Contents: 2010 Edition

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Working Together to Safeguard Children: Executive Summary
	Introduction
	Part 1: Statutory guidance
	Part 2: Non-statutory practice guidance
Preface
	Introduction
	Purpose of the document and who should read it
	Content of this guidance
	Other related guidance
	Status of the document as statutory guidance
	When does the guidance apply?
Part 1: Statutory Guidance
Chapter 1 – Introduction: working together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and families
	Supporting children and families	Paragraph(s)	1.1 - 1.3
	Parenting, family life and services		1.4 - 1.6
	Lord Laming’s progress report		1.7 - 1.8
	The Government’s response		1.9
	An integrated approach		1.10 - 1.11
	A shared responsibility		1.12 - 1.14
	The child in focus		1.15 - 1.18
	Key definitions		1.19 - 1.36
Chapter 2 – Roles and responsibilities
	Introduction	Paragraph(s)	2.1
	The statutory framework within which organisations operate		2.2 - 2.10
	Infrastructure and governance to deliver safeguarding responsibilities		2.11
	Information sharing		2.12 - 2.14
	ContactPoint		2.15
	Common Assessment Framework (CAF)		2.16 - 2.17
	Local authorities that are children’s services authorities		2.18 - 2.27
	Other local authority roles		2.28 - 2.38
	Health services		2.39 - 2.41
	Health organisations		2.42 - 2.77
	Roles of different health services		2.78 - 2.107
	Health professionals		2.108 - 2.122
	Criminal justice organisations		2.123 - 2.154
	Schools and further education institutions		2.155 - 2.165
	Early years services		2.166 - 2.171
	Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass)		2.172 - 2.175
	The armed services		2.176 - 2.182
	The voluntary and private sectors		2.183 - 2.188
	Faith communities		2.189 - 2.193
Chapter 3 – Local Safeguarding Children Boards
	LSCB role	Paragraph(s)	3.3 - 3.6
	Scope of the LSCB		3.7 - 3.11
	LSCB functions		3.12 - 3.25
	Other policies and procedures		3.26 - 3.49
	LSCB governance and operational arrangements		3.50 - 3.61
	Membership of an LSCB		3.62 - 3.112
Chapter 4 – Training, development and supervision for inter-agency working
	Introduction and definitions	Paragraph(s)	4.1 - 4.3
	Purpose		4.4
	Roles and responsibilities		4.5 - 4.23
	Content, audiences and values		4.24 - 4.36
	Planning, organisation, delivery and evaluation		4.37 - 4.47
	Effective support and supervision		4.48 - 4.55
	Table 1: Suggested training for different target groups
Chapter 5 – Managing individual cases where there are concerns about a child’s safety and welfare
	Introduction	Paragraph(s)	5.1 - 5.2
	Working with children when there are concerns about their safety and welfare		5.3
	Principles underpinning work to safeguard and promote the welfare of children		5.4 - 5.5
	The processes for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children		5.6 - 5.15
	The welfare of unborn children		5.16
	Referrals to local authority children’s social care where there are concerns about a child’s safety or welfare		5.17 - 5.31
	Response of local authority children’s social care to a referral		5.32 - 5.37
	Initial assessment		5.38 - 5.47
	Next steps – child in need but no suspected actual or likely significant harm		5.48 - 5.49
	Next steps – suspicion that a child is suffering, or is likely to suffer, significant harm		5.50
	Immediate protection		5.51 - 5.55
	Strategy discussion		5.56 - 5.61
	Section 47 enquiries and core assessment		5.62 - 5.69
	Child Assessment Orders		5.70
	The impact of section 47 enquiries on the family and child		5.71 - 5.73
	The outcome of section 47 enquiries		5.74
	Concerns are not substantiated		5.75 - 5.76
	Concerns are substantiated, but the child is not judged to be continuing to, or be likely to, suffer significant harm		5.77 - 5.80
	Concerns are substantiated and the child is judged to be continuing to, or be likely to, suffer significant harm		5.81
	The initial child protection conference		5.82 - 5.112
	Action following the initial child protection conference		5.113 - 5.119
	Completion of the core assessment		5.120 - 5.121
	The child protection plan		5.122 - 5.127
	Intervention		5.128 - 5.135
	The child protection review conference		5.136 - 5.140
	Discontinuing the child protection plan		5.141 - 5.143
	Children looked after by the local authority		5.144 - 5.148
	Pre-birth child protection conferences and reviews		5.149
	Recording that a child is the subject of a child protection plan		5.150 - 5.151
	Managing and providing information about a child		5.152 - 5.155
	Recording in individual case records		5.156 - 5.160
	Request for a change of worker		5.161
Chapter 6 – Supplementary guidance on safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children
	Introduction	Paragraph(s)	6.1
	Sexually exploited children		6.2 - 6.4
	Children affected by gang activity		6.5
	Fabricated or induced illness (FII)		6.6 - 6.9
	Investigating complex (organised or multiple) abuse		6.10 - 6.13
	Female genital mutilation		6.14 - 6.19
	Forced marriage and honour-based violence		6.20 - 6.31
	Allegations of abuse made against a person who works with children		6.32 - 6.42
	Abuse of disabled children		6.43 - 6.48
	Child abuse linked to belief in ‘spirit possession’		6.49 - 6.53
	Child victims of trafficking		6.54 - 6.66
Chapter 7 – Child death review processes
	Introduction	Paragraph(s)	7.1 - 7.3
	Overall principles		7.4 - 7.6
	Involvement of parents and family members (for all child deaths)		7.7 - 7.12
	The Regulations relating to child deaths		7.13 - 7.14
	Supply of information about child deaths by registrars		7.15 - 7.17
	Duty and powers of coroners to share information		7.8 - 7.19
	Duty and powers of Medical Examiners (MEs) to share information		7.20
