Rcscb E- Mail Bulletin January 2015

RCSCB E- MAIL BULLETIN – JANUARY 2015

The RCSCB E-mail bulletin is sent to all Board Members and Task Group Chairs. While members are welcome to forward this to colleagues (where appropriate), we would ask that secondary recipients raise any queries about the bulletin, or its attachments and hyperlinks, with the RCSCB Business unit in the first instance.

Welcome to the January edition of RCSCB E-mail Bulletin; Happy New Year! I welcome any comments or feedback on this bulletin or any items you would like to submit for future editions. Please email me at: [email protected]

Please check our Redcar and Cleveland LSCB website for regular updates and minutes from Board meetings. www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/safeguarding

RCLSCB UPDATE

The practitioner sessions held with the Independent Chair in relation to the Threshold Criteria: Continuum of Need, identified several issues which have been reported to the Board. Board Members have been requested to consider the issues and they will respond with what action has been taken; this will be reported in a future LSCB ebulletin.

Board members have been asked to contribute to the consultation opportunity for revisions to Working Together.

Revisions_to_workin g_together_to_safeguard_children.pdf

As the DfE have imposed a tight timescale, RCSCB would welcome your comments; to be sent to [email protected] by 23rd January 2015. The revisions of Working Together 2013 are significant areas of LSCB interest as follows:

RCLSCB E-Mail Bulletin –January 2015 Page 1  The referral of allegations against those who work with children (the LADO arrangements). In effect the revision attempts to ensure that allegations necessitating a referral about a child, connected with someone who works with children, are coordinated. Depending on how your local authority discharges these functions this is an opportunity to influence the proposals.  What is considered to be a notifiable incident to Ofsted. In effect this has implications for the consideration of what constitutes an incident which may require a serious case review. Please note that these arrangements will also be scrutinized by Ofsted in their review of LSCBs and in the inspections they conduct in future  The definition of serious harm for the purposes of serious case reviews. This has implications for those incidents which should be managed under the serious case review arrangements.

RCSCB are facilitating a Safeguarding Conference which has been scheduled for 27th February 2015; see attached flyer.

RCSCB CONFERENCE 2015.doc

The attached leaflet, RCSCB; Information for Professionals has been produced to encourage awareness of the work that the Board undertakes, please disseminate to all appropriate colleagues.

scrproinfo - formatted 08012015.docx

Tees Safeguarding procedures

The following procedures have recently been approved by all Tees LSCB and will shortly be published on the Tees Procedures website www.teescpp.org.uk

 Child Abuse and ICT  Procedure for Assessing and Responding to the Impact of Parental Learning Disability or Learning Difficulty on children  Procedure for Assessing and Responding to the experience and impact of Parental / Carer Substance Misuse on Children  Procedure for Assessing and Responding to Fabrication and Induction of Illness in Children LSCB TRAINING

RCLSCB E-Mail Bulletin –January 2015 Page 2 DATE TIME COURSE TRAINER(S)

09-Jan-15 09.30am to 4.30pm Emotional Abuse Neil Ventress, Independent Trainer 12-Jan-15 09.30am to 1.00pm Safeguarding the Unborn Baby Sue Taylor, Specialist Midwife 13-Jan-15 09.30am to 4.30pm Child Sexual Exploitation Barnardos SECOS 15-Jan-15 09.30am to 1.00pm Suicide and Self Harm Rod Morris, Mental Health Nurse (Self Harm) 16-Jan-15 09.30am to 12.30pm FGM, FM and HBV Noreen Riaz, the HALO Project 19-Jan-15 09.30am to 4.30pm Domestic Abuse – General Middlesbrough Education, Leanne Prest, Domestic Overview Violence Reduction Worker, Middlesbrough and Early Help Lead, Redcar and Cleveland 20-Jan-15 09.30am to 12.30pm E-safety Simon Finch, Northern Grid 21-Jan-15 9.30am to 1.00pm Physical Abuse Sarah Stansmore, Nurse Trainer - South Tees NHS Trust and Mary Griksaitis, Child Protection Officer for Education, Middlesbrough 22-Jan-15 9.30am to 4.30pm Motivational Approaches for Liz Coleman, Highbury Training Services Working with Difficult to Engage Families 23-Jan-15 09.30am to 4.30pm Level 3 Core Wendy Murdoch, Skills for Safeguarding 27-Jan-15 09.30am to 12.30pm Safeguarding Update Wendy Murdoch, Skills for Safeguarding

28-Jan-15 09.30am to 12.30pm Bereavement Awareness Child Bereavement UK and 1.30pm to 4.30pm 30-Jan-15 09.30am to 1.00pm Fabricated and Induced Illness Safeguarding Children Trainers, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Further dates to be confirmed and these will be included in future versions of the brochure. Look out for updates at:

RCLSCB E-Mail Bulletin –January 2015 Page 3 http://www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/safeguarding or for more information on training please contact Denise Skillcorn LSCB Training Support and Development Officer: Phone: 01642 304500 Ext: 7821 [email protected]

E-Learning: For free e-learning for parents’ on Child Sexual Exploitation visit: www.safeguardingchildrenea.co.uk/keep-them-safe

The Home Office has launched a free online training package dealing with female genital mutilation (FGM), developed with Virtual College. The aim of the training is to provide an overview of FGM and professionals’ responsibilities in FGM cases. Follow the link below, enter a few details including email address and where you work, and get started. Home Office FGM e-learning

REGIONAL NEWS The MAPPA annual report 2013-2014, attached, details how the agencies involved in the MAPPA processes works in practice.

MAPPA Annual Report.pdf

Safe Network Safe Network is pleased to invite voluntary and community sector (VCS) colleagues and key statutory partners to the Middlesbrough FREE Regional network meeting on the 19th March 10am – 1pm; see attached flyer for more details.

safe-network-spring network-meetings-2014-new nspcc logo.pdf

RCLSCB E-Mail Bulletin –January 2015 Page 4 NATIONAL NEWS On Friday 9 January, NSPCC launched a public education campaign, called Share Aware, to help parents keep their children safe online. The campaign is aimed at parents and carers of children aged 8-12 – the age at which they start doing more online, become more independent and use a greater range of devices. The campaign aims to encourage parents and carers to understand online safety and to have conversations with their children about keeping safe. The Share Aware campaign aims to give parents the tools to feel confident to have these conversations. The campaign directs parents to a range of new resources, including Net Aware, a simple NSPCC guide to the social networks, sites and apps children use – as rated by parents and young people themselves. We will be providing information on this guide at the time of the launch.

There is also a downloadable guide and a hard copy booklet for parents, containing top tips for keeping your child safe online, as well conversation starters to help parents have conversations with their children. All these resources will be available on the Share Aware page from on the NSPCC website.

The UK Safer Internet has published this special bulletin for all Local Safeguarding Children Boards due to the unprecedented online threats posed to children across the UK from radicalisation and extremis; see attached.

Online Safety - LSCB bulletin - Radicalisation.pdf

SERIOUS CASE REVIEWS

Further information: First annual report: national panel of independent experts on serious case reviews (PDF) Case reviews added – December 2014

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