National safeguarding website

The Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP) has developed a support programme and information pack Safeguarding and Promoting the Welfare of Children and Young People designed to assist Strategic Health Authority Children’s Safeguarding Leads and CSIP Regional Change Agents to deliver workshops with a regional focus on:

• leadership
• commissioning
• governance arrangements, and
• assurance frameworks (identifying the risks and controls).

The programme is designed to:

• enable newly re-configured NHS organisations to meet their statutory responsibility in safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
• help NHS organisations to be competent to contribute fully to their Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB), and
• support SHAs specifically, to consider their statutory role in engaging with LSCBs but also their leadership and performance role in relation to NHS Trusts.

Information pack

Click on the links below to view and download the resources from the information pack

PowerPoint Presentations

• Aims of the Session
• Context
• Procedures for Managing Allegations Against People Who Work with Children – Presentations by Jane Appleby
• Who’s There to Help

Policy Documents (extracts or links)

• Statutory Guidance on Making Arrangements to Safeguard and Promote the Welfare of Children Under Section 11 of the Children Act 2004

Working Together to Safeguard Children (2006)

• Agencies Responsibilities (Chapter 2)
• Child Death Review Process & Rapid Response (Chapter 7)
• Chapter 8 Serious Case Reviews
• Procedures for Managing Allegations/Safer Recruitment (Appendix 5)
• Role of Local Safeguarding Children’s Board
• National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services: Core Standard 5
• Joint Statement – The Duties of Doctors and Other Health Professionals (2007)

Other Resources

• Inter-Collegiate Roles and Competencies for Health Care Staff (2006)
• NSCAN Professional Core Competencies for Nurses specialising in Safeguarding Children
• Leadership for Influence: Leading Safeguarding Children Practice

• SAIF (Safeguarding Children and Young People Support and Information Forum) – A Secure web-based information and discussion forum for named and designated health professionals: Information about the website and how to apply
• Case Studies
• Allegations Against People Working with Children: Case Studies
• Further Reading