GOVERNOR TRAINING

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GOVERNOR TRAINING

• CHILD PROTECTION
• Module 1 - Framework for Safeguarding

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Legislation

• Children Act 1989
• Education Act 1996
• Schools Standards Framework Act 1998
• Education Act 2002

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Government Guidance

• Working Together 1999
• DfEE Circular 10/95 - Revised in 2004
• DfEE Circular 10/98
• DfES 242/2002
• Assessment Framework 2000

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Reviews and Practice Guidance

• Joint Inspectors Safeguarding Report
• Ofsted Summary
• The Laming Report
• DoH What to do if
• Keeping Children Safe
• Every Child Matters

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Safeguarding Report(Ofsted Summary)

• Key Points
• Governors CP Training patchy
• CP Knowledge from Critical Incidents
• Differing Thresholds for Referral
• Varied understanding of ACPCs
• Unclear Information Sharing Protocols

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Inquiries into Child Deaths

• Victoria Climbie
• 2nd November 1991 25th February 2000
• Lauren Wright
• 16th July 1993 6th May 2000

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• Victoria Climbie
• Report by Lord Laming
• (108 Recommendations)
• Green Paper
• Every Child Matters

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• Lauren Wright
• Section 175 Education Act 2002

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Duties of Governing bodies in relation to the
welfare of children

• The Governing Body of a maintained school shall
  make arrangements for ensuring that their
  functions relating to the conduct of the school
  are exercised with a view to safeguarding and
  promoting the welfare of children who are pupils
  at their school.
  Section 175(2) Education Act 2002

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• ... the body mentioned in subsection 2 SHALL,
  in considering what arrangements are required to
  be made by them under that subsection, have
  regard to any guidance given from time to time
  (in relation to England) by the Secretary of
  State.....
  Section 175(4) Education Act 2002

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Safeguarding What does safeguarding mean for
you in your role as a governor?

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Significant Harm

• This concept was introduced by the Children Act
  1989 as the threshold for intervention in family
  life for the protection of children.

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• harm ill treatment or the impairment of health
  or development
• development physical, intellectual,
  emotional, social or behavioural development
• health physical or mental health
• Ill treatment includes sexual abuse and forms
  of ill treatment which are not physical

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Threshold for Significant HarmThere is no
absolute criteria on which to rely

• Significant harm can be caused by one traumatic
  event or a compilation of events that interrupt,
  change or damage the childs physical or
  psychological development.

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• It is necessary to consider
• The severity of ill treatment, the degree and
  extent of physical harm, the duration and
  frequency of abuse and neglect, the extent of
  pre-meditation and the degree of threat and
  coercion, sadism and bizarre or unusual elements
  in child sexual abuse.
• Diocese of Chichester

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CATEGORIES OF ABUSE

• Physical
• Sexual
• Emotional
• Neglect

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Physical Abuse

• May involve
• Hitting, shaking, throwing, poisoning, burning
• or scalding, drowning, suffocating
• Otherwise causing physical harm to a child.
• Factitious illness by proxy

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Sexual Abuse

• Forcing or enticing a child or young person to
  take part in sexual activities, whether or not
  the child is aware.
• Physical contact, including penetrative or
  non-penetrative acts.
• Non-physical contact e.g. looking at or
  involvement in making pornographic material,
  watching sexual activity, encouraging to behave
  in sexually inappropriate ways.

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Emotional Abuse

• The Persistent emotional ill-treatment of a
  child such as to cause severe and persistent
  adverse effects on childs emotional
  development.
• Involved in all types of ill-treatment, but may
  occur alone.

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Emotional Abuse

• May involve
• conveying to children they are worthless or
  unloved, inadequate, or not valued.
• Age or developmentally inappropriate
  expectations.
• Causing children frequently to feel frightened or
  in danger.
• Exploitation or corruption.

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Neglect

• Persistent failure to meet a childs basic
  physical and/or psychological needs, likely to
  result in the serious impairment of the childs
  health or development.

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NeglectMay involve

• Failing to provide adequate food, shelter and
  clothing
• Failing to protect a child from physical harm or
  danger
• Failing to ensure access to appropriate medical
  care or treatment
• Neglect of, or unresponsiveness to, a childs
  basic emotional needs

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Child in NeedThis concept was introduced by
the Children Act 1989. Each Authority should
safeguard and promote the welfare of children in
their area who are

• Unlikely to reach or maintain a satisfactory
  level of health or development, or
• Health development will be significantly
  impaired without the provision of services