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Working together to safeguard children School Improvement Liverpool Safeguarding Briefings Autumn 2012 Phil Cooper Senior School Improvement Officer 0151 233 4020 07921942091 [email protected]

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Working together to safeguard children

School Improvement Liverpool Safeguarding

BriefingsAutumn 2012

Phil CooperSenior School Improvement Officer0151 233 [email protected]

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Timings

9am-12pm Break 10.30-10.45am

or

1pm-4pm Break 2.30-2.45am

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Agenda

• Vetting and Barring Update• Key National Guidance • Preparing for Ofsted Inspection – ‘Safety

and Behaviour’• Forced Marriage Update• Domestic Violence- Participating in a Multi-

Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC)

• Learning and embedding messages from Serious Case Reviews

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• Draft proposed ‘Code of Conduct’ for schools

• New Model Child Protection Policy• Exemplar summary school flowchart• Expected practice for making a referral,

record keeping• Preparing for and attending Case

Conferences• Safer Schools Checklist• Frequently asked questions

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Your CD Rom/Memory Stick contains:

• An electronic copy of the today’straining booklet

• A copy of today’s powerpoints• Flyers for other key training opportunities• Copies of key national and local guidance• A model Child Protection Policy and a

model E-safety Policy• Other key Resources e.g. referral forms

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ActivityReview: The Exemplar Child Protection Policy

P8 Making and Managing ReferralsP9 Record keeping and transferring recordsp29/30 Child protection coordinators flow chartp31 Summary CP Flowchartp32 Escalating Concernsp33-38 School templates including a report to governors and record keeping auditing toolp40 Key contactsp39 Managing allegations against staff

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Managing Safeguarding Concerns A Continuum of assessment and

need

Services for all children and families

Services for children and families with identified needs

Services for families with complex needs

Services

for childrenat

high risk

SPECIALIST

TARGETED

UNIVERSAL Level 1

Level 2

Level 3a/3b

Level 4

CAF

S17/CAF

S47

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Activity

Making a multi agency referral drawing upon the:

LSCB Threshold Aid to Assessment Guidance p45 CP policy

Safeguarding Scenarios P31 Training Booklet

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Activity

Discuss and Review:

Training Booklet

Preparation of Case Conferences p32

Question to consider asking at Case Conference p33

Child Protection Case conference Report p34

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Key training events:

• New to the role of Child Protection Coordinator 15th January 2013 and repeated 11th June 2013*

• Bullying Intervention Training*9th October 2012

• School Emergency Planning Event*Tuesday 30th October and Tuesday 13th November 2012

*Book via training e-portal on Ednet

• Independent Safeguarding Authority and LSCB event11th October and 12th October 2012 ring LSCB on O151 233 1151

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Key National Guidance

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Guidance from this September:

• Inspecting Safeguarding (Ofsted, 2012)• Inspecting e-safety (Ofsted, 2012)• DFE and ACPO Drug Advice to Schools

2012• No Place for bullying (Ofsted, 2012)• Improving attendance at schools (DFE, 2012)• The New Framework for School Inspection

(Ofsted, 2012)• School Inspection Handbook (Ofsted, 2012)

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Recent Guidance:

• Safeguarding in Schools: Best Practice (Ofsted 2011)

• Ensuring Good Behaviour in Schools (DFE 2011

• Preventing and Tackling Bullying (DFE 2011

• Screening, Searching and Confiscation (DFE 2012

• Dealing with allegations of abuse against teachers and other staff (DFE 2012)

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Vetting and Barring ProposalsProtection of Freedoms Act 2012

Major changes in September 2012

New definition of regulated activity.

Minimum age (16) at which someone can apply for a CRB check.

More rigorous ‘relevancy’ test for when the police release

information held locally on an enhanced CRB check.

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New Regulated Activity definition relating to children:

The new definition of regulated activity relating to children comprises only:

(i) Unsupervised activities: teach, train, instruct, care for or supervise children, or provide advice/guidance on well-being, or drive a vehicle only for children;

(i) (ii) Work for a limited range of establishments (‘specified places’), with opportunity for contact: for example, schools, children’s homes, childcare premises. Not work by supervised volunteers;

Work under (i) or (ii) is regulated activity only if done regularly.

The DFE are providing statutory guidance about supervision of activity

which would be regulated activity if unsupervised.

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‘Inspecting Safeguarding –

Briefing for section 5 inspectors’

September 2012

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Safeguarding is no longer a limiting judgement for schools

• Ofsted will consider ‘Behaviour and safety’ over time

• School leaders should be clear about their statutory responsibilities and go beyond them (including training and recruitment)

• Scrutiny by governors is effective

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What might lead to the school committing a criminal offence?

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Since 12 October 2009, it has been a criminal offencefor employers to:

• Employ someone in a regulated whom they know to have been barred

• not refer to the Independent Safeguarding Authority (or its successor organisation, the Disclosure Barring Service – DBS) details of anyone who is permanently removed from regulated activity (or who leaves while under investigation) for allegedly causing harm or posing a risk of harm

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Do governors and supervised volunteers need

CRBs?

