New or Updated Protocols and Processes now available on GSCE Website
A number of Protocols and Processes have been added or updated on the GSCE Website. Please click on the links to go to the relevant information:
Gloucestershire's Child Death Protocol is a Joint-Agency protocol produced by CDOP on behalf of GSCE.
This is a live document and is reviewed and updated as required. During the Covid pandemic the Child Death Process will continue to function but all contact with professionals and families will be by telephone.
Child Death Review Process
Gloucestershire Discharge from Hospital protocol is designed to provide safe planning for any children who are in care or who are being discharged from Gloucestershire Hospitals
This agreed protocol is in place to improve the understanding for staff involved in the care of vulnerable children who are in care or who are being discharged from Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GHNHSFT) into new care placement, including the implications for the provision of health care. And to improve the understanding of processes involved during Health Care delivery to ensure a smooth transition when children move into foster care or parent and baby placements.
Discharge from Hospital of Children in Care
In Gloucestershire concerns have arisen as to the number of non-mobile infants who have presented with serious non accidental injuries
One of the recurrent themes identified from safeguarding reviews is that non-mobile infants who presented with serious non accidental injury had often been seen by a professional with a minor injury prior to the devastating event. As a consequence, a multi-agency professional group was established to review and re-write Gloucestershire’s safeguarding protocol for injuries in non-mobile infants. Please find the revised Protocol here
Multi-Agency Guidance for Injuries in Non-Mobile Infants
Gloucestershire’s Levels of Intervention Guidance – Working Together to Provide Early Help, Targeted and Specialist Support for Children (including the unborn) and Families in Gloucestershire
The Levels of Intervention Guidance has been revised following actions identified in the local Serious Case Review ‘James’ with regards to increased risk to pregnant women and children under one of domestic abuse and significant changes to the Early Help Pathway. Please find the revised document here
Gloucestershire Revised LOI Guidance
Under Working Together 2018 the local Safeguarding Partners must have a process in place to review and respond to Serious Incident Notifications and cases of concern that are referred to the partners for consideration of a Rapid Review and Child Safeguarding Practice Review (CSPR)
The purpose of reviews of serious child safeguarding cases, at both local and national level, is to identify improvements to be made to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. Learning is relevant locally, but it has a wider importance for all practitioners working with children and families and for the government and policy-makers. Understanding whether there are systemic issues, and whether and how policy and practice need to change, is critical to the system being dynamic and self-improving.
Reviews should seek to prevent or reduce the risk of recurrence of similar incidents. They are not conducted to hold individuals, organisations or agencies to account. The following link takes you to the revised Rapid Review and CSPR Process for the GSCE.
GSCE Rapid Review & CSPR Process
Section 11 places duties on a range of organisations, agencies and individuals to ensure their functions, and any services that they contract or commission out to others, are discharged having regard to the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
Following a review of the section 11 procedures previously undertaken by the GSCB, the GSCE Delivery Board endorsed a plan in December 2019 to review and revise the section 11 process as part of the local arrangements under Working Together 2018. This proposal was signed off by the Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Executive (GSCE) in May 2020. The link takes you to the new Section 11 Procedures
GSCE Section 11 Audit Process
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