safeguarding
- attendance and safeguarding (3)
- child on child sexual violence and sexual harassment (2)
- child protection (19)
- education safeguarding training and support (17)
- emergency planning (2)
- environmental health (3)
- health and safety in education (6)
- management of safeguarding (10)
- managing allegations (4)
- MASH (multi-agency safeguarding hub) (4)
- safer recruitment (9)
Children who are cared for on a full-time basis by people who are not direct relatives are in a private fostering arrangement.
A private fostering arrangement is essentially one that is made, without the involvement of a local authority, for the care of a child under the age of 16 (under 18 if disabled) by someone other than a parent or close relative for 28 days or more.
Private foster carers may be from the extended family, such as a cousin or great aunt. However, a person who is a relative such as a grandparent, brother, sister, uncle or aunt (whether of the full or half blood or by marriage) or step-parent will not be a private foster carer.
If you know of a child in this situation, the law says you must notify the local authority so they can make sure the person caring for the child can receive information, support and advice and that the child is safe. Please call us if you are caring for, or you know anyone who is caring for someone else’s child on 0121 788 4300 or visit https://bit.ly/2krupeZ for more information.
Raquel da Silva is a researcher at the University of Birmingham. She is conducting a research project on ‘Prevent in Primary Schools’ and is asking educators in Primary schools in the West Midlands to complete an online survey. For more information, please see below.
The revised Keeping Children Safe in Education (2018) is statutory from 3rd September 2018. Please see Link 1 below.
We have revised the child protection policy, safeguarding policy and behaviour policy to reflect the changes; these will be uploaded onto the new safeguarding website which is currently being developed by the IT team. They should be available by the end of the week at the link below (Link 2). The slide attached below presents a site map of the new website.
The managing allegations policy and the safer recruitment policy have been updated and will be presented to the union policy group during September; they will then be made available. The whistleblowing and code of conduct policies remain unchanged.
The education safeguarding strategy has now been finalised and will be uploaded to the safeguarding website. This sets out how we will work with all Solihull schools on safeguarding in education.
Please see letter from Phil Leivers, Assistant Director of Education and follow the link below.
Safeguarding policy guidance for eduction written for education providers in Solihull by Solihull Education Improvement Service
