inspection Report 2002/05
• Current best practice from four LSCBs
  (Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield)
• West Yorkshire Safeguarding Consortium
• Web-based procedures access via
  www.calderdale-scb.org.uk/procedures

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How have they been updated?
Consultation with individual member agencies
Mandate from CSCB
2. CSCB Policy Procedures Sub-Group
scrutinise and amend 1st draft
Commissioned by WYSC September 2006
Mandate from PP Sub-Group given to
1. Tri-Ex produce 1st draft based on Working
Together and current procedures from 4 LSCBs.
3. 4 LSCB Safeguarding Managers integrate
Procedures based on consensus, compromise
agreement on best practice.
4. Agreed 2nd draft passed back to Tri-Ex.
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• Done in three chunks in-
• December 2006
• January 2007
• February 2007
• Completed March 2007
• HTML formatted April 2007
• Ready 14 May 2007
• Implemented 2 July 2007

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Amendment Process

• Pass on any comments to Agency rep on Policy
  Procedure Sub Group (see Website for details) or
  CSCB member if agency not represented on
  sub-group.
• Policy Procedure Sub-Group will consider
  amendments and make recommendations to SIG or
  CSCB depending on magnitude of change.
• SIG/CSCB will give approval in principle to
  amendment if appropriate, along with some degree
  of flexibility regarding final wording, to be
  negotiated within West Yorkshire Safeguarding
  Consortium.
• Amendment approved by four LSCBs/WYS
  Consortium.
• Amendment incorporated into Safeguarding
  Procedures at quarterly meeting of WYS Consortium
  and Tri-Ex
• New version of Safeguarding Procedures.

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Key Differences

• Many Procedures (especially Core Procedures) stay
  the same
• Introduction The new procedures reflect a
  successful partnership between the 4 LSCBs. They
  reflect Working Together 2006
• Contents procedures are in 12 parts

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Brief Summaryincluding Whats New About These
Procedures 1 of 3

• Generic term Childrens Social Care Services is
  used New!
• Child Protection Plans rather than registration
  New!
• Child in Need Plan could be drawn up rather than
  Child Protection Plan New!
• If no majority decision, then the chair will make
  the decision.
• Information about all children in the household
  and which ones are the subject must be in the
  social workers report New!
• Enquiries by other agencies will be enquiries to
  the list rather than to the register New!
• Pre-birth conferences an unborn baby could be
  the subject of a Child Protection Plan New!

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Brief Summaryincluding Whats New About These
Procedures 2 of 3

• The key worker must see the child alone at least
  every 4 weeks New!
• Key workers manager must chair the first core
  group meeting New!
• Core group members must give adequate notice if
  unable to attend and arrange for a colleague or
  provide summary New!
• The Complaints and appeals amended. Now 2
  Stages
• Conference chair to Complaints and appeals panel
  New! Resolution of professional disagreement -
  summarises resolution of differences at different
  stages New!
• Children in specific circumstances covers
  various including abuse by children, disabled
  children, internet, children from abroad,
  domestic violence and forced marriages New!

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Brief Summaryincluding Whats New About These
Procedures 3 of 3

• Some procedures are to follow still being
  written.
• Procedures will be reviewed every 6 months. We
  have PP Sub-Group plus feedback form on the
  website. Feed through to Consortium.

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Next Steps

• Go to the Procedures now atwww.calderdale.scb.o
  rg.uk/policies
• Agencies need to update their procedures in
  compliance with CSCB inter-agency Safeguarding
  Procedures.
• Use new Procedures from
• Monday 2 July 2007