Jacqui Batchelor, Deputy Service Director, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Gill Brooks, Commissioning Manager, Brighton & Hove CCG
Kerry Clarke, Public Health, Brighton & Hove City Council

Timely & appropriate information sharing between agencies is vital to safeguarding vulnerable adults and children. All professionals should be supported to have a clear understanding of what information can be shared within the relevant legal frameworks, including how to obtain consent to share. We’ve seen from local case reviews that information sharing is still an area of challenge for our professionals.

A Caldicott Guardian is a senior person responsible for protecting the confidentiality of patient and service-user information and enabling appropriate information-sharing. This Q&A session will allow you to direct questions to some of the city’s Caldicott Guardians about best practice in sharing information and their role to actively support and enable good information sharing. Led by:

Soline Jerram, Brighton & Hove Clinical Commissioning Group
Pinaki Ghoshal,   Brighton & Hove Children’s Services
Denise D’Souza, Brighton & Hove City Council’s Adult Services

The Care Act 2014 and the Children & Families Act have introduced new rights to assessment and support for young carers. This one off workshop will cover a brief overview of these rights and what we are doing locally to implement this.

During the workshop, staff will have the opportunity to gain understanding around the experiences of being a young carer about the diverse caring roles and carers experience of support. You will have an opportunity to hear from young people in our city.

Topics covered include:

• How does taking on a caring role effect a young person
• How can you engage young carers and their families
• What support is available for young carers
• What are the pathways for referring a young carer?

Child sexual abuse is under-reported. Support can be fragmented and variable and we all have a duty to protect children.

Within this event we will discuss the common ways children “disclose” and through case scenarios explore how individuals can work together most effectively.

The Sussex Children’s SARC is there but do you know what it is and what it can provide?

Topics covered include:

• When and how to contact the SARC
• Common ways children “disclose”
• Harmful Sexual Behaviours
• Working together to protect children from sexual abuse

In 2014 the Home Office estimated that there were between 10,000 - 13,000 potential victims of modern slavery in the UK. This trade in human misery is taking place in cities, towns and rural communities across the nation on a shameful scale. Sexual exploitation is the most common form of modern slavery currently reported by potential victims in the UK, followed by labour exploitation, forced criminal exploitation and domestic servitude. Victims can be adults or children.

Victims of modern slavery are isolated and fearful and there are many reasons why reporting rates are low. Only a few cases have come to light in Brighton & Hove but we believe that the city is affected by this global phenomenon. This awareness-raising session will explain what Modern Slavery is and equip you with knowledge of the signs and indicators to look out for.

Topics covered include:

• Definitions of key terms and an introduction to the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
• Common signs and indicators that might indicate that someone is a victim
• Reporting your concerns about an adult or a child.
• The National Referral Mechanism for victims.

One of the functions of the Local Safeguarding Children Board is to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of both collective and individual agency arrangements for safeguarding children and young people and promoting their welfare.

This workshop will provide a whistle-stop overview of the LSCB quality assurance activity completed in the last year

Topics covered include:

• What is Quality Assurance & why do we need it?
• What does good look like?
• What can we learn from multi agency audits?