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Safeguarding Children in Education Settings. Headteachers Conference 22 nd October 2012 Christine Cassell Independent Chair Derby Safeguarding Children Board. Agenda. Opening Presentation Geese Theatre CSE Education Hub Closing statement. Derby Safeguarding Children Board. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Derby Safeguarding Children Board
Safeguarding Children in Safeguarding Children in Education SettingsEducation Settings
Headteachers Conference22nd October 2012
Christine CassellIndependent Chair
Derby Safeguarding Children Board
Derby Safeguarding Children BoardAgenda
• Opening Presentation
• Geese Theatre
• CSE
• Education Hub
• Closing statement
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Derby Safeguarding Children Board
Objectives of LSCBs:
• To co-ordinate what is done by each person or body represented on the Board for the purposes of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in the area, and
• To ensure the effectiveness of what is done by each such person or body for those purposes
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Derby Safeguarding Children BoardWho is on the Board?
• Local Authority• Police• Local Probation Trust• Youth Offending Team• NHS Commissioning Board and Clinical
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Derby Schools’ representatives
• Primary:
Simon Emsley, Headteacher, Lakeside Community Primary School
• Secondary:
Liz Coffey, Principal, Landau Forte College
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Board Improvements 2011-12
Strengthening the Board:
• Sub groups for specific functions report to the Board
• Systematic programme of audit – single and multi-agency
• Evaluation of training
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Evidence from Audit and Monitoring 2011-12
Safeguarding across the city:
• Much good practice
• Some families could have been helped earlier – joint challenge from DSCB and Children, Families & Learners Board
• Early evidence that Multi-agency Teams are getting help to families earlier
• Domestic Violence Action Plan for the city now in place
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Derby Safeguarding Children BoardPriorities for 2012-13
Developing the way agencies work together:
• Early intervention
• Domestic violence
Embedding and auditing practice:
• Child Sexual Exploitation
• Increasing the rigour of DSCB activity
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Safeguarding is everybody’s business
Schools are critical
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The critical role of schools
See children every day:
• In the best position to look, listen, notice
• Key players in early support
• Source of security and continuity
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What makes children safe?
• Leadership
• People – don’t hide behind procedures
• Don’t make assumptions
• Be sensible about risk and take responsibility
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Child Sexual ExploitationChild Sexual Exploitation (CSE) (CSE)
Mandy MacDonald Child Protection Manager
[email protected] 717806
Derby Safeguarding Children BoardChild Sexual Exploitation
• Systematic abuse of children and young people• Includes boys and girls• The perpetrators are responsible for the abuse• Constrained choices can also be a factor
MacDonald, M. (2005)
Derby Safeguarding Children BoardRisk Factors
• No one risk factor
• Risk factors are often interdependent
• Risk factors can be divided into individual, family and social
• Social risk factors are very broad and include poverty, community, neighbourhood, school, and peers among others
• The key to predication/prevention is an accumulation of risk factors
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CSE: The Extent of the Problem in Derby
Referral to the CSE Strategy
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Derby Safeguarding Children BoardReferrals & Ongoing Work
• 217 referrals in one year• 105 appropriate for the CSE strategy• 81 young people currently being reviewed• Only 6 evidenced cases
The vast majority of young people are:
AT RISK OF CSE - NOT SEXUALLY EXPOITED
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The involvement of many young people in anti social behaviour brought them into contact with the Police
Their behaviour was infrequently recognised as the symptomatic of sexual exploitation
CONSENT COERCION
Derby Safeguarding Children BoardYoung People’s Stories
• “He said he would bash up my face and no one would want me” (age 15)
• “I was sexually abused by my dad so it makes no difference if I do it with strangers” (age 12)
• “I couldn’t tell my family it would bring such shame on them”
• “If I tell you would you tell my mum?” (age 13)
• “They have all the power, you don’t have any choice” (age 15)
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Sex Offender – Victim Statistics
• 70% of child sex offenders have between 1 and 9 victims
• At least 20% have 10 to 40 victims
• Serial child sex offenders may have and many as 400 victims in a lifetime
Elliott, M., Browne, K., & Kilcoyne, J. (1995)
Derby Safeguarding Children BoardThe Derby Action Plan
Prevention – Protection – Prosecution
PARTICIPATION
Not victim led but as active agents(Article 9 requires that we encourage the participation of
children, according to their evolving capacity)
Derby Safeguarding Children BoardDon’t
• Rely on punishment to change behaviour
• Think that locking young people up will solve the problem
