Safeguarding London's Children conference - papers online
Safeguarding children whose parents have mental health problems or misuse substances
All presentations and related papers from the London Board's annual safeguarding London's children conference (held on Friday December 12th 2008) are now available online at http://www.londonscb.gov.uk/diary/conference/.
Safeguarding children affected by gang activity and/or serious youth violence - consultation launched
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, and will be available for comments and feedback until Friday 27th Feburary 2009. Please follow the link below to download the consultation draft:
Safeguarding children affected by gang activity and/or serious youth violence - draft for consultation
Safeguarding children affected by gang activity and/or serious youth violence - summary powerpoint
This is issued as an open consultation, so please feel free to email any comments or suggestions for improvement to ian.dean@londoncouncils.gov.uk - we are also happy to accept track changes if this is your preferred method of feedback.
If you would like any additional information about the procedure or the consultation, please contact Ian Dean on 020 7934 9714.
October Child Sexual Abuse seminar - presentations online
All presentations and handouts from October's child sexual abuse seminar are now available to download via the links below:
Welcome and introduction (Tink Palmer)
An exemplar guidance flow diagram (Dr PWD Meerstadt)
Usual and less usual presentations of CSA (Dr Julia Hale)
September Child Sexual Abuse seminar - presentation online
Stephen Smallbone's presentation from September's child sexual abuse seminar is now available to download from the link below:
Preventing Child Sexual Abuse: Evidence, theory, policy and practice (Stephen Smallbone)
We anticipate posting a full report of the seminar online shortly - watch this space for details.
Child sexual abuse conference - papers now available
The London Safeguarding Children Board's 2008 summer conference, which focussed on safeguarding children at risk of sexual abuse, took place at the British Library on Wednesday June 18th. With presentations that highlighted the latest developments and emerging good practice from both the UK and abroad, the event was a great success and a number of presentations and supporting material are now available to download from the link below:
It is anticipated that additional papers will be made available via this link shortly, so watch this space for updates!
LSCB self-assessment governance tool and effective practice case studies now available to download
A voluntary Challenge and Improvement Tool for LSCBs is now available to download from http://www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/socialcare/safeguarding/lscb/, together with two chapters of material provided by LSCBs as examples of their effective local practice.
The Challenge and Improvement Tool focuses on effective governance as a starting point for establishing strong relationships, clear accountability and transparency of operation and purpose. LSCBs may wish to adapt the tool to their specific context or stage of development.
The first chapter of effective practice exemplars consists of 13 case studies covering areas highlighted in Local Safeguarding Children Boards: A Review of Progress (June 2007), ranging from addressing local governance, to engaging effectively with partners, to developing local procedures. The second set of 8 case studies focus on two areas: how the child protection system can intervene to safeguard children and young people at risk of becoming involved in gang activity; and how local services identify and safeguard sexually exploited young people.
Competence Matters - a multi agency safeguarding children training framework for London
Competence Matters offers a framework for a London-wide comprehensive safeguarding children training programme. Used to inform local Safeguarding training strategies, it will provide a framework for a programme based on each London borough’s individual training needs. Please follow the link below to download a copy:
Competence Matters - a multi agency safeguarding children training framework for London
This document is intended to assist Children’s Trusts and/or Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) Training Officers and Sub-Committees with the planning, commissioning and delivery of a comprehensive safeguarding children training programme. LSCB partners, and those with responsibility for staff learning and development within LSCB member agencies will also need to be familiar with this framework.
It is not intended that Children’s Trusts or LSCBs should attempt to adopt everything within this document – rather, local areas should use this as a framework around which to base their own training programmes.
