Local Safeguarding Case Study

The death of Victoria Climbie in February 2000 prompted a large and thorough review of UK child protection services, led by Lord Laming. This highlighted the importance of multi-agency working and information sharing in order to protect children and prevent them from coming to harm. As a result, a number of reforms came about as recommended in various publications and updated legislation. Organisations, both paid and unpaid, are joining together to work more cooperatively towards a preventative and early intervention agenda.

Law and guidance regulate the way you should work with children in your childcare setting to support and encourage their well-being and safeguard them from abuse and maltreatment. Legislation provides a comprehensive instruction on what must be attained in respect to child protection and safeguarding. Whereas Legal guidance is more precise and provides details on how the law ought to be applied and fulfilled in early years settings and services. Laws and statutory regulation are compulsory and should reinforce policies and procedures that are used in your setting.

The report made 108 ‘sweeping recommendations’ (Laming, 2003) about modifications that were needed in the child protection system as a response to the errors made by professionals who had accountability for Victoria’s care. These involved the creation of a children and families board, a children’s commissioner, new local authorities management boards and the creation of a national children’s database. The thrust of the report was to address the integration of children’s services, bringing the relevant sections of the professional sector together to improve co-ordination and communication as that would directly lead to effective collaboration.

Current legislation is the result of The children Act 1989 which was brought in to ensure that all people who work with children worked together and was clear about their responsibility’s and knew how to act if allegations of child abuse were made.Following the death of Victoria Climbie in the year 2000 an independent inquiry highlighted many problems with how reports of neglect and child abuse were dealt with and found that vulnerable people in society were not being safeguarded.The Laming report led to the governments Every Child Matters paper and The Children Act 2004. In the last year this has now been renamed Every

Following the death of Peter Connelly (baby P), a 17 month old baby who died in London after sustaining more than 50 injuries, over an eight month period. The child protection services and other agencies widely failed him which lead to the introduction of The Childcare Act 2006. This was the first law fully pledged to the care of early years. This introduced Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) which sets standards for the learning, development and care of children from birth to five years old. All schools and Ofsted register providers adhere to the guidelines set in the EYFS.

The importance of interagency working in the safeguarding and protection of children in the UK

The structural changes involved making the post of a director of children’s services in council who would be in charge for the safety of all children in their area. Furthermore, there an assessment framework that was created so practitioners such as doctors and expects in the health, education and the police could instigate better support for families not thought and believe to reach child protection thresholds. The local safeguarding children boards were also arrangement by taking on the duties for multi-agency child protection training and investigating the causes of deaths and incidents of serious harm that could been preventable in their area. This means that after the case of Victoria Climbie death, there were a new model to work in all

Serious Case Reviews are the cases where abuse or neglect is known or believed to be a factor in the death of a child or child’s death is suspected to be suicide. According to Local safeguarding children boards regulations 2006, regulation 5 these cases must be reviewed.

Cases reviewed as the trial progressed revealed children who had suffered continuous sexual and physical abuse or neglect in foster homes known to be inadequate by the Department. Cases included that of sexual abuse of young girls by their foster fathers, and that of a young girl

A serious case review SCR take place after a child dies or is seriously injured and abuse or neglect, this will be conducted by the local safeguarding children board LSCB for example they will bring to gathers all the organisations involved in the case including children social care the police, health and education, each organisations will be conduct an independent inquiry into their management of the case and make recommendations for future improvements, for example to take lesions that can help prevent similar incidents from happening in the future, the findings from serious case reviews are published in a final report, which then used as part process for sharing lessons learnt from the situations, for example the final report will provide

Following the Special Commission of Inquiry into Child Protection Services in New South Wales the government responded with a five-year action plan called keep them safe: a shared approach to child wellbeing. This plan had a focus on prevention and early intervention and establishing new referral and reporting arrangements that

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welfare and safety and protection against the risk of harm. Thus, safeguarding is an act established

"This case has once again raised concerns about how high-profile cases such as this have been investigated by the CPS

It is the right of all those who are living in the urban centers to be assured of their security. Considering that the urban centers are the hub of the economic growth, it becomes more sensitive to consider the security situation in the area. At times it becomes very hard or even impractical for one person to influence the economic decisions of another person. However, the government agencies also have a responsibility to make sure that those who opt to move from the rural areas to the urban areas have peace and security. It is true that over the previous times, the case of an increase in the level of crimes in the urban areas has been escalating. The urban centers have become the breeding ground for the criminals to advance their agenda of robbing from people. Even though the government may invest more on the security through foreign missions, there is the need the need to get seized of the issue of insecurity and crimes in the urban centers. It reaches a point where the role played by the security agencies becomes oblivious. Considering that in the past the cases of crimes were few, it means that the current changes in the security status can be attributed to the structural changes that have come up as a result of the growth in the urban centers. The fast rate at which cities are