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‘The Act has removed the requirement for schools to carry out a CRB check on governors simply because of their office, and it has removed the requirement to routinely carry out CRB checks on all volunteers, even where they regularly work with children. Instead, the Act introduces the concept of supervision of volunteers. Where a school is satisfied that it can provide an adequate level of supervision by a suitably checked person, for example someone who is defined as working in regulated activity, it is not required to check the volunteer.’

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Do we need to ask to see the CRBs of visiting staff?

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‘Visiting staff who do not have unsupervised regular access to children and young people – such as initial teacher education mentors and tutors – are not eligible for a CRB check. The normal risk assessment that applies to all visitors is sufficient’

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‘Staff such as educational psychologists, supply teachers, trainee teachers, nurses, sports coaches and inspectors should be CRB checked by their 'providing' organisation, for example the supply agency, the university, primary care trust, local authority, and so on.

It is sufficient, for schools and colleges to seek written confirmation that appropriate checks, including CRB checks, have been carried out (most commonly on appointment) and by whom (most commonly the relevant human resources department), and to confirm the identify of these visitors. Written confirmation may take the form of a public statement on the providing organisation’s website, a practice adopted by Ofsted.’

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Can CRBs be used for more than one job?

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‘Part-time staff may use the same CRB check for two or more posts as long as they are at a similar level and the school/college have satisfied themselves about their veracity and appropriateness. This level of ‘portability’ is currently available to employers at their own risk.’

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Do we always need to apply for a new CRB when we appoint

someone from another school or outside the

Local Authority?

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‘If an employee has been CRB checked, there is no statutory requirement that another CRB check is carried out before taking up a job in a different school or even in a different local authority, provided they have continuous service and the check is at the correct level for the new post.

The school or local authority should ask for evidence, from the previous school or local authority, that the check was undertaken. Some schools and local authorities are reluctant to accept transferring staff without requesting a fresh CRB disclosure certificate because they believe that Ofsted would be critical of such arrangements. Inspectors should avoid giving any impression that Ofsted considers it good practice to request fresh CRB disclosure certificates routinely whenever a member of staff is recruited directly from another school without a break in service. Schools should be encouraged to risk assess each case individually and be prepared to demonstrate the basis for their decisions.’

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What’s Ofsted’s view on 3 yearly CRB checks?

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‘The ‘three year rolling programme’ for all staff is a myth. There has never been a requirement for a rolling programme of three-yearly checks for staff who have unbroken service (that is, no break of three months or more). The only reference to three-year checks in Safeguarding children and safer recruitment in education is in appendix 11, where it is recommended for agency staff. Ofsted and the Department for Education have repeatedly pointed out that such routine checks for staff directly employed by a school or college are not required. Ofsted will consider such routine re-checks to be excessive, as they go beyond what the law requires or the Government recommends. They will not be considered evidence of good practice, and may be considered to represent a poor use of resources.’

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I’ve heard that checks can soon be undertaken online is this true?

When and how will this happen?

What’s Ofsted’s view of this?

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‘A new online registration service is being introduced by the Disclosure Barring Service in late Spring 2013 that will facilitate portability of CRB checks for individuals who choose to register. By providing a new employer with an existing disclosure certificate and their online registration number, prospective employees will be able to use the same certificate for any post of a similar nature. The prospective employer will be able to log on to the service and check whether there has been a change to the printed certificate. If there has been a change, the employer will have to decide whether or not they wish to apply for a new certificate in order to show the updated details. Although this service is not yet in place, schools may be aware of the development and may wish to discuss it with inspectors. ‘

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Managing the Ofsted inspection process:

What will Ofsted ask to see at the start of the inspection?

How can I best prepare?

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Behaviour and SafetyInspectors will ask for at the

start of the inspection:

•Single Central Register•All logs that record exclusions, pupils taken off roll, incidents of poor behaviour, racist incidents and incidents of bullying•Details of the school’s use of Alternative Provision•Up to date attendance information (PA, unauthorised, missing from education)

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Leadership and ManagementInspectors will ask for at the start

of the inspection:

• A summary SEF (if not already shared)• The current School Improvement Plan• Records of the monitoring of teaching• Anonymised information about the school’s performance

management arrangements including outcomes and salary progression

• Documented evidence of the work of the governors and their impact

• Reports of any external evaluations of the school• School timetable and timings, staff lists, any planned

interruptions to the timetable

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School Improvement Liverpool

Self Evaluation Booklet

andOfsted Survival Guide

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• How has the school monitored the effectiveness of key strategies to improve attendance, punctuality, behaviour and attitudes to learning?

 • How does the school analyse and act upon a range of behaviour data?

•  How does the curriculum and enrichment opportunities promote improvements in pupils’ behaviour and safety and in particular their Social Moral Spiritual Cultural development?

• How effective has the school’s professional development programme and the development of its policies and procedures been in improving pupils’ behaviour and safety in lessons and around the school?

• How does the school quality assure and audit its safeguarding arrangements?

• How has the school responded to all stakeholders views in respect of behaviour and safety?

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Activity

Review:

‘Behaviour and Safety’ – Ofsted Evidence Checklist

P24 of Training Booklet

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‘Inspecting e-safety

Briefing for section 5 inspectors’

September 2012

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How will this document help me?

