Safeguarding Children News - February 2017

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News from Nottingham City Safeguarding Children Board

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Rethinking ‘Did Not Attend’

An animation to encourage practitioners to identify children as ‘was not brought’ as opposed to ‘did not attend’ when they are not presented at medical appointments, has been jointly commissioned by the Nottingham City Safeguarding Children Board (NCSCB), Nottingham City Council, and NHS Nottingham City CCG.

The animation is a powerful reminder that children do not take themselves to appointments, and for practitioners to reflect on the impact of missed appointments on a child’s wellbeing.

Alison Michalska, Vice President of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS), and Corporate Director of Children and Adults in Nottingham City Council, has written a blog about the animation, which you can read here.

Please click here, or on the image below, to watch the animation, and share it with colleagues, friends and family.

Rethinking Did Not Attend

Children’s Workforce Survey

Nottingham City Council and the NCSCB are undertaking consultation via a short survey.  The survey seeks views about how support is provided to children in our city. This includes what respondents think about the Family Support Pathway, multi-agency working and the NCSCB.

We would be grateful if you could both respond to the survey and pass it onto colleagues for them to complete. Your views are really valued and will help to improve the way we work with children and families.

The survey will only take a few minutes to complete.

Please follow the link to complete the survey :

Children’s Workforce Survey


NCSCB Website

We have recently updated the NCSCB website - www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/ncscb - to make it easier to find information and resources.

You can access learning sheets, local safeguarding procedures, information and resources about Signs of Safety – and much more besides!

Please have a look and please get in touch with any feedback at safeguarding.partnerships@nottinghamcity.gov.uk


Every Colleague Matters – Excellence in Safeguarding

The Children’s and Adults Safeguarding Boards in Nottingham City worked with Nottingham City Council colleagues to develop a series of ‘Excellence in Safeguarding’ sessions over a one week period from 6 – 10 February.  The sessions were open to everyone who works within the Childrens and Vulnerable Adults Workforce in the City of Nottingham.  It was developed to showcase our on-going commitment to the workforce, and to keep our Children and Adults safe.

15 different sessions were delivered, including:

  • Assessing Physical Abuse: Child-Centred Safeguarding Practice
  • Medical Neglect of Children
  • Recognising and Responding to the effects of Early Childhood Trauma
  • Working with Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse, and using the DASH-RIC (including referral pathways)
  • Learning from Reviews: Alarm Bells
  • Confirmatory Bias in Safeguarding
  • Making Safeguarding Personal
  • Staying Safe Online
  • Network Meetings & Safety Planning
  • Plus many more sessions……

The presentations from the sessions are now available to download here.


Bite-size Learning Sheets – please read and share

The NCSCB has produced some learning sheets to share the learning from a recent Serious Case Review.  The aim of the learning sheets is to change practice by providing an overview of the practice issues identified through the review in a way that can be shared widely across the workforce to raise awareness and inform better practice.

Each learning sheet gives you a brief overview of a practice issue, how it can manifest, different ways to approach the practice issue, some further reading and a group activity to generate discussion in a group or team setting.

Our collection of Bite-size Learning Sheets can be found here.

We will continue to add more Bite-size Learning Sheets so please keep checking the web page for updates.