OxfordshireSafeguarding Children Board Procedures Manual

This chapter has been updated to ensure that it is in line with current local processes in Oxfordshire.

This chapter has been updated to incoroporate the guidance provided by the introduction of the General Data protection Regulations (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

This chapter has been updated to incorporate Oxfordshire's local processes.

This chapter has been revised throughout in line with case-law and updated good practice guidance.

This chapter has been updated to include a link to the Female Genital Mutilation Screening Tool.

The Further Information section has been revised and updated.

Several local documents have been added to this procedure. This procedure has been also updated to reflect local practice with regards to NHS actions and protection and action to be taken.

This chapter has been amended to include a link to the Home Office publication Criminal Exploitation of Children and Vulnerable Adults: County Lines. Information has also been added throughout to describe how organised criminal groups exploit young people and use them to distribute money and illegal drugs along 'county lines'.

This procedure has been significantly updated to reflect local practice and should be re-read in full.

Section 4, Protection and Action to be taken, the statutory guidance has been updated to link to the DfE 2017 Care of unaccompanied and migrant children and child victims of modern slavery – statutory guidance for local authorities. The Modern Slavery Act 2015 is referenced in relation to age assessments.

This chapter has been reviewed and updated.

A new Section 12, Non-recent (Historical) Abuse has been added. Information has also been added with reference to 'peer on peer' abuse. The definition of Abuse has been expanded in line with that as identified in Working Together to Safeguard Children and Keeping Children Safe in Education.

This chapter has been updated.

A link to Domestic Abuse: A Resource for Health Professionals (DoH, 2017) has been added into the Further Information section.

This chapter has been updated with further detail in Section 3, Risks, Section 3, Indicators and Section 6, Issues, to reflect relevant points from the 'Protocol on the handling of 'so-called' Honour Based Violence/Abuse and Forced Marriage Offences between the National Police Chief's Council and the Crown Prosecution' (November 2016). In Further Information, links have been added to Multi-Agency practice guidelines: Handling cases of forced marriage 2014 and to Apply for a forced marriage protection order (GOV.UK).

This procedure has been updated to reflect local practice.

This chapter has been reviewed and further detail has been added in line with the 'Protocol on the handling of 'so-called' Honour Based Violence/Abuse and Forced Marriage Offences between the National Police Chiefs' Council and the Crown Prosecution Service' (November 2016). Links have been added to Forced Marriage Guidance (Home Office) - information and practice guidelines for professional protecting, advising and supporting victims and to SafeLives Dash risk checklist for the identification of high risk cases of domestic abuse, stalking and 'honour'-based violence.

A link to Parent Tips - Keeping Babies and Children Safe Around Dogs in the Home (Institute of Health Visiting) has been added into the Further Information section.

A link to Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy and Childhood - Multi-agency Guidelines for Care and Investigation (Royal College of Pathologists, endorsed by The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health) has been added into the Further Information section.

This procedure has been added to the manual.

This Guidance has been added to the manual

The link to OSCB Escalation Policy has been changed so that it now links to an updated policy.

Links to Tackling child sexual exploitation: A Resource pack for Councils; Responding to Child Sexual Exploitation- College of Policing and Child Sexual Abuse – The children's Commissioner have been added to Related Guidance. In addition, guidance relating to Working with Sexually Active Young People under the age of 18 in Oxfordshire has been updated.

This chapter has been reviewed and substantially updated. It should be read in its entirety.

This chapter has been updated to reflect Changes to Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 Arising from the Serious Crime Act 2015. A link to Female Genital Mutilation and its Management: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists  2015 has also been added. The chapter should be read in its entirety.

The chapter has been substantially rewritten and a new appendix 2 Legal Briefing: Range of Court Orders Available to Combat Child  Sexual Exploitation has been added. The chapter should be read in its entirety.

There are significant changes to the chapter from section 14 Care Proceedings onward and the chapter should be read in its entirety.

A link to Information Sharing Advice for Safeguarding practitioners has been added

This appendix has been reviewed and updated.

Working Together to Safeguard Children specifies that Local Safeguarding Children Boards, local authorities and their partners should be commissioning and providing services for children who are likely to suffer, or may have suffered significant harm, due to radicalisation and extremism. (Chapter 1, Section 17).

From 1 July 2015 all schools and child care providers must have regard to the statutory guidance issued under section 29 of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015. Paragraphs 57-76 of the guidance are concerned specifically with schools and childcare providers, registered early years childcare providers and registered later years childcare providers are subject to a duty under section 26 of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015, in the exercise of their functions, to have "due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism".

This duty is known as the Prevent duty. It applies to a wide range of public-facing bodies which are listed in schedule 6 of the Act as specified authorities in England and Wales, and Scotland. The specified authorities are those judged to have a role in protecting vulnerable children, young people and adults and/or the national security.

The Prevent strategy, published by the Government in 2011, is part of an overall counter-terrorism strategy called CONTEST. The aim of the Prevent strategy is to reduce the threat to the UK from terrorism by stopping people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism.

In addition, the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 (the CT and S Act) sections 36 to 41 set out the duty on local authorities and partners to establish and cooperate with the local Channel Channel panel to provide support for people, children and adults, vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism. It is essential that Channel panel members, partners to local panels and other professionals ensure that children, young people and adults are protected from harm.

This chapter has been updated with the following paragraph:

• Resolving Professional Disagreement in Individual Cases.

Domestic Violence Protection Orders (DVPOs) were implemented across England and Wales from 8 March 2014.

They provide protection to victims by enabling the police and magistrates to put in place protection in the immediate aftermath of a domestic violence incident.

Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme ('Clare's Law')

The Child Sex Offender Review (CSOR) Disclosure Scheme is designed to provide members of the public with a formal mechanism to ask for disclosure about people they are concerned about, who have unsupervised access to children and may therefore pose a risk. This scheme builds on existing, well established third-party disclosures that operate under the Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA).

This chapter has been previously located within Oxford Children's services Manual and has been relocated to reflect it's emphasis on SCB multiagency working. A small proportion of young people have multiple needs and present serious ongoing concerns to education, health, social care and youth support services. It is likely that most of these services will have offered interventions at different times in the young person's history. However, the services may not have been able to commit the necessary resources and expertise in an integrated way that achieves the desired outcomes. Some cases have become 'stuck' and in a small number of cases the consequences have been tragic as risks have spiralled.