Safeguarding is everyone's responsibility
E-Briefing Notes
March 2015
One of our strategic objectives is that we communicate and engage in a variety of ways to support professionals in their work and to influence the wider community in the part they can play in safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
Please feel free to send this E-Briefing to a friend or colleague using the link at the bottom of the briefing.
As well as our website www.suffolkscb.org.uk, we are on Twitter #suffolkscb and have a dedicated Communications mailbox LSCBCommunication@suffolk.gov.uk
Child Sexual Exploitation
THE MORE YOU KNOW, THE MORE YOU SEE
The Jay report into CSE in Rotherham highlighted clear lessons and recommendations that the LSCB take very seriously and have worked to address.
Baroness Jay reported that the scale and seriousness of CSE was underplayed, despite hard evidence that was emerging from frontline workers. Perpetrators targeted the most troubled and isolated children and children gathering in certain ‘hot spots’ or regularly going missing should always be considered at risk of CSE. She also recommended that thresholds for intervention by agencies need to be clearly defined and set at an appropriate level and online grooming can move from online contact to personalised contact very quickly.
The LSCB has a strategy and action plan to promote the safety of children and young people from Child Exploitation 2013/2016. It was designed to encourage all agencies to work towards combating child sexual exploitation and to develop an effective local strategy; ensuring there is a co-ordinated multi-agency response to CSE, based on robust and thorough risk assessment of the extent and nature of child sexual exploitation locally.
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LSCB Key Contacts
Sue Hadley, Independent Chair
Ali Spalding, LSCB Manager, ali.spalding@suffolk.gov.uk
Paul Nicholls, LSCB Professional Advisor – Performance and QA, paul.nicholls@suffolk.gov.uk
Shirley Coleman, LSCB Business Support Manager, shirley.coleman@suffolk.gov.uk
Toni Cornish, LSCB Assistant Business Support Co-ordinator, toni.cornish@suffolk.gov.uk
Evelyn Irving, LSCB (ABSM) Child Death Co-ordinator, evelyn.irving@suffolk.gov.uk / cdop@suffolk.gov.uk (secure)
Further information about the work of the Board together with the latest safeguarding leaflets, policies and procedures are available on our website www.suffolkscb.org.uk
E-Learning
In order to support our partners to ensure that those staff whose work brings them into contact with children and young people undertake introductory safeguarding training, the LSCB are now able to offer the Me Safeguarding Children E-Learning Courses, which are designed to ensure that all staff receive the initial training that will enable them to understand and recognise potential signs of abuse or neglect and meet the training criteria as laid out in Working Together 2010. Courses include learning across Groups 1 – 4.
There are a limited number of free places available to LSCB partners, but for other interested parties there could be a small charge based on the number of modules you decide to take. All courses are accessed by delegates logging on to a website. A certificate is automatically awarded to the delegate upon passing the test which can be printed and used as evidenced learning. All of the course content has been independently certified as conforming to accepted CPD guidelines. To access the system send your details to the mailbox elearning@suffolkscb.org.uk
Concerned?
Are you worried about the welfare of a child? -see referral flowchart (PDF, 248KB)
OR
Contact Customer First / Emergency Duty Service on 0808 800 4005
Are you worried about the welfare of an adult?
Adult Safeguarding Board Website: suffolkas.org
Suffolk Police: 101 or 999 in an emergency
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