GSCP Newsletter - April 2022

Message for Schools that no longer buy into Traded Services

Schools that have not bought into Traded Services by 30th April 2022 will no longer be automatically entitled to GSCP Training. You can still continue to access the training by joining our Membership Scheme.

Please contact gscetraining@gloucestershire.gov.uk for more information.

Coffee Break Briefings

The GSCP produce short coffee break guides & briefings for agencies to use to inform practice and support agencies and practitioners in understanding process and procedure. Designed to be a quick reference easy read with links to the wider GSCP policies, procedures, guidance, and arrangements.

Neglect – Coffee Break Briefing - The way we understand & define neglect can determine how we respond to it. CLICK HERE to read the briefing.

Rapid Reviews – Coffee Break Briefing - When a serious child safeguarding case is highlighted to the Safeguarding Partnership, and it meets a threshold for a Serious Incident Notification (SIN), The Partnership is required to undertake a Rapid Review and has 15 working days to complete and notify the National Panel of the outcome of the meeting. CLICK HERE to read the briefing.

Allegations Management - A Guide for Employers - Working Together to Safeguard Children and the GSCP Published Arrangements places a duty on employers to ensure that all allegations or low-level concerns relating to an adult in a position of trust are managed appropriately. CLICK HERE to read the briefing.

Allegations Management - A Guide for Education Settings - Part 4 of Keeping Children Safe in Education 2021, details schools’ and any education setting’s responsibilities and role to ensure that all allegations or low-level concerns are managed appropriately. CLICK HERE to read the briefing.

Effective Information Sharing
& Consent

Effective information-sharing underpins integrated working and is a vital element of both early intervention and safeguarding.

Research and experience have shown repeatedly that keeping children safe from harm requires practitioners and others to share information. Practitioners should be proactive in sharing information as early as possible to help identify, assess and respond to risks or concerns about the safety and welfare of children. This GSCP Practice Briefing offers a short guide to information sharing to safeguard children.

GSCP Section 11 Audit

GSCP Section 11 Audit Report 2021/2022

Section 11 of the Children Act 2004 places duties on a range of organisations, agencies and individuals to ensure their functions, and any services that they contract out to others, are discharged having regard to the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. (WT2018 p.g.58)

The themed audit is designed to check compliance against the Section 11 standards for key safeguarding partners.  The report contains assurances and recommendations as defined by the Independent Scrutineer covering the period April 2021 to March 2022. CLICK HERE to read the full report.

Multi-Agency Child Neglect Training

We have lots of spaces available for our next available date – 20^th May 2022. Please sign up via MeLearning here: https://gsce.melearning.university/course_centre

The purpose of this course is for participants to:-

1. Recognise the impact of neglect on the developing child
2. Outline the range and types of neglect and how to respond to these
3. Compare different levels of neglect and how they relate to Gloucestershire’s Levels of Intervention 
4. Use the Neglect Toolkit to inform a multi-agency response
5. Use the Escalation Policy if you are concerned about a professional's response to your concerns