Children 2018 Summary of Changes July 2018 Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018 A guide to interagency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children Status of Guidance ID: 748610
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Working Together to
Safeguard Children 2018
Summary of ChangesJuly 2018Slide2
Working Together
to Safeguard Children 2018
A guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children
Status of Guidance
WT18 applies to all agencies and professionals who work with children
WT18 replaces WT15 and is statutory guidance. It was published on 4
th
July 2018
Statutory Transitional Guidance and Statutory Framework Guidance published
Updated GDPR and Information Sharing Guidance also published Slide3
Working Together
to Safeguard Children 2018
A guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children
Headlines
Importance of Early Help. Also describes referral and assessment processes
WT18 sets out:
Strengthened responsibilities of agencies to safeguard children
New multi-agency safeguarding arrangements to replace LSCB’s
New process for local and national practice reviews
Child Death Review duties Slide4
Working Together
to Safeguard Children 2018
A guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children
Chapter One – Assessing Need and Providing Help
Chapter Includes:
•
Additions
to early help
focus include: gangs and organised crime groups, missing, drug and alcohol abuse, radicalisation, trafficking
and exploitation• Guidance about information sharing and GDPR•
Assessment of disabled children, Young Carers and young people in secure youth establishments added
•
Emphasis
on
contextual
safeguarding
•
Specific
health responsibilities added
to strategy discussion
guidance
•
Responsibility
moving from LSCB’s to safeguarding partners
to
monitor effectiveness
of arrangementsSlide5
Working Together
to Safeguard Children 2018
A guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children
Chapter Two – Organisational Responsibilities
Chapter Includes:
• Section 11 duties for all agencies are
unchanged
•
Emphasis on guidance applying in its entirety to all schools
• Section added about responsibility of CCG to ensure provision of designated health professionals• Children’s Homes, MAPPA and
sports clubs and associations added to Section 11 duty• Safeguarding responsibilities emphasised for all professionals
working in voluntary
, charity, social enterprise and faith based
organisationsSlide6
Working Together
to Safeguard Children 2018
A guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children
Chapter Three – Multi-agency Safeguarding Arrangements
Chapter Includes
:
• S
tatutory
safeguarding partners are the Local Authority, Police and
Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)•
The partners have full and equal responsibility to establish effective safeguarding arrangements•
Organisations
named as
Relevant
Agencies – including all schools
are
required to
cooperate with
the
arrangements
•
New
arrangements must be published and be
in place by
September 2019,
current arrangements continue until then
•
New
arrangements will
replace
current safeguarding board
arrangementsSlide7
Working Together
to Safeguard Children 2018
A guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children
Chapter Four – Improving Child Protection and Safeguarding Practice
Chapter Includes:
•
New
National Child Safeguarding Review Panel
has been established. Panel will receive all serious incident notifications from the local
authority• The panel will identify cases which raise issues of national significance
to be reviewed as national child safeguarding practice reviews•
Safeguarding
partners are responsible for identifying and
commissioning
local
reviews
•
An
initial
(15 day)
rapid
review
will be undertaken on all
casesSlide8
Working Together
to Safeguard Children 2018
A guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children
Chapter Five – Child Death Reviews
Chapter Includes:
•
Local Authority and CCG
are the
statutory Child Death Review Partners• The partners are responsible for
establishing child death review arrangements – these can be based on current child death
overview arrangements• Our current arrangements are on a pan Merseyside basis and
this
can continue
•
Current
arrangements continue until replaced by new
arrangements which must
be in place by
September
2019Slide9
Working Together
to Safeguard Children 2018
A guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children
Agencies and Professionals Should:
•
Familiarise themselves with the new Guidance
•
Be aware of changes from LSCB’s to new multi-agency safeguarding arrangements – and timetable
• Be aware of the new arrangements for local and national reviews (and aware that current SCR’s continue until WSCB replaced)• Be aware of new local Child Death Review arrangements (when published)
Full guidance, summary and more information:
https://www.wirralsafeguarding.co.uk/working-together-to-safeguard-children-2018/