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Safeguarding and The Voluntary Sector

Safeguarding and The Voluntary Sector. A Presentation for the Voluntary Sector Forum. Sally Mortimore Manager, Medway Safeguarding Children Board. What is the Medway Safeguarding Children Board (MSCB)?. LSCBs are statutory partnerships made up of key local agencies with 2 key objectives:

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Safeguarding and The Voluntary Sector

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  1. Safeguarding and The Voluntary Sector A Presentation for the Voluntary Sector Forum Sally Mortimore Manager, Medway Safeguarding Children Board

  2. What is the Medway Safeguarding Children Board (MSCB)? • LSCBs are statutory partnerships made up of key local agencies with 2 key objectives: • To co-ordinate local work to safeguard and promote the welfare of children • To ensure the effectiveness of that work • How? • Policies and procedures • Participating in planning services • Communicating and raising awareness • Monitoring and evaluating effectiveness • Serious Case Reviews • Ensuring a co-ordinated response to unexpected child deaths • Collating and analysing information about child deaths

  3. Current Priorities • Thresholds • CP responsibilities • Domestic abuse • Trafficking • CSE • e-safety • Child focus in interventions • Quality Assurance and Outcomes – what difference did we make?

  4. Children Act 2004 S11 8 key standards: 1. senior management commitment 2. a clear statement of the agency’s responsibilities 3. a clear line of accountability 4. service development that takes account of the need to safeguard is informed by the views of children and families; 5. staff training 6. safe recruitment 7. effective inter-agency working 8. effective information sharing.

  5. Everybody’s responsibility • “The support and protection of children cannot be achieved by a single agency…Every service has to play its part. All staff must have placed upon them the clear expectation that their primary responsibility is to the child and his or her family” • Lord Laming in the Victoria Climbie Inquiry Report, Paragraphs 17.92 and 17.93

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