Safeguarding and Promoting Childrens Welfare in School Governors Locality Briefing Lessons from Seri

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Safeguarding and Promoting Childrens Welfare in
SchoolGovernors Locality Briefing Lessons
from Serious Case Reviews (April 2009)

• Louise Bath
• Schools and Education Safeguarding Coordinator

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Local Context

• Since 1 April 2006 Nottingham City Safeguarding
  Children Board has completed a total of seven
  Serious Case Reviews, and a further review was
  commissioned in January 2009, in accordance with
  Chapter 8 of Working Together to Safeguard
  Children, HM Gov 2006.

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Legal Context

• LAs should.. Monitor the compliance of
  maintained schools with this guidance, in
  particular in regard to the existence and
  operation of appropriate policies and procedures,
  and the training of staff, including the senior
  person with designated responsibility for child
  protection. Bring any deficiencies to the
  attention of the governing body of the school and
  advise the action needed to remedy them.
• Safeguarding Children and Safer Recruitment in
  Education, DfES 2007

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Key Themes

• Training
• Recording Practice
• Information Sharing
• Practice Guidance, Policies and Protocols

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Training Audit
Deadline for completion 1st June 2009
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Recording Practice

• Each pupil on roll at the school should have a
  curricular record and this should be updated
  annually this record should include
• Annual Attendance Certificate
• Annual Report covering all aspects of the
  curriculum, and relevant pastoral/welfare aspects
  of childs presentation in school
• Correspondence between the parent and school and
  vice versa
• Copies of accident reports, behaviour reports,
  exclusions, referrals for non-attendance etc
• SATS results at each Key Stage
• Internal Concern Forms (except where the content
  is confidential)
• Confidential Pupil Files should be established
  where
• A referral has been made to an external agency
  for a service
• Safeguarding/Child Protection concerns exist
  and/or the child is subject to a Child Protection
  Plan or Care Plan
• The child is the subject of a CAF

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Recording Practice Audit

• 4 secondary schools
• 9 primary schools
• 2 special schools
• Audits will take place between 08.06 10.07.2009

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Information Sharing

• When pupils moves schools either a fixed
  transition points or part way through an academic
  year it is crucial that the childs curricular
  record, SEN record and confidential record
  transfers to the new school.
• The schools Safeguarding and Child Protection
  Policy should reflect how the transfer of pupil
  files will be managed and consideration should be
  given to the storage of pupil records where the
  details of the new school are not known.

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Practice Guidance

• This document was launched on 1 April 2009 and
  has been circulated electronically to Head
  Teachers. It should be available to all school
  staff for reference purposes and a copy should be
  made available to the Safeguarding Governor.
• You are cordially invited to attend the launch
  event for the Practice Guidance on Tuesday 2 June
  2009, details of which are contained in the
  resource pack provided for this session.