Information Sharing

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Information Sharing Common Assessment Framework
(CAF) ContactPoint Independent Safeguarding
Authority (ISA) Alice Redfearn Children and
Young Peoples Directorate Suffolk County
Council 07841 939820 alice.redfearn_at_cexec.suffolkc
c.gov.uk
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Information Sharing

• Suffolk Information Sharing Charter
• Suffolk information sharing credit cards
• Online information sharing apply to
  www.suffolk.gov.uk/caf for username password
• New guidance published on www.ecm.gov.uk/informati
  onsharing
• Includes Information Sharing
• Guidance for practitioners and managers
• Pocket guide
• Case examples
• Further guidance on legal issues
• Posters
• Endorsements and statements

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Common Assessment Framework (CAF)

• Early identification and intervention model to
  support children, young people and their
  families.
• Tool to support information sharing.
• Consensual
• Empowering for families

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Current CAF situation

• Fully implemented across 18 community clusters
• Currently based on panel system moving towards
  Team around the Child as part of the integrated
  working agenda
• Training and development is being coordinated by
  Alice Redfearn with the Cluster Development
  Coordinators

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ContactPoint

• National database with contact details of all
  children aged 0-18years in England
• Contact details of parent/carers, universal
  services and other professionals working with
  each child
• No case or assessment information
• Enabled by Children Act 2004, Section 12
• Implementation in Suffolk from late 2009

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Information held
INDICATORS
BASIC DEMOGRAPHICS
ADDITIONAL INVOLVEMENT examples
CAF Indicator
Youth Worker Contact Details
Childs Name
Social Worker Contact Details
Lead Professional Contact Details
Gender
Unique Identifier
SENCO Contact Details
Date of Birth
Address
Parent(s)/Carer(s) Contact Details
ContactPoint will not hold case data or
assessment information
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Who will have access?

• Authorised practitioners in childrens services
• Role based access controls
• Security checked - including enhanced Criminal
  Records Bureau (CRB) clearance, which is subject
  to 3 year renewal.
• Training to include
• safe and secure use of Contactpoint
• Data Protection Act and Human Rights Act
• Audit trail

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When will it happen?

• Implementation in Suffolk end of June 2009
• Roll-out to professionals from January 2010

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Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA)
Vetting and Barring Scheme

• New, improved checking and monitoring scheme
  aiming to prevent unsuitable people from working
  or volunteering with children and/or vulnerable
  adults.
• The Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) is a
  new Non Departmental Public Body (NDPB) which
  will decide who is barred from working with
  these groups.
• Sponsored by the Home Office and supported by
  DCSF and DH.

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What is the Vetting Barring Scheme?

• New, improved checking and monitoring scheme
  aiming to prevent unsuitable people from working
  or volunteering with children and/or vulnerable
  adults.
• The Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) is a
  new Non Departmental Public Body (NDPB) which
  will decide who is barred from working with
  these groups.
• Sponsored by the Home Office and supported by
  DCSF and DH.

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Highlights

• Core purpose to prevent unsuitable people from
  working with children and vulnerable adults
• The ISA will play a major part in reforming
  current vetting and barring practices by barring
  individuals who pose a risk to vulnerable
  groups.
• but employers retain their responsibilities for
  ensuring safe recruitment and employment
  practices.

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Who does the scheme extend to?

• Paid workers
• Volunteers
• Current workforce
• Including workers from overseas

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What is regulated activity?

• Involves contact with children or vulnerable
  adults and is
• of a specified nature (e.g. teaching, training,
  care, supervision, advice, treatment or
  transport) on a frequent, intensive and/or
  overnight basis.OR
• in a specified place (e.g. schools, care homes,
  Young Offenders Institutions, etc), frequently
  or intensively.
• fostering and childcare or
• a defined position of responsibility (e.g. school
  governor, director of social services, trustees
  of certain charities).
• Frequent 1 occasion a month or more. Intensive
  3 or more occasions in any 30 day period

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What regulated activity means

• Duties and responsibilities under regulated
  activity, where an organisation is providing the
  activity
• A barred individual must not undertake regulated
  activity.
• To undertake regulated activity an individual
  must be ISA-registered.
• An employer must not engage in regulated activity
  a barred person or a person who is not
  ISA-registered.
• An employer must check that a prospective
  employee who is in regulated activity is
  ISA-registered.

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When does it start?

• The ISA Scheme goes live on 12 October 2009.
• New entrants to the workforce those moving jobs
  will be the first to go through the scheme.
• Members of the existing workforce will be phased
  into the scheme over a five year period.

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What will it cost?

• Individuals in paid employment will pay 64 when
  applying for registration with the ISA Scheme.
• There is no discount on this one-off application
  fee but in most cases a CRB Enhanced Disclosure
  will be included in the initial registration
  process.
• Those involved only in unpaid voluntary activity
  will pay no application fee.

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Will this replace the CRB?

• No the ISA Scheme is a mandatory addition to
  current safeguarding systems, not a replacement.
• Statutory requirements for CRB checks in certain
  sectors will remain.
• The ISA will filter out those who pose an obvious
  risk.
• ISA registration does not guarantee that an
  individual has a clean criminal record but that
  it has been checked by the ISA, which does not
  consider it to mean the individual should be
  barred.

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More Information

• Information Sharing www.ecm.gov.uk/informationshar
  ing
• CAF www.suffolk.gov.uk/CAF and www.ecm.gov.uk/caf
  
• e-mail caf_at_cyp.suffolkcc.gov.uk
• ContactPoint www.suffolk.gov.uk/contactpoint and
  www.ecm.gov.uk/contactpoint
• e-mail contactpoint_at_cyp.suffolkcc.gov.uk
• Vetting and Barring www.isa-gov.org
• FREE Online training for CAF, Information Sharing
  and Safeguarding from www.suffolk.gov.uk/caf or
  if all else fails, phone me on 07841 939820!