• Underestimate the impact of threats, coercion or excitement on young people
• Ignore community resources such as schools, residential centres etc
• Ignore the social context of sexualisation, socialisation, aggression - the role of the media, electronic gaming, and the internet
Derby Safeguarding Children BoardUseful Tools & Resources
• CSE Champions and Referrals• Children Abused through Sexual Exploitation
Procedures • Children Abused through Sexual Exploitation: Risk
Assessment Toolkit• Information leaflets for Young People and Parents
& Carers about attending a sexual exploitation meeting
• Derby CSE Strategy • Sources of local and national support/information
http://www.derbyscb.org.uk/scb7.html
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DSCB – Education Hub
Derby Safeguarding Children BoardEducation Hub
• Policies and Procedures– 39 Steps– Child Protection Policy Pro Forma
• Training, Learning and Development– Identify training pathways for designated child
protection leads and Headteachers– Enable schools to Q A independent training
providers
Derby Safeguarding Children BoardQuality Assurance
• Serious Case Reviews
• Pro forma audit tools for schools and education settings
• Surveys and audit work across the education sector
• Linked to the priorities and outcomes: Early Intervention and Domestic Violence
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Outcomes emerging in school
• Diagnosis by Community Paediatricians with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder as a marker for emotional well being
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Definite AutisticSpectrum Disorder
Downs Syndrome
Derby Safeguarding Children BoardReadiness for School
• "Derby performs worse than England, the East Midlands and Family group of LAs in each of the 13 assessments, and consequently six areas of learning.
• The most common developmental issues for children starting school in Derby are: the inability to use cutlery (24%); and to dress/undress independently (22%).
• Derby is just one of 39 LAs in England where the gap, and therefore inequality of achievement between the lowest performing 20% in the area and the average for the area, has widened since 2010." Profile Census (EYFS 2011)
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Domestic Violence Outcome Measures • The IQ scores of children exposed to domestic abuse
during the first two years is, on average, 7.25 points lower than those who were not exposed.
• 63% of children (experiencing DV) showed more emotional or behavioural problems than the average child (Beyond Violence; Breaking cycles of domestic abuse – CSJ July 2012)
Comparing 2010/11 and 2011/12 there has been in Derby:• An decrease in number of DV incidents,• An increase in the number of recorded DV crimes• Whilst there was a decline in overall recorded crime, the
proportion of all crime that is Domestic Violence has increased
Derby Safeguarding Children BoardBullying
• Young people who reported being bullied had lower Key Stage 4 scores than other young people.
• Children in England who reported being bullied did15% worse at GCSE and were twice as likely to be NEET at aged 16.(EHRC 2010)
• 227 - 10 and 11 year olds showed that 1 in 5 had been cyberbullied in the past 12 months. 22% did not know how to protect themselves online, and 18% had been cyberbullied while at home (Anti Bullying Alliance 2009)
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Supporting safeguarding arrangements• How do we quality assure and support schools to
know whether it is safer for children now in 2012?
Inspection regime from September 2012• “pupils’ behaviour towards, and respect for, other
young people and adults, and their freedom from bullying, harassment, and discrimination
• whether pupils feel safe and their ability to assess and manage risk appropriately and to keep themselves safe”
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Locality
Early Intervention and Integrated Safeguarding
Derby Safeguarding Children BoardWhat works well
• Secondary school meeting
• Team Around Primary School
• Single Point of Access of Clerk
• CAF Advisers
• Weekly VCM
• Good relationships – honest, listen, challenge, respect and learn
Derby Safeguarding Children BoardWhat next
• Locality Forums
• Family Change
• Priority Families
• Embedding early intervention
• Evidence based practice
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Allegations against staff, carers & volunteers
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Allegations against staff, carers & volunteers• Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Children
Procedures, Section 11
• The role of the LADO (Local Authority Designated Officer)– Provide advice and guidance– Management and oversight of individual cases – Liaise with police and other agencies – Monitor progress of cases
• You can contact the LADO on 01332 717818
Derby Safeguarding Children BoardLADO referrals (Schools only)
38%
27%
35%Physical
Sexual
InappropriateBehaviour
Resolutions 2011 - 2012
No case to answer /retracted
1
Malicious referral 1
Unsubstantiated 10
Internal action 10
Disciplinary 3
Dismissed / de-registered
1
Prosecution 2
Total resolved 28
Type of referral 2011 - 2012
Derby Safeguarding Children BoardManaging Allegations
Training
• Free managing allegations ½ day training is available via DSCB joint training programme www.derbyscb.org.uk
• Available dates: 26.11.2012, 17.01.2013 and 25.02.2013. Further dates will be available after Easter 2013