London Regional Safeguarding Advisers

Kathy Bundred, Kay Bell and Vivien Lines have been in post since April 2010 as Regional Safeguarding Advisers for the London Safeguarding Children Board.  Vivien Lines has been seconded full-time to London Borough of Newham.  Kathy Bundred has been seconded full-time recently to Havering.  Please follow the link below for more details on the advisers' and examples of their work: 

  London Regional Safeguarding Advisers - March 2011 

The aim of this two year project is to improve the safety of children in London by strengthening partnership arrangements across the capital as well as to offer advice and support to individual London boroughs on safeguarding as needed.  

Much of the advisers' time is spent working with boroughs and partners across London providing support and assistance with safeguarding issues and service developments. Please see the note below for more details on this support work, and a template for boroughs to use when requesting assistance from an adviser: 

  London RSAs - criteria and template for support bids 

The advisers have written up case studies for each of their support projects with local authorities. 

At the conclusion of each project, the adviser will work with the borough to complete an end of project case study to be shared online. Follow the links below to download case studies from the projects completed to date, which are available in a collated report and as individual downloads:

•      London Regional Safeguarding Advisers – collated case studies

•      Harrow (August – October 2010) 
             Improving quality assurance arrangements

•      Haringey (July – December 2010) 
             Strengthening child protection services

•      Bexley (August and December 2010)                      
             Service reviews – referral and assessment / fostering and adoption

•      Haringey (July 2010 – Feb 2011) 
             Promoting First Response / embedding Family Intervention
             Projects

•      Lambeth (October 2010 – January 2011) 
             Reviewing services for disabled children and young people

•      Kensington and Chelsea (April 2010 – March 2011) 
             Reviewing parental mental health services

•      Croydon (January – March 2011) 
             Auditing care plans of children in care / reviewing partnership work

•      Barking and Dagenham (ongoing host borough arrangement) 

The latest workplan and update reports on the work of the advisers are also available via the links below: 

  London RSAs - workplan
  London RSAs - report to steering group (June 2010 part one)
  London RSAs - report to steering group (June 2010 Part two)
  London RSAs - report to steering group (Feb 2011)

  An overview of the Signs of Safety materials 

Further details on the ongoing work of the advisers will be published on these pages throughout the duration of the project