1 / 10

Child Protection in HCC, trends 2010/1

Child Protection in HCC, trends 2010/1. Sue Williams Operations Director, Safeguarding. Referrals to social care 2010/11. Average referrals per month 740 Initial assessments per month 5-700 Core assessments per month 300 S47s per month 140 New case conferences per month 40 children.

lynch
Download Presentation

Child Protection in HCC, trends 2010/1

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Child Protection in HCC, trends 2010/1 Sue Williams Operations Director, Safeguarding

  2. Referrals to social care 2010/11 • Average referrals per month 740 • Initial assessments per month 5-700 • Core assessments per month 300 • S47s per month 140 • New case conferences per month 40 children

  3. CP plan demographics

  4. Age Profile

  5. Categories of Abuse

  6. Length of Registration

  7. Issues • 60% children on plans for neglect • 60% care proceedings neglect • Neglect predominantly linked to parental MH, substance misuse, LDs • Identification- midwifery, health visitors, schools, partnership trust

  8. Actions on referral • File and info checks social care, health, police • Strategy meeting-single agency investigation or joint with police • Information gathering all agencies • Decision for initial case conference/legal planning meeting • Multi agency case conference/plan

  9. Working with children on a plan • Is the harm significant? • Are parents/carers co-operating? • Is the plan improving care of children? If not why not? Barriers? • Are parents attending appointments? • Role of core group between conferences • Should children’s circumstances be put before the Court?

  10. Step down from cp plan • CIN or CAF? • Which professional leads? • Support for LPs • Progress sustained, universal services • Progress sliding, targeted or specialist

More Related