	Definition of an unexpected death of a child		7.21 - 7.22
	Definition of preventable child deaths		7.23 - 7.24
	LSCB responsibilities for the child death review processes		7.25 - 7.31
	Procedures to be followed by the local Child Death Overview Panel (for all child deaths)		7.32 - 7.36
	The process to be followed by Child Death Overview Panels (for all child deaths)		7.37 - 7.47
	Roles and responsibilities when responding rapidly to an unexpected death of a child		7.48 - 7.50
	Other related processes		7.51 - 7.56
	Processes for a rapid response from professionals to all unexpected deaths of children (0–18 years)		7.57 - 7.94
	Use of child death information to prevent future deaths		7.95 - 7.96
Chapter 8 – Serious case reviews
	Reviewing and investigative functions of Local Safeguarding Children Boards	Paragraph(s)	8.1 - 8.4
	The purposes of Serious Case Reviews		8.5 - 8.7
	Safeguarding siblings or other children		8.8
	When should a LSCB undertake a Serious Case Review?		8.9 - 8.10
	When should a LSCB consider undertaking a Serious Case Review?		8.11 - 8.12
	Which LSCB should take lead responsibility?		8.13
	Membership of SCR sub-committees and SCR Panels		8.14 - 8.16
	Instigating a Serious Case Review		8.17 - 8.21
	Timescales for initiating and undertaking a Serious Case Review		8.22 - 8.27
	Who should be involved in the Serious Case Review?		8.28 - 8.33
	Individual management reviews – general principles		2.34 - 8.39
	The Serious Case Review overview report		8.40
	SCR Panel responsibilities for the overview report		8.41
	The executive summary		8.42
	LSCB action on receiving the Serious Case Review report		8.43 - 8.46
	Reviewing institutional abuse		8.47 - 8.48
	Accountability and disclosure		8.49 - 8.51
	Learning lessons locally		8.52 - 8.55
	Learning lessons nationally		8.56
Part 2: Non-statutory practice guidance
Chapter 9 – Lessons from research
	Introduction	Paragraph(s)	9.1 - 9.2
	The impact of maltreatment on children		9.3 - 9.7
	Physical abuse		9.8
	Emotional abuse		9.9
	Sexual abuse		9.10 - 9.11
	Neglect		9.12
	Sources of stress for children and families		9.13 - 9.15
	Social exclusion		9.16
	Domestic violence		9.17 - 9.26
	Mental illness of a parent or carer		9.27 - 9.36
	Parental problem drug use		9.37 - 9.46
	Parental problem alcohol use		9.47 - 9.55
	Parents with a Learning Disability		9.56 - 9.66
Chapter 10 – Implementing the principles on working with children and their families
	Introduction	Paragraph(s)	10.1
	Family group conferences		10.2 - 10.4
	Support, advice and advocacy to children and families		10.5 - 10.6
	Communication and information		10.7 - 10.8
	Race, ethnicity and culture		10.9 - 10.13
	Children in ‘Families at risk’ having very poor outcomes		10.14 - 10.17
	Think Family practice		10.18 - 10.21
	Effectiveness of parenting and family interventions		10.22 - 10.23
	Working with fathers		10.24
	Family Intervention Projects		10.25 - 10.26
	Family Nurse Partnership		10.27 - 10.29
Chapter 11 – Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children who may be particularly vulnerable
	Introduction	Paragraph(s)	11.1
	Children living away from home		11.2 - 11.45
	Abuse by children and young people		11.46 - 11.64
	Children whose behaviour indicates a lack of parental control		11.65 - 11.72
	Race and racism		11.73
	Violent extremism		11.74 - 11.78
	Domestic violence		11.79 - 11.92
	Child abuse and information communication technology (ICT)		11.93 - 11.97
	Children with families whose whereabouts are unknown		11.98 - 11.99
	Children who go missing		11.100 - 11.102
	Children who go missing from education		11.103 - 11.107
	Children of families living in temporary accommodation		11.108 11.110
	Migrant children		11.111
	Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC)		11.112 - 11.117
Chapter 12 – Managing individuals who pose a risk of harm to children
	Introduction	Paragraph(s)	12.1
	Collaborative working		12.2 - 12.3
	Use of the term ‘Schedule One offender’		12.4 - 12.9
	New offences targeted at those who sexually exploit children and young people		12.10 - 12.11
	Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA)		12.12 - 12.25
	Other processes and mechanisms		12.26 - 12.71
Appendices
	Appendix 1 – Statutory framework
	Appendix 2 – Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need
	Appendix 3 – Using standardised assessment tools to evidence assessment and decision making
	Appendix 4 – MOD child protection contacts
	Appendix 5 – Procedures for managing allegations against people who work with children
	Appendix 6 – Faith community contacts and resources
	Appendix 7 – A guide to acronyms in the document
	References and internet links

Contents: 2010 Edition

UPDATE:

Working Together to Safeguard Children: Executive Summary

Preface

Part 1: Statutory Guidance

Chapter 1 – Introduction: working together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and families

Chapter 2 – Roles and responsibilities

Chapter 3 – Local Safeguarding Children Boards

Chapter 4 – Training, development and supervision for inter-agency working

Chapter 5 – Managing individual cases where there are concerns about a child’s safety and welfare

Chapter 6 – Supplementary guidance on safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children

Chapter 7 – Child death review processes

Chapter 8 – Serious case reviews

Part 2: Non-statutory practice guidance

Chapter 9 – Lessons from research

Chapter 10 – Implementing the principles on working with children and their families

Chapter 11 – Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children who may be particularly vulnerable

Chapter 12 – Managing individuals who pose a risk of harm to children

Appendices