Welcome To Wirral

1. Preface

• Purpose of the document and who should read it
• Status of the Document
• Navigating these Procedures
• Inter-Agency Co-operation to Promote and Safeguard Children
• Five Outcomes
• Staying Safe
• Being Healthy
• Enjoying & Achieving
• Making a Positive Contribution
• Achieve Economic Well-Being
• Key Features of the Effective Arrangements to Safeguard and Promote the Welfare of Children
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Key Definitions and Concepts
• A Child
• Safeguarding and Promoting Welfare
• Child Concern Model - Guide to Integrated Working
• Child Protection
• Child in Need
• Significant Harm
• - Flow Chart – Significant Harm Criteria
• Abuse and Neglect

2. Other Related Guidance

• Supplementing Guidance
• Children Abused through Prostitution
• Fabricated or Induced Illness
• Female Genital Mutilation
• Forced Marriages
• Organised or Multiple Abuse
• Allegations of Abuse Made Against a Person Who Works With Children

3. Guidance for Children in Special Circumstances

• Sudden and Unexplained Death of a Child
• Sexually Harmful behaviour by Children and Young People
• Drug and Alcohol Misusing Parents/Carers
• Children who Ingest Controlled Substances
• Child Abuse and the Internet
• Domestic Violence
• Abuse of Disabled Children
• Private Fostering
• Children who go Missing from Home/Care
• Managing Individuals who Pose a Risk Of Harm to Children
• Waiving arrangements for Schedule 1 offenders on release from prison
• Safeguarding Children in Licensed Premises
• Sexual Activity in Under 18s
• Children Living in Temporary Accommodation
• Children in Custody
• Children Visiting Psychiatric and Special Hospitals
• Management of Children in Need who are Medically Fit for Discharge
• Children in Need Moving in and Out of Wirral

4. What to Do If You Are Worried About a Child

• Being Alert to Children’s Welfare
• What to do if you become aware of concerns about the welfare or safety of a child

5. Managing Individual Cases

• Working with Children About Whom there are Child Protection Concerns
• Principles underpinning work to safeguard and promote the welfare of children
• The processes for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children
• Flow Chart 1 – Referral
• Flow Chart 2 – What Happens Following Initial Assessment
• Flow Chart 3 – Urgent Action to Safeguard Children
• Flow Chart 4 – What Happens after the Strategy Discussion?
• Flow Chart 5 – What Happens after the Child Protection Conference, Including the Review Process?
• Referrals to the Children and Young People’s Department where there are Child Welfare concerns
• Response to Referrals and Processes for Management of Cases

6. Action Following a Referral

• Child in Need Not At Risk of Significant Harm
• Initial Assessment
• Core Assessment
• Child in Need and Suspected Actual or Likely Significant Harm
• Strategy Discussion
• Assessment Interviews
• Section 47 Enquiries and Core Assessments
• Child Protection Agreements
• Immediate Protection
• Outcome of Section 47 Enquiries
• Joint Investigations with the Police
• Investigative/Best Evidence Interviews
• Medical Assessments in Child Protection Cases

 

7. Child Protection Conferences

• The Child Protection Conference Process
• Information and Reports
• Quorum
• Involving Child and Family Members
• Exclusions
• Chairing the Conference
• Initial Case Conference
• Decision - Is a Child Protection Plan Required?
• Tasks of the Conference
• Child Protection Conference Appeals Procedure
• The Child Protection Plan
• Recommendations
• Administration and Record Keeping
• Confidentiality
• Role of the Key Worker
• Role of the Core Group
• When a Child Protection Plan Cannot Be Implemented
• Child Protection Review Conference
• Looked After Children
• Access to a Child Who Has a Child Protection Plan
• Children with a Child Protection Plan who go Missing
• Transfer Conferences
• Pre-Birth Child Protection Conference and Reviews
• Request for a Change of Worker

8. Recording and Management

• Recording
• Supervision

9. LSCB

• LSCB
• Compact

10. Management of Serious Case Reviews

• Serious Case Review

Executive Summaries

• JLS (NEW)
• JC
• JB

 

• Child Deaths (AWAITING GUIDANCE)
• Information Sheet for Professionals
• Wirral Letter for Parents
• Leaflet for Birth Parents (amended 27/5/2008)

11. Information Sharing Protocol

12. Individual Agency Sections

• Guidance for Probation Staff
• Guidance for Education Staff - Teaching and Non Teaching
• Merseyside Police
• CAFCASS
• Housing
• North West Ambulance Service: Safeguarding Children Policy
• North West Ambulance Service: Safeguarding Children Procedures
• Health

13. Practice Guidance

• (New) Guidance for Safer Working Practice for Adults who work with Children and Young People
• Introduction
• The person posing a risk to children assessment framework
• Assessing internet sexual abuse
• Considerations of sexual abuse in kinship placements
• Assessing female sexual perpetrators
• Assessment of the mother as a protective parent
• Couple relationship
• Victims of sexual abuse: recognition and assessment issues
• Assessment of siblings or other children and young persons in the household
• A framework for Assessing the Viability of Contact between the Perpetrator and Children in Sexual Abuse Cases
• Differentiating 'normal' from 'abusive' in young people
• Assessing Children Who Sexually Abuse
• Differentiating 'normal' from 'abusive' in children
• A prognosis Framework for Cases Involving Sexual Abuse Within the Family
• Rehabilitation
• Safeguarding Disabled Children

14. Legislative Framework

• Children Act 1989 (Section 17/47)
• Children Act 2004 (Section 10-13)
• Police Protection Powers
• Homelessness Act 2002

APPENDIX

• Appendix 1 - Multi Agency Referral Form
• Appendix 2 - Agency Conference Report
• Appendix 3 - Assessment Tool for Neglect Record Sheet