child protection
Solihull Children’s Social Work dispute resolution (also known as escalation) process for education
Preventing children and young people being drawn into extremism.
The annual DSL conference days (8.30 am – 4 pm) are to be held at Sans Souci on Monday 30 September 2019, Monday 7 October 2019, and at Grace Academy on Thursday 24 October 2019.
The annual governor safeguarding conference is at Solihull School on Wednesday 9 October 2019 at 6.30 pm.
Please confirm which day you wish to attend to inset@solihull.gov.uk.
Thank you.
Lorraine Lord, Senior Education Safeguarding Officer
Dear Headteacher
KSCIE 2019
Please find attached the link to the revised KCSIE (2019). https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keeping-children-safe-in-education–2
The detail on the substantive changes is listed in Appendix H, page 108 of KCSIE (2019).
Key points are:-
- Upskirting (page 10 paragraph 27 and page 89).
- Changes to new local arrangements under the new local safeguarding children partnership. An update on this will take place at the Designated Education Safeguarding Lead’s conferences.
The revised model child protection policy is available at https://www.solgrid.org.uk/education/safeguarding/child-protection/.
The revised model safeguarding policy is available at https://www.solgrid.org.uk/education/safeguarding/.
Lorraine Lord
Senior Education Safeguarding Officer
Dear headteacher
We are looking to appoint school-based designated safeguarding leads to our multi-agency safeguarding hub (MASH) to undertake the role of education safeguarding representative across five days per week. Ideally, up to five people who will undertake the role on different days. There is currently no funding available for the post, however it is an excellent continuing professional development opportunity for practicing designated safeguarding leads in school.
The post will require the following skills and knowledge:
- Liaison with designated safeguarding leads in schools to gain information to inform joint safeguarding activity around a child or family
- Facilitation of good practice and partnership working, being the key link between education settings and the MASH
- Ability to engage in professional dialogue with a range of professionals across a range of agencies in order to inform the multi-agency risk assessment in the MASH
- Ability to search data bases, collect and analyse information to add to the multi-agency risk assessment in the MASH
- Maintaining a good understanding of current education safeguarding legislation and statutory procedures
- Attending strategy meetings on behalf of the relevant education setting (if they are unable to attend) and contribute to the decision-making process with a sound rational.
- Taking part in improvement activity within the MASH, eg: reviewing cases and practice, and sharing this
Anyone interested in this post should contact the education safeguarding administrator on 0121 704 6616 or educationsafeguarding@solihull.gov.uk.
Lorraine Lord
Senior education safeguarding officer
