Welcome to Safeguarding Guidelines and Procedures Online for North Lincolnshire.
This page holds the contents of the procedure, please click on the headings below to be taken to the relevant section. Within your selected section you will then be able to choose a sub-section.
For any further information or help with these procedures please contact the Local Safeguarding Children Board on 01724 867821 or 55-57 Oswald Road Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, DN15 7PE
Part one: statutory guidance
Part two: non-statutory practice guidance
Appendices
Supplementary procedures:
Managing allegations against people who work with children
The procedures produced and agreed by the LSCB in 2007 set out the responsibilities for all agencies working with children and young people regarding the management of allegations against people who work with children in either a paid or voluntary capacity.
Child death overview panel
The child death overview panel was implemented in 2008 to comply with The Children Act 2006. The local procedures agreed by the LSCB in 2008 outline the process to be follwoed by all agencies represented on the LSCB in relation to the response, notification and review of unexpected child deaths
Multi agency risk assessment conference (MARAC)
The Humberside Procedures for managing assessed high risk victims of domestic violence are below. In addition there is the information sharing protocol for the MARAC
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Making a referral to children and young people's services
The document below is guidance for professionals on making a referral to children and young poeple's services.
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Safeguarding processes:
The Common Assessment Framework
The Common Assessment (CAF) is a national requirement for all agencies involved in providing services for children and families. It is an early assessment of need that is conducted in partnership with children and families by any professional who recognises that the child or family may have needs over and above those that can be met through one single agency. Performance and quality of the Common Assessment is monitored by the team and reported back to the Local Safeguarding Children's Board (LSCB) agencies.
Children with additional needs and children in need
These processessupport children and families that have additional needs identified via the CAF and who have a number of agencies involved with them. It also coordinates the plans and services for children who are deemed to be 'in need' because without services they would suffer impairment of their health, welfare or development. The quality of interventions and services is also monitored by the team and reported back to the LSCB.
Child protection
Child Protection plans are put together for children when they have suffered or are belived to be at risk of suffering significant harm. The purpose is to reduce the risk of harm, prevent further harm occurring, and reduce the impact of harm already suffered. This is done by providing a child protection conference system for professional agencies, children and families. The Child Protection team monitors and reviews all child protection plans ensuring that as far as possible the risks are managed to allow children to remain with their families where it is safe to do so.
The team contributes to the LSCB training programme and provides formal consultation and advice on child protection processes and complex safeguarding issues to all agencies and professionals. It also reports to the LSCB on quality and performance of child protection services across North Lincolnshire.
The team is managed by the Child Protection Coordinator for North Lincolnshire. You can contact her by email, at sarah.cresswell@northlincs
Please note: The above documents are in Portable Document Format (PDF). You will need a suitable reader to view them. A reader can be downloaded free from the Adobe website (full instructions for downloading the reader are provided on the site).