Safeguarding London's Children conference - open for bookings
Safeguarding children whose parents have mental health problems or misuse substances
Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, London, SW1P 3EE
This is a conference for professionals, elected members and volunteers in all agencies who have specific responsibilities for safeguarding London’s children, and supporting them and their families. Please follow the links below to download the conference programme and booking form:
London Board annual conference 2008 - programme
London Board annual conference 2008 - booking form
The conference aims to support better safeguarding of London’s children by showcasing good practice and sharing resources, with a particular focus on the needs of children whose parents have mental health problems or misuse substances.
The conference is a forum to exchange ideas and information for improving multi-agency child protection practice. The morning plenaries will outline the current systems operating to safeguard children affected by parental mental health problems and the afternoon will focus on current issues around parental substance misuse, with contributions from both leading practitioners and service users. In between these plenary sessions, a choice of seminars will encourage delegates to explore specific issues related to both these topics in greater depth, and outline current examples of good practice from London and elsewhere.
£150 (+ £26.25 vat) including lunch and refreshments
£100 (+ £17.50 vat) for voluntary organisations only
London Board annual conference 2008 - programme
London Board annual conference 2008 - booking form
October Child Sexual Abuse seminar - presentations online
All presentations and handouts from October's child sexual abuse seminar are now available to download via the links below:
Welcome and introduction (Tink Palmer)
An exemplar guidance flow diagram (Dr PWD Meerstadt)
Usual and less usual presentations of CSA (Dr Julia Hale)
September Child Sexual Abuse seminar - presentation online
Stephen Smallbone's presentation from September's child sexual abuse seminar is now available to download from the link below:
Preventing Child Sexual Abuse: Evidence, theory, policy and practice (Stephen Smallbone)
We anticipate posting a full report of the seminar online shortly - watch this space for details.
Child sexual abuse conference - papers now available
The London Safeguarding Children Board's 2008 summer conference, which focussed on safeguarding children at risk of sexual abuse, took place at the British Library on Wednesday June 18th. With presentations that highlighted the latest developments and emerging good practice from both the UK and abroad, the event was a great success and a number of presentations and supporting material are now available to download from the link below:
It is anticipated that additional papers will be made available via this link shortly, so watch this space for updates!
LSCB self-assessment governance tool and effective practice case studies now available to download
A voluntary Challenge and Improvement Tool for LSCBs is now available to download from http://www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/socialcare/safeguarding/lscb/, together with two chapters of material provided by LSCBs as examples of their effective local practice.
The Challenge and Improvement Tool focuses on effective governance as a starting point for establishing strong relationships, clear accountability and transparency of operation and purpose. LSCBs may wish to adapt the tool to their specific context or stage of development.
The first chapter of effective practice exemplars consists of 13 case studies covering areas highlighted in Local Safeguarding Children Boards: A Review of Progress (June 2007), ranging from addressing local governance, to engaging effectively with partners, to developing local procedures. The second set of 8 case studies focus on two areas: how the child protection system can intervene to safeguard children and young people at risk of becoming involved in gang activity; and how local services identify and safeguard sexually exploited young people.
Competence Matters - a multi agency safeguarding children training framework for London
Competence Matters offers a framework for a London-wide comprehensive safeguarding children training programme. Used to inform local Safeguarding training strategies, it will provide a framework for a programme based on each London borough’s individual training needs. Please follow the link below to download a copy:
Competence Matters - a multi agency safeguarding children training framework for London
This document is intended to assist Children’s Trusts and/or Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) Training Officers and Sub-Committees with the planning, commissioning and delivery of a comprehensive safeguarding children training programme. LSCB partners, and those with responsibility for staff learning and development within LSCB member agencies will also need to be familiar with this framework.
It is not intended that Children’s Trusts or LSCBs should attempt to adopt everything within this document – rather, local areas should use this as a framework around which to base their own training programmes.
