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Contents

Manual Version September 2011

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The Procedures, Guidance and Protocols contained in this manual are sub-divided into parts, as listed below. To skip straight to the part you require, click on the relevant part title.


Parts

  1. Policy Framework, Principles and Values
  2. Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children Board
  3. Managing Individual Cases - Procedures
  4. Procedures and Guidance for Children in Specific Circumstances
  5. Managing Individuals who Pose a Risk of Harm to Children
  6. Complaints and Professional Disagreements
  7. Serious Case Reviews
  8. Child Death
  9. Protocols
  10. Appendices


1. Policy Framework, Principles and Values

1.1 Foreword and Introduction  
1.2 Policy, Principles and Values  
1.3 Recognition of Significant Harm - Definitions and Signs of Abuse Updated
1.4 Oxfordshire Thresholds of Needs Matrix and Common Assessment Framework  
1.5 Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families  
1.6 Legal Framework for Safeguarding Children in Individual Cases  
1.7 Information Sharing Protocol  
1.8 General Medical Council Guidance to Doctors regarding 0-18s  
1.9 Guidance on Role of Dentists in Child Protection  


2. Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children Board

2.1 Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children Board - Role, Functions and Membership  
2.2 Agency Roles and Responsibilities  
2.3 A Guide to Making Safe and Appropriate Appointments in Schools and all Services for Children and Vulnerable Adults  


3. Managing Individual Cases where there are concerns about a child's safety and welfare - Procedures

3.1 Referrals (including Referral Pathway) Updated
3.2 Initial Assessment Updated
3.3 Strategy Discussions  
3.4 Child Protection Assessments and Core Assessments  
3.5 Initial Child Protection Conferences  
3.6 Record of Children with a Child Protection Plan  
3.7 Implementation of Child Protection Plan - Lead Social Worker and Core Group Responsibilities  
3.8 Child Protection Review Conferences Updated


4. Procedures and Guidance for Children in Specific Circumstances

4.1 Allegations against Staff, Carers and Volunteers  
4.2 Assessment of Risk in the Ante-natal and Peri-natal Period  
4.3 Bullying  
4.4 Child Abuse and Information Communication Technology Updated
4.5 Child Abuse Linked to Spiritual and Religious Beliefs  
4.6 Child Sexual Exploitation  
4.7 Children Living Away From Home  
4.8 Children Missing Education  
4.9 Children Missing from Home  
4.10 Children Moving Across Boundaries  
4.11 Children of Alcohol Misusing Parents  
4.12 Children of Drug Misusing Parents  
4.13 Children who Exhibit Harmful Sexual Behaviour  
4.14 Complex (Organised or Multiple) Abuse  
4.15 Disabled Children  
4.16 Responding to Children and Young People who are at Risk from Domestic Abuse – Policy and Guidance for Professionals  
4.17 Fabricated or Induced Illness  
4.18 Female Genital Mutilation  
4.19 Honour Based Violence and Forced Marriage - Oxfordshire Protocol  
4.20 Male Circumcision  
4.21 Safeguarding Children from Abroad  
4.22 Safeguarding Children who may have been Trafficked Updated
4.23 Oxford Children’s Hospital - Guideline on Management and Assessment of Young People under the age of 16 who Self-Harm  
4.24 Working with Sexually Active Young People under the age of 18 in Oxfordshire  
4.25 Safeguarding Children and Young People who may be affected by Gang Activity Updated


5. Managing Individuals who Pose a Risk of Harm to Children

5.1 MAPPA - Local Working Requirements  


6. Complaints and Professional Disagreements

6.1 Complaints  
6.2 Resolving Professional Disagreement in Individual Cases  


7. Serious Case Reviews

7.1 Serious Case Reviews  


8. Child Death

8.1 Child Death Review Process (including Rapid Response Process and Child Death Overview Panel Process)  


9. Protocols

9.1 Thames Valley Police and Children, Young People and Families – Joint Protocol and Guidance: Young People who run away or go missing from home or care  


10. Appendices

  Local Contacts Updated
  Local Keywords  
  Multi Agency Referral Form  
  Working Together to Safeguard Children 2010  
  NICE Guidelines – ‘When to suspect child maltreatment'  

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