• Shares what outstanding practice looks like.

• Makes clear recommendations for all schools

• Indicates what inadequate practice looks like.

• Provides examples of questions that Ofsted might ask pupils, staff and school leaders.

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The report recommended that schools:

• audit the training needs of all staff

• support the understanding of e-safety in the community (families, partners and other providers)

• use pupils’ and families’ views more often to develop e-safety strategies

• manage the transition from locked down systems to more managed systems to help pupils understand how to manage risk

• provide an age related e-safety curriculum that promotes responsible use

• systematically review and develop policy and practice

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DFE and ACPO Drug Advice to Schools 2012 advice includes:

• Schools are not required to inform parents before a search takes place or to seek their consent to search their child.

• There is no legal requirement to make or keep a record of a search, but is advisable in order to respond to any future complaint by a pupil or parent.

• Schools would normally inform the individual pupil’s parents or guardians where alcohol, illegal drugs or potentially harmful substances are found, though there is no legal requirement to do so.

• Complaints about searching should be dealt with through the normal school complaints procedure.

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Learning lessons fromSerious Case Reviews

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Somerset SCR 2010A "lamentable failure" by school management

Nigel Leat a teacher admitted 36 sexual offences.

He was jailed indefinitely.

Police also found more than 30,000 indecent photographs on memory sticks some from children in the school he worked.

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At least 30 incidents (only 11 were reported) of inappropriate or unprofessional conduct involving him, which should have been viewed

as suspicious including inappropriate lesson content, through over

familiaritywith children to indecent touching.

The following are some examples of concerns raised by staff and parents:

• taking photographs of children using his mobile phone.

• a teacher found inappropriate images of a girl posing with him on his

school camera.

• a teacher walked through his classroom to find him getting changed for PE in his class. The classroom was used as a thoroughfare by staff and pupils.

• He was wearing his underpants and a Tshirt.

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Activity

Review

Draft proposed model Code of Conduct

Training Booklet p52

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Victoria Climbié Lauren Wright

Baby Peter Connolly

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Khyra Ishaq died May 2008 aged 7

The school was not ‘properly heard’ by social services.

The school didn’t liaise with schools attended by other siblings.

Serious Case Review, 2010

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What went wrong?• Clear evidence of the child stealing food was not

given appropriate consideration by social services.

• The child’s views were not sought and there was too much focus on the rights of the adults.

• There was a lack of monitoring of the mother’s decision to educate Khyra at home.

• A complaint raised by mother created additional confusion and impacted upon planning and decision making.

• The designate child protection co-ordinator did not liaise with other schools attended by her siblings.

• There was poor assessment and a lack of inter-agency communication.

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Tia Rigg murdered aged 12 in 2011

The SCR report found "a number of serious failings in the management of

this case".

They included:• an "over optimistic and unrealistic perception" of her

mother’s capacity to care for the children• allowing the children to remain with their mother 18 months

before Tia's death, despite domestic violence and suicide attempts by her mother

• "numerous examples" where information should have been shared between agencies

• a failure to appreciate the "growing chaos" within the family• legal proceedings should have been considered to safeguard

Tia and her siblings• information about Tia's mother was not properly analysed

to give an understanding of the risks to her children

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Tyler Whelan murdered aged 5 in 2011

• "Overall, concerns and incidents were seen in isolation, with minimal attempts to link concerning patterns of injuries, to enquire in more detail about their cause and nature, and to gain a collective view of family life,"

• “No satisfactory link was made with domestic violence and the risk to children in the family.”

• The report found there were a "number of occasions when concerns were raised" about Tyler's care.

• But it was "concerning that no professional ever recorded seeing him in the family home".

• It said people involved in the care of Tyler had displayed a "lack of professional curiosity" but stated that criticism did not only apply to social workers.

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1. Ensure actions take place

2. Use all sources of information

3. Carry out assessments effectively

4. Implement effective multi agency working

5. Value challenge, supervision and scrutiny

Five key messages from Ofsted in respect of SCR (2010)

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There are five main messages with regard to the voice of the child.In too many cases:

1. the child was not seen frequently enough by the professionals involved, or was not asked about their views and feelings

2. agencies did not listen to adults who tried to speak on behalf of the child and who had important information to contribute

3. parents and carers prevented professionals from seeing and listening to the child

4. practitioners focused too much on the needs of the parents, especially on vulnerable parents, and overlooked the implications for the child

5. agencies did not interpret their findings well enough to protect the child.

Key findings by Ofsted (2011)

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Implementing Local Serious Case Review Recommendations

Activity:

Does your school meet the criteria?

Training Booklet p3-9

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Activity

Discuss and share case studies:

National Serious Case Reviews

Training Booklet p12 Case Study 3

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Activity

Review the Safer School Checklist

Training booklet p23

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Activity

Discuss Frequently asked questions

Training Booklet p42

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Activity

Review:

Subsidiary Guidance Ofsted , 2012 (Extract)p20

Safeguarding in Schools: Best Practice,Ofsted 2011 (Extract) p24

Both in the Exemplar Child Protection Policy