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Safeguarding Young People 14-19
Barbara WilliamsIndependent Chair of
North Tyneside Local Safeguarding Children board
The LSCB
‘The LSCB is the key statutory mechanism for agreeing how the relevant organisations in each local area will co-operate to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in that locality, and for ensuring the effectiveness of what they do.’
(Working Together, DCSF 2010)
LSCB Objectives
• Co-ordination of agency activity to safeguard and promote welfare
• Ensuring the effectiveness of what is done,
in order to:
Enable children and young people to have optimum life chances and enter adulthood successfully.
The Scope of LSCBs
• Prevention. ( Target group – all children and YP)
• Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable groups
• Protecting children and YP who are suffering, or who are likely to suffer of significant harm
Potential areas of concern for LSCBs
Include:• Child sexual exploitation;• Children and YP living with domestic abuse,
substance abuse or parental mental ill-health;• Female genital mutilation;• Forced marriage;• Children/YP missing from home;• Children/YP who may have been trafficked;• Children/YP who are looked after.
Local Priorities
• Protecting children and young people from neglect
• Listening to the views of children, YP and families
• Performance Review and Quality Assurance• ‘Think Family’• Safeguarding disabled children and YP, and
those with complex health needs.
Parental Problems – Potential impact on the safety and wellbeing of young people
( Cleaver et al 2011)Outcome Area Potential Impact
Health Lack of support for developmental change.Increased risk of:•early drinking, smoking and drug use•mental health problems•accident, injury, fear of violence•teenage pregnancy and parenthood•problems in relationships
Education and cognitive ability
Education and learning not supportedSchool missed, education disruptedIncreased risk of school exclusionFailure to reach potentialPoor life chances
Risks (cont)Outcome Area Potential Impact
Emotional and Behavioural Development
Increased risk of: •conduct disorders including bullying, involvement in crime• social isolation and being bullied•self-harm•feelings of isolation – no-one to turn to• going missing
Identity Increased risk of:•lack of positive role models•poor self-image and low self esteem
Family and Social Relationships
Poor or ambivalent relationships with parents.Restricted or lost friendships.Increased risk of being a young carer.
Risks in summary
Within the family:• Physical abuse• Sexual abuse• Neglect and emotional abuse
Outside of the family:• Sexual exploitation• Risk taking behaviours including going missing from
home• Internet abuse/cyber bullying
The Need for a Focus on Young People
• Learning from Serious Case Reviews (Death or serious injury to older YP accounted for
25% of SCRs between 2003 and 2009. Most YP had had involvement with multiple agencies.)
• Impact of abuse and neglect on life chances
• Need to break the cycle of abuse and neglect and poor outcomes
What can stand in the way of good practice?
• Lack of understanding of the causes and consequences of adolescent neglect
• Links between troubled behaviour and unmet need/abuse and neglect not always recognised
• Lack of clarity about agency roles and responsibilities• Absence of shared understanding about ‘thresholds