Safe Network launch presentations

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Welcome To the Launch of the National
Safeguarding Unit for the Third Sector Friday
5th June 2009
www.safenetwork.org.uk
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Chair Andrew Flanagan chief executive

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Baroness Delyth Morgan Parliamentary
Under-Secretary of State for Children, Young
People and Families
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John Brownlow Safe Network director
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Safe Network A Model of Engagement
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Umbrella / infrastructure bodies
Arts, Culture Leisure
Community Voluntary groups
Third Sector
Local Networks
Social enterprises
Regional Development Managers
Trustees
LSCBs
Core Team
Paid staff
Key Stakeholders
Key Stakeholders
Charities
WEBSITE
(ISA/CWDC)
E.g. Grant Makers National Membership Groups
Helpline
Faith Groups
Volunteers
Delivery Partners
Key Audiences
Black, Minority Ethnic groups
Children young people
Parents carers
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• Safeguarding policies and procedures
• Raising awareness
• Safer recruitment
• Anti-bullying policies
• Reducing avoidable accidents
• Information for parents

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• Information
• Standards
• Training materials

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• Addressing diversity
• Reaching disadvantaged groups
• Being a voice for the sector
• Integrated working

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Kellie Ann Fitzgerald Barking Dagenham
LSCB business manager
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Roundtable discussion
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FilmChildrens views about staying safe
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Feedback
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Lunch
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Professor Tanya Byron
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Sally Mehta Parentline Plus
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How it all began

• The tragic death of Maria Colwell in 1974
  affected the public at large.
• Led to numerous self help groups emerging in
  1970s for three main reasons
• Community concern for child abuse
• Self Awareness for parents under stress
• Publicity about parent self-help movements in UK

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Select Committee Report on Violence in the Family
1977

• Key Recommendation
• We recommend that parents should be encouraged
  to form groups where parents who are at all
  anxious about the way in which they are bringing
  up their children can meet and preferably also
  provide some regular telephone support.

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What do parents ask us?

• Parents contact us through various channels a
  24 hour helpline, SMS, websites and message
  boards and local authority referral.
• Parents safeguarding queries can be divided into
  three main types
• Fears and concerns about harming their own
  children
• Concerns over a third party e.g. neighbour,
  friend, non-resident parent, step parent harming
  their children
• General safeguarding issues e.g. age appropriate
  behaviour, baby sitting rules.

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Type of Abuse reported
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Safeguarding issues for Parentline Plus

• Preserving the safe space
• Confidentiality
• Relationship to statutory providers and
  government guidance
• Balancing the needs of the parent and the child
  within the safeguarding network
• National vs local where do we fit?

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How can safe network help?

• Offer clarity about the differences between
  voluntary and statutory roles in safeguarding
  children
• Recognise and support the crucial role the third
  sector fulfils for parents as a non-threatening
  place to explore concerns.
• Support third sector with robust procedures and
  training. And so, give confidence to balance
  threshold of confidentiality and safeguarding
• Independent quality assurance mark.

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Keith Bradbrook Deputy Director of NSPCC
communications
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www.safenetwork.org.uk
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Research

• Third Sector is a big place!
• Parents
• Personas

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Children at the heart!
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Looking to deliver

• Knowledge

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Looking to deliver

• Knowledge
• Access

Easy access to information sources throughout the
site
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Looking to deliver

• Knowledge
• Access
• Interaction

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Looking to deliver

• Knowledge
• Access
• Interaction
• Resources

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www.safenetwork.org.uk
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Be adaptable!

• Learn and refine
• Live and breathe
• Phase 2 summer 09

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Please

• get involved!

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• The Challenge of Partnership Working
• Maggie Jones
• Chief Executive Children England

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Safe Network LaunchKey Messages

• The challenges are many and varied and mostly
  well known to us
• The solutions are also known they need to be put
  into practice
• The potential rewards are huge
• Children young people, parents and carers are
  right to demand the best from us all

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Safe Network LaunchChallenges

• We have different aims and motivations
• Context and environment
• History and the way we do things
• Priorities and thresholds

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Safe Network Launch Challenges

• Resources
• Language
• Responsibilities and status
• Defensiveness
• Fear

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• and not one of those, nor even all of them
  together, provides a good enough reason for us
  not to build the partnerships we need to keep
  children and young people safe and happy.

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• We are trying to model the solutions right from
  the start
• Respect for existing third sector networks,
  relationships and expertise
• Supporting local groups and communities to help
  themselves
• Acknowledgement of and resources to build on good
  practice, wherever it is found.

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Safe Network LaunchLeap the Barriers

• It is possible to
• Respect and truly value the different roles we
  play in children and young peoples lives
• Be flexible and sensitive one size wont fit all
• Change alongside the children and young people
  we serve
• Be consistent, with the young and with each other

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Safe Network LaunchMore leaping!

• Make the absolute most of what we have and SHARE.
  Attitude is far more important than money
• Listen to each other as well as to children and
  young people.
• No one organisation can keep children and young
  people safe. They are all our children and we are
  in this together

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Safe Network LaunchThe Home Straight

• Its OK
• to be nervous and unsure
• to say you dont know
• to ask for support and help

• Its NOT OK
• to use fear to erect new hurdles
• to use targets to keep people out
• to be secretive because you may need help

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Safe Network LaunchThe Rewards

• Safer organisations working with others
• Better mutual understanding and respect
• Reaching new groups and offering new
  opportunities to children and young people
• Knowledgeable carers and communities able to
  demand the best for their young

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Safe Network LaunchMore rewards!

• The harnessing of public awareness to make
  safeguarding everyone's business
• Watching the confident children and young people
  take control of their own safely and hearing them
  speak out when somethings wrong
• Parents and carers asking the right questions
  and making the right choices.

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• and of course best of all safe, happy, children
  and young people able to take the risks they need
  to grow.
• No illusions
• It will be tough and we will not always see eye
  to eye. But in the end

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• lets stick together.
• for the sake of the children!

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Chairs Summary
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• Thank you
• For attending the Launch
• Of the Safe Network

NSPCC registered charity numbers 216401 and
SC037717. Children England charity registration
number 1044239,company registration number
3011053.