Too Little; Too Late: A multi-agency response to identifying and tackling neglect
The NSPCC have developed a briefing called ‘Too little, too late: The multi-agency response to identifying and tackling neglect’ Too little, too late: The multi-agency response to identifying and tackling neglect (nspcc.org.uk) the report is urging for more research, policy and practice focus on neglect so the response can change.
The CSCP launched the Cumbria CSCP Neglect Strategy 2023–2026 and the Day in my Life Tools which can be found here.
The CSCP are undertaking quality assurance and scrutiny work to evidence impact of the Day in My Life Tools to identify neglect earlier in a child/young persons life.
We welcome your comments on the use of the tools by completing the short questionnaire you can find here and encourage you to cascade the questionnaire to colleagues within your organisations
Cumberland's Conference and Review Team will be moving to all Initial Child Protection Conferences being held in person as from the 2nd January 2025. This is in response to feedback that meetings held in person feel more inclusive and supportive for children and families and that the discussion and planning to safeguard children is strengthened. This will mean that all agencies will need to attend at the venue and that an MS Teams link will not be provided for ICPCs. The team will continue to hold Review Child Protection Conferences with a hybrid option for agencies but with an expectation that attending in person is preferred.
The IRO Service will be introducing an automatic process beginning 2nd January 2025 where a child protection plan will be ended when a child becomes ‘cared for’ due to a Court Order being in place. A letter will be sent out to all agencies who are part of the child protection planning inviting a response within 5 days of the receipt of letter if they are not in agreement to the Child Protection Plan ending. This is designed to reduce children and families being involved in two processes and having to attend multiple meetings. For children who are cared for voluntarily (S20) or where there is a plan for them to return home within a short timeframe the Child Protection Plan will be considered at the first cared for review (within 28 days).
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Cumberland Council have launched their Family Help and Prevention Strategy in July. One of the key areas is for them to work more closely with all partners to provide the right support at the right time to children, young people and families in Cumberland.
Join them at one of a series of events so they can explain what they are trying to achieve for people living in Cumberland and how they plan to achieve it. There will also be an opportunity to discuss with them and other professionals as to how they can work together to achieve better outcomes for everyone.
Book your place.
Cumberland Early Help and Family Support Panels
As part of our Family Help transformation programme, we have taken the decision to stand down our current Early Help and Family Support Panels as we develop new support routes to ensure children, young people and families get the right support at the right time and the advice, guidance, and signposting, you as our partners and colleagues may need.
As we move forward there will be a number of opportunities for partners to work more collaboratively together to ensure we work as a system and not single service, including a Family Help (Early Help) quarterly forum, attendance at Team around the Family meetings, sub-groups from our Family Help Partnership and co-production and design of our outreach offer. For more information, please find attached our Family Help and Prevention Strategy.
If you are leading an Early Help Plan or need to seek advice about a child or family in the interim, please do not hesitate to contact Karen Ross and Mags Moorhead, as your Family Help Area Officers, who will be available for consultation for any Early Help Assessments and Plans that you feel would have benefitted from a discussion at panel, information discussed will be recorded on our Early Help System.
Karen Ross and Mags Moorhead have attended and also chaired panels for many years and have a fantastic knowledge of, and connection with, the agencies who support our children and families and they will be happy for you to get in touch. Please visit the Early Help Team page of the CSCP website, which you can find the contact details here
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Following consultation and engagement Westmorland and Furness Council are pleased to announce that at their October Cabinet meeting the Family Help Strategy has been approved .
Their ambition is for Westmorland and Furness to be a great place to live, work and thrive; a place where there are opportunities for children and young people to live happy healthy lives, safeguarded from harm in the place they call home and within their community.
The approach prioritises providing support at the earliest opportunity and improving access to services by bringing them into the communities that need them.
This is the first Family Help Strategy since becoming a new council in April 2023 – the strategy provides a framework for their work at early help level which is grounded in the belief that early intervention and prevention are essential to promoting positive outcomes for children and families. To ensure their strategic approach is coherent, they will align their priorities and actions with those captured in other key strategies and plans, this strategy is aligned to the Ambition for Every Child (Children and Young People’s Plan).
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TRAINING AVAILABLE
The CSCP are delivering an array of training sessions. Please review below current training being delivered either face to face or via teams.
Please also visit our learning zone on our website for all our eLearning courses offered to professionals and volunteers working with children/young people and their families who live in Cumbria.
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Safeguarding Level 3
The CSCP have secured further dates for Safeguarding in Practice - Working Together to Safeguard Children - Multi-agency approach to safeguard, protect and promote the welfare of children - Designated Safeguarding Leads - Only (Level 3 Training).
