1. Working with Children and Families

• 1.1

  Level of Need Guidance, Including Early Help
  
• 1.2

  Terminology
  
• 1.3

  Working Together to Safeguard Children
  
• 1.4

  Children and families who move across Safeguarding Children Partnership Boundaries
  

2. The Safeguarding Children Partnership

• 2.1

  Multi-Agency Safeguarding Arrangements
  

3. Information Sharing and Confidentiality

• 3.1

  Information Sharing in Sefton
  
  • 3.1.3

    Introduction
    
  • 3.1.3

    Seven Golden Rules of Information Sharing (taken from Information Sharing: Guidance for Practitioners and Managers)
    
  • 3.1.3

    Further Information to Inform Decision Making
    
  • 3.1.4

    Caldicott Guardian
    
  • 3.1.5

    Child Protection - Information Sharing (CP-IS)
    
  • 3.1.6

    Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme
    
  • 3.1.7

    The Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme
    
  • 3.1.8

    Data Breach
    
• 3.2

  Pan-Merseyside MAPPA Information Sharing Agreement
  

4. Recognition and Referral of Abuse & Neglect

5. Response to Child Protection Referrals

• 5.1

  Advice, Support, Consultation & Referral
  
• 5.2

  Ensuring Immediate Safety
  
• 5.3

  Assessment for Children with Disabilities as a Child in Need under section 17 Children Act 1989
  
• 5.4

  Listening to a Child
  
• 5.5

  Confidentiality
  
• 5.6

  What Happens Next? (Following a Referral)
  
• 5.7

  Child Protection Medicals
  

6. Child Protection Conferences

• 6.1

  Managing Individual Cases
  
  • 6.1.1

    Child In Need
    
  • 6.1.2

    Initial Child Protection Conference
    
  • 6.1.2

    Reconvened Conference
    
  • 6.1.3

    Core Group
    
  • 6.1.4

    Child Protection Review Conference
    
  • 6.1.5

    Discontinuing a Child Protection Plan
    
  • 6.1.6

    Managing and Providing Information About a Child
    
  • 6.1.7

    Pre-Birth Conference
    
  • 6.1.8

    Request for a Change of Worker
    
  • 6.1.9

    Complaints by Service Users
    
  • 6.1.10

    Immediate Resolution
    
  • 6.1.11

    Reconvened Conference
    
  • 6.1.12

    Further Challenge
    
  • 6.1.13

    Role of Key Worker
    
• 6.2

  Pan-Merseyside Pre-Birth Protocol
  
• 6.3

  Transfer Child Protection Conference
  
• 6.4

  Involving Children and Family Members
  
• 6.5

  Escalating Concerns
  - SSCP Professional Escalation Flowchart
  - Appendices
  
• 6.6

  Escalation Flow Chart
  

7. The Child Protection Plan

• 7.1

  Implementation of the Child Protection Plan
  
• 7.2

  Record of Children with a Child Protection Plan and Enquiries of the Record
  

8. Safe Recruitment

• 8.1

  Safe Recruitment and Selection of Staff
  - Recruitment
  - Advertising and Appointing
  - Disclosure and Barring Service Checks
  - Childcare Disqualification
  - Supervision and Staff Development
  

9. Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews

• 9.1

  Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review
  

10. Child Death

• 10.1

  Pan Merseyside SUDiC Protocol
  

11. Adults Who Pose a Risk of Harm to Children

• 11.1

  Register of Sexual Offenders
  
• 11.2

  Pan-Merseyside MAPPA Protocol
  
• 11.3

  Information Sharing - MAPPA
  
• 11.4

  Known Offenders and Others who may Pose a Risk to Children
  

12. Parents With Additional Needs

• 12.1

  Parenting Capacity and Learning Disabilities
  

13. Self-harm and Suicide

• 13.1

  Self-harm, Suicidal Behaviour & Suicide, and Response
  

14. Children in Specific Circumstances

• 14.1

  Pan Merseyside Bruising in Non Mobile Children
  
• 14.2

  Body Maps
  
• 14.3

  Fabricated or Induced Illness (FII) and Perplexing Presentations
  
• 14.4

  Safeguarding Children impacted by Domestic Abuse
  
• 14.5

  Complex (Organised and Multiple) abuse
  
• 14.6

  Missing Children
  
• 14.7

  Safeguarding Children Missing Education
  
• 14.8

  Children Who Present With Harmful Sexual Behaviours
  - Introduction
  - Children And Young People Who Display Inappropriate Or Harmful Sexual Behaviour
  - The AIM Project
  - Principles of Working With Children And Young People Who Present With Inappropriate or Harmful Sexual Behaviour
  - Recognition of Abuse By A Child Or Young Person
  - Referral and Assessment
  - Procedure
  
• 14.9

  Safeguarding Children with Disability
  - Vulnerability of Children with Disability
  - Listening to & Communicating with Children with Disability
  - Early help for children with disability
  - Assessment for Children with Disabilities as a Child in need (CIN) under section 17 Children Act 1989
  - Assessing Children With Disability for Significant Harm
  - Concerns About Significant Harm of a Child With Disability
  - Investigating Allegations of Significant Harm Involving Children With Disability Or Their Siblings
  - Responding to Concerns About Sexual Abuse By A Child Or Young Person With Disability
  - Interviewing Children with Disability As Part Of Criminal Proceedings
  

15. Child Exploitation

• 15.1

  Child Exploitation
  
• 15.2

  Contextual Safeguarding (Harm Outside the Home)
  
• 15.3

  Child Victims of Modern Slavery and Trafficking
  - What is the National Referral Mechanism (NRM)?
  - Duty to Notify
  - How Does the NRM Work?
  - Signs That a Property Might Be Hiding a Victim Of Modern Slavery
  
• 15.4

  PREVENT Strategy
  - The Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015
  - 2020 – 2022 Sefton Prevent Action Plan
  - The Sefton Channel Panel
  - What is the process for progressing a Channel/Prevent referral?
  - Governance and Accountability
  
• 15.5

  Criminal and Sexual Exploitation Including Serious Organised Crime and Gangs
  

16. Harmful Practices Linked to Faith or Culture

• 16.1

  Forced Marriage and Honour-based Violence
  
• 16.2

  Female Genital Mutilation
  
• 16.3

  Male Circumcision
  

17. Allegations Against People Who Work With, Care For, or Volunteer with Children

• 17.1

  Allegations Against People Who Work With, Care For, or Volunteer with Children
  - Roles and Responsibilities
  - Responding to an Allegation
  - The Senior Manager’s Initial Response
  - Responding to Allegation Made to the Police
  - Responding to Allegation made to Children’s Social Care
  - Initial Consideration and Actions
  - Restrictions on Identifying Teachers Against Whom Allegations of Criminal Misconduct Have Been Made
  - Strategy Discussions
  - Allegation Management Strategy Meeting
  - Use of Suspension
  - Review Allegation Management Strategy Meeting
  - Resignations and Settlement Agreements
  - Record Keeping
  - Action following a Criminal Investigation or Prosecution
  - Action on Conclusion of a Case including Referral to DBS or Regulatory Bodies
  - Appendices
  

18. Diverse Safeguarding Information

• 18.1

  Supporting Online safety
  
• 18.2

  Dangerous Dogs
  
• 18.3

  Concealed Pregnancy
  
• 18.4

  Private Fostering
  - Introduction
  - Definition
  - Notifications to the Local Authority
  - Action to be Taken on Receipt of Notification
  - Initial Visit to Private Foster Carers
  - Assessment of Private Foster Carers
  - Financial Support
  - Imposing Requirements on Private Foster Carers
  - Prohibition and Disqualification
  - Visits to the Private Foster Home - Frequency, Purpose and Records
  - Review of Private Foster Carers
  - Local Authority Foster Carers who Privately Foster
  - After the Private Fostering Arrangement Ends
  - Monitoring