Information for Workers
Key Safeguarding Reports & Documents
Safeguarding Ministerial Statement and Terms of Reference - In a written ministerial statement of 22 October 2008, the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families Ed Balls and Baroness Morgan announced the terms of reference for the planned stocktake of Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) which was a commitment in the LSCB Priority Review in June 2007. The stock take will be conducted in close collaboration with local authorities and other partners and will report in spring 2009. October 2008
The Safeguarding Children Review 2008, 8 July 2008
The Department for Children, Schools and Families has published a "Challenge and Improvement Tool" and "Exemplars of LSCB effective local practice" to help LSCBs improve their performance and effectiveness. 15 July 2008
Safeguarding Children: The second joint Chief Inspectors' Report on Arrangements to Safeguard Children CSCI, HMICA, The Healthcare Commission, HMIC, HMIProbation, HMIPrisons, HMCPSI, OFSTED, July 2005
Making Safeguarding Everyone’s Business - The Government’s response to the second Chief Inspectors’ report on arrangements to safeguard children.
Local Safeguarding Children Boards - A Review of Progress (2007)
PSA Delivery Agreement 13: Improve children and young people's safety. HM Government, Revised November 2007
Staying Safe: Action Plan , DfCSF, February 2008
Local Safeguarding Children Boards National Event Documentary, 2007
Targeted Youth Support - A Guide, DfES , March 2007. The guide offers practical help with the design and implementation of targeted youth support in each local area, drawing on early learning from 14 targeted youth support pathfinders. The guide is designed to inform all strategic leads, operational managers and frontline staff involved in the design and implementation of targeted youth support from, for example, education, health, social services, youth services, Connexions, police, youth justice, voluntary and community sector and housing.
Managing risk and minimising mistakes in service to children and families SCIE, September 2005
Common Assessment Framework: Managers' and Practitioners' Guides
Privacy statement guidance and outline template - all services that collect personal information about children, young people and their families need to have in place a privacy statement that they can issue to all service users. The privacy statement needs to explain in plain English the following principles:
- Who is collecting the information
- Why the information is needed and what that information is
- What you will do with it, including: how it will be collected, used and stored
- How you will safeguard it and when you will dispose of it
- How people can check the information you hold on them
- How to get more information and how to complain
It also gives details on how each of these principles shows adherence to the Data Protection Act. The information given in this document has been complied from that given by the Department for Constitution Affairs and refers people producing privacy statements to their website for further information.
The outline template is for adaptation in each service with the additional information about the service added where shown.
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