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Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults What does this mean for Councillors in Northampton?

Learn about safeguarding children and vulnerable adults, roles of council members, policy context, and local position in Northampton. Understand abuse types, key responsibilities, council duties, and processes. Contact designated officers for more information.

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Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults What does this mean for Councillors in Northampton?

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  1. Safeguarding Children andVulnerable Adults What does this mean for Councillors in Northampton? 21 June 2012

  2. Objectives • Understand what is meant by safeguarding children and vulnerable adults within the wider context of promoting better outcomes • Understanding the safeguarding policy context • Identify key roles and responsibilities, including the role of council members • Identify the evidence councillors require to ensure the council is doing all it can to safeguard children and vulnerable adults • Gain an understanding of the local position

  3. Local Context

  4. What is safeguarding?Safeguarding is everyone’s business

  5. What is abuse? • Physical • Sexual • Psychological • Financial or material • Neglect and acts of omission • Discriminatory

  6. Key roles and responsibilities • Lead authority • Other agencies • Local Safeguarding Children Board • SOVA (Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Board) • Scrutiny • All Councillors

  7. Council’s duties and responsibilities • County Council has the lead responsibility for the protection of children, young people and vulnerable adults • District Councils have a duty to promote the well-being of children and young people and to cooperate with the County Council in delivering its safeguarding duties • District Councils are responsible for establishing appropriate policies and procedures to ensure that the Council’s activities promote the safety and wellbeing of children, young people and vulnerable adults, e.g. safe recruitment policies, safe working practice

  8. All Councillors • Residents of Northampton • Local authority members will need to be aware of issues relating to the protection of children and vulnerable adults at a strategic level as well as those relating to cases of institutional and individual abuse.

  9. The process (and what to expect) • Referral • 0300 126 1000 • Inter-agency working • Outcomes

  10. Fran Rodgers Ext 7595 Catherine Wilson Ext 7377 Tim Ansell Ext 8756 Nicci Marzec Ext 7431 Ian Swift Ext 7225 Marion Goodman Ext 8273 Debbie Ferguson Ext 8731 James Ogle Ext 8950 Adam Evans Ext 8319 Judy Goodman Ext 7409 Lead and Designated Safeguarding OfficersOrganisational Lead and Board Representative Lesley Wearing, Director of Housing Policy development and implementation Silvina Katz, Corporate Policy and Consultation Manager Ext 7573

  11. More Information • More information and NBC Safeguarding Action Plan for 2012/13 available on NBC website: www.northampton.gov.uk/safeguarding • Training information available from: • www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/traininganddevelopment • Links to webpages for further information on safeguarding: • Adults: • http://www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/en/councilservices/social-care/safeguarding/pages/default.aspx • Children: • http://www.lscbnorthamptonshire.org.uk/

  12. What happens next…

  13. Questions & Answers

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