Please read the following information before starting the survey

Topic 2 - Contextual Safeguarding

Contextual Safeguarding is an approach to understanding, and responding to, young people’s experiences of significant harm beyond their families. Traditional approaches to protecting children/young people from harm have focussed on the risk of violence and abuse from inside the home, usually from a parent/carer or other trusted adult and don’t always address the time that children/young people spend outside the home and the influence of peers on young people’s development and safety.

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What is Section 11?

Section 11 of the Children Act 2004 places duties on a range of organisations and individuals to ensure their functions, and any services that they contract out to others, are discharged having regard to the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.

What is the Responsibility of Wirral Safeguarding Children Partnership?

All organisations have a general duty to promote and safeguard children. Wirral Safeguarding Children Partnership (WSCP) is a statutory body that oversees these arrangements and in order to measure the effectiveness of these duties the Partnership has developed standards with indicators which can support a judgement.

What are the responsibilities of agencies to comply with Section 11?

Section 11 places a duty on:
  • local authorities and district councils that provide children’s and other types of services, including children’s and adult social care services, public health, housing, sport, culture and leisure services, licensing authorities and youth services
  • NHS organisations and agencies and the independent sector, including NHS England and clinical commissioning groups, NHS Trusts, NHS Foundation Trusts and General Practitioners
  • the police, including police and crime commissioners and the chief officer of each police force in England and the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime in London
  • the British Transport Police
  • the National Probation Service and Community Rehabilitation Companies35
  • Governors/Directors of Prisons and Young Offender Institutions (YOIs)
  • Directors of Secure Training Centres (STCs)
  • Principals of Secure Colleges
  • Youth Offending Teams/Services (YOTs)
Completing and Scoring the Self-assessment

The audit consists of a series of questions which relate to specific arrangements, including policies, procedures, managing allegations and training which help safeguard children and young people.

When agencies have completed their audit, a blank Action Plan template can be downloaded from the WSCP website and populated with any areas requiring further improvement. The WSCP will dip sample audits after each topic, and action plans on an annual basis.


PRINTING YOUR AUDIT
To keep a copy of your audit, fill in the questions and press print before you click 'done'. The WSCP keep copies of every audit, you can request a copy of your audit by contacting Kat Ryan.

To find out more about Section 11, follow the link to our website.

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* 1. Please select your agency from the options below

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* 2. Please provide details of the professional completing this audit

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* 3. Has your safeguarding lead attended Contextual Safeguarding training in the last 3 years?

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* 4. If you answered 'yes' to Q3, please explain how the learning has been shared with staff in your agency

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* 5. If you answered 'no' to Q3, what is your plan for ensuring Contextual Safeguarding is understood in your organisation?

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* 6. Are you confident that your staff understand the updated Child Exploitation protocol 2021?

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* 7. Do your staff undertake or contribute to safeguarding assessments of children and young people?

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* 8. If yes, do you ensure that assessments include consideration of extra-familial threats to children and young people, including for example, exploitation, county lines, online abuse, extremism?

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* 9. How does your agency raise awareness of contextual issues with young people?

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* 10. How does your agency ensure the use of appropriate language/terminology with young people/staff and in case records? For example, do you use the WSCP appropriate language guidance?

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* 11. Are you familiar with the updated Pan Merseyside Missing Protocol 2022?

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* 12. How confident are your staff with County Lines?

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* 13. Are your staff familiar with the potential threats of radicalisation, terrorism and extremism?

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* 14. Do your staff know how to refer into the Channel Panel?

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* 15. If you have a good practice example or case study in this area, please upload it here. If there is more than one document to attach, please send to Kat Ryan

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