This workshop is part of a programme of learning events that practitioners and professionals, working with children, can access to support their learning at level 3. A full programme of events will be available for staff to access according to their learning needs.
- Tuesday 19 November 2024 (9.30am-12.30pm) Helena Thompson Museum, Workington
- Thursday 30 January 2025 (1.30-4.30pm) St Gregory's & St Patrick's Infant School, Whitehaven
- Wednesday 12 February 2025 (9.30am-12.30pm) Voreda House, Penrith
- Tuesday 11 March 2025 (1.30-4.30pm) Barrow Town Hall, Barrow
To book your place, please email CSCP.Training@cumbria.gov.uk
Transitional Safeguarding is an “approach to safeguarding adolescents and young adults fluidly” and builds on the best available evidence and learning from both children's and adult safeguarding practice.
Further to learning identified in the Kate SAR, which was undertaken by Cumbria Safeguarding Adults Board (CSAB), the CSCP, in collaboration with CSAB, are facilitating a lunch and learn session to formally launch a Transitional Safeguarding Procedure for children and young adults at risk of exploitation.
Transitional Safeguarding & Exploitation Procedure: launch session as a lunch and learn
- Tuesday 3 December 2024 (12-1pm) via teams
The procedure sets out the arrangements for young people aged 17.5 years and above, whose circumstances may mean that safeguarding adults' procedures would apply when they are 18.
Practitioners working with children and young adults are invited to attend this lunch and learn session, where there will be a walkthrough of the procedure.
To book your place, please email CSCP.Training@cumbria.gov.uk
Child Exploitation Training
The CSCP recommend that anyone working with children should complete Child Exploitation (CE) Level 1 eLearning as mandatory training. Click here to access the training.
For those practitioners who work more closely with children and young people and are involved in their safety planning, these practitioners should complete Child Exploitation (CE) Level 2 training,
- Monday 13 January 2025 (1-4pm) Barrow AFC, Barrow
- Thursday 13 March 2025 (10am-1pm) St Gregory & St Patrick's Infant School, Whitehaven
To book your place, please email CSCP.Training@cumbria.gov.uk
Impact Chronology
The CSCP are delivering training on Impact Chronology. The sessions will be face to face workshops across the county. The aim of the sessions are to enable practitioners to develop skills in using impact chronologies.
- Wednesday 11 December 2024 (1.30-3.30pm) Penrith Rugby Club
To book your place, please email CSCP.Training@cumbria.gov.uk
There will be further dates also delivered in the Cumberland area.
Important information - this training is multi-agency and we encourage practitioners from all agencies to take part in this training.
Online Safety
The CSCP are delivering a virtual briefing session on Multi-Agency Online Safety, this training is for practitioners and teachers, but is also suitable for parents/carers.
- Wednesday 4 December 2024 (3.30-4.30pm) via MS Teams
To book your place, please email CSCP.Training@cumbria.gov.uk
Important information - please join 5-10 prior to the session and do not share the teams link with others.
Non Fatal Strangulation and Non Fatal Suffocation Training
Following excellent feedback from the recent session this week, the CSCP are running further lunchtime learning session on Non Fatal Strangulation and Non Fatal Suffocation (NFS).
The session is suitable for multiagency frontline professionals and those with safeguarding practice/policy development responsibilities.
The session aims to equip you with:
- Awareness of the seriousness of NFS
- An understanding of the physiological and psychological impact of NFS
- Developed understanding of risk associated with NFS and how to identify and manage risk
- An understanding of how victims may present
- An understanding of how to respond and support appropriately to safeguard victims and children & young people
To book your place, please email CSCP.Training@cumbria.gov.uk
- Wednesday 5 February 2025 (12-1pm) via MS Teams
Important information - please join 5-10 prior to the session and do not share the teams link with others.
The Early Help Team and Domestic Abuse Team are delivering awareness sessions to staff within schools, colleges and settings around the following Domestic Abuse topics:
- Introductions and role of the DA Team
- Definitions of abuse
- Indicators and types of abuse
- What is controlling and coercive behaviour?
- Stages of change model
- Domestic abuse and the impact on children and child’s voice
- DASH & MARAC process
- Support for families and children
- The Operation Encompass process
These awareness sessions are available to all staff with DSL responsibilities or who work directly with families.
All sessions are 3:30-5pm via MS Teams on the following dates:
For further information and how to book a place, please visit here
The Department for Education (DfE) has published statutory guidance on kinship care, setting out how local authorities in England should support children who are cared for by extended family or friends.
The guidance is written for those who work in and with local authority children’s social care and contains information that may be useful to children, young people and families in kinship care arrangements.
The guidance outlines: the definition and role of kinship care; the types of arrangements and processes; and the requirement for each local authority to publish a kinship local offer explaining the support available to children and their carers.
You can find the guidance here
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