2.2 Amendments
May 2016
| Updated Chapters | |
| Chapter Name | Change |
| Guidance in relation to Managing Allegations against Staff, Carers and Volunteers | Risk Assessment for Suspension Pro forma, Risk by Association Employee Assessment - Pro Forma and Summary of Child Protection Allegation/Concern to be kept on Personnel File links were updated to this chapter. |
| Recognition of Significant Harm | This chapter has been updated to include information regarding child sexual abuse and the exploitation of children and young people. |
| Safeguarding Children and Young People from Sexual Exploitation | This chapter was updated and references to the CSE Risk Assessment tool were added. |
| Children Displaying Harmful Sexual Behaviour | This chapter was updated to include information on the Surrey Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC). |
| Domestic Abuse | This chapter was significantly updated to include a new Section 7, Serious Crime Act 2015 - Coercive and Controlling Behaviour. |
| Reviewing Deaths of All Children - Role of the Child Death Overview Panel | This chapter now includes information on the role and functions of the Child Death Overview Panel (CDOP). Links to the Child Death Notification forms were also added to it. |
| Local Contact Details | Contact details have been updated. |
| New Chapters and Features | |
| Chapter Name | Details |
| Complex (Organised or Multiple) Abuse | This chapter was refreshed. |
| Practice guidance: Working with Hostile, Non-Compliant Clients who use Disguised Compliance within the Context of Safeguarding Children | This chapter was added to the manual and should be read in its entirety. |
| Unexpected Child Deaths | This chapter was significantly updated and should be re-read. |
| Next update: November 2016 |
Archive
December 2015
| Updated Chapters | |
| Chapter Name | Change |
| A Multi-agency Protocol for the Management of Actual or Suspected bruising in Infants who are Not Independently Mobile | This chapter was added to the manual replacing the previous procedure - 'Bruising in Children who are Not Independently Mobile (NIM)'. |
October 2015
| Updated Chapters | |
| Chapter Name | Change |
| Information Sharing | This chapter has been updated in regard to Information sharing: Advice for practitioners providing safeguarding services to children, young people, parents and carers (March 2015). |
| Safeguarding Children and Young People from Sexual Exploitation | This chapter has been updated and references to the CSE Risk Assessment tool have been added. |
| Children Displaying Harmful Sexual Behaviour | This chapter has been updated to include the use of the internet and abusive images in Section 2, Definition and an additional bullet point in Section 5, Procedure “The risks to other children /young people, if the child who has (allegedly) sexually harmed another lives in a foster/residential/boarding or other shared environment”. |
| Forced Marriage | This chapter has been updated to provide a link to Forced Marriage Protection Orders. |
| Historical Abuse Allegations | This chapter has been reviewed for this latest edition of the manual. |
| Children Missing from Care and Home | The text has been updated in Sections 6.7, Longer and Significant Absences and Incidents of Specific Concern; Section 9, When an Absent / Missing Person is Located or Returns and Section 11, Monitoring of Missing Children Data in line with national guidance. |
| Trafficked and Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children | A number of new national developments such as the Modern Slavery Act 2015 have been incorporated in the update of this chapter and guidance about both trafficked and unaccompanied children has been clarified. The chapter should be read in full. |
| Children Visiting Psychiatric Wards and Special Hospitals | This chapter has been updated in line with the revised Mental Health Act Code of Practice January 2015 chapter 11 (implemented April 2015), which gives guidance on the visiting of psychiatric patients by children. |
| Learning and Improvement Framework | This chapter has been updated in line with Working Together to Safeguard Children 2015. |
| Local Contact Details | Contact details have been updated. |
| New Chapters and Features | |
| Chapter Name | Details |
| Children Missing Education | This chapter has been added to the manual. |
| E-Safety | This chapter has been added to the manual. |
March 2015
| Updated Chapters | |
| Chapter Name | Change |
| Allegations Against Staff, Carers and Volunteers | A good practice guidance ‘Raising Concerns at Work: Whistle blowing Guidance for Workers and Employers in Health and Social Care (2014)’ link has been added to Section 11, Whistle-Blowing. |
| Surrey Early Help Multi-Agency Levels of Need | This chapter has been updated as new linked documents replaced previous versions. |
| Contacts and Referrals | This chapter has been updated as new links to the updated Multi Agency Referral Form have been added. A new link and references to the Escalation Policy have been added in Section 1. |
| Assessment | This chapter has been updated in Section 3, Developing a Clear Analysis with a link to good practice guidance “Working with Foreign Authorities: Child Protection Cases and Care Orders Departmental advice for local authorities, social workers, service managers and children’s services lawyers” (July 2014). |
| Strategy Discussions and Section 47 Enquiries | This chapter has been updated with a link to the SSCB leaflet for families in Sections 11, Seeing and Interviewing the Child and 13, Parental Involvement and Consent. |
| Initial Child Protection Conferences | Links have been added in Section 6, Enabling Parental Participation and Section 12, Enabling Children's Participation to the SSCB information leaflets for children and young people and for families. |
| Safeguarding Children and Young People from Sexual Exploitation | A flowchart has been added through a link in Section 9, Multi-Agency involvement to assist practitioners. |
| Pre-birth Child Protection Procedure | This chapter has been reviewed and revised for the March 2015 edition of the manual. |
| Self-Harm and Suicidal Behaviour | This chapter has been updated and should be read in full. |
| Local Contact Details | Contact details have been updated. |
| New Chapters and Features | |
| Chapter Name | Details |
| Inter-Agency Escalation Policy and Procedure | This chapter sets out how to resolve professional disagreements in work relating to the safety of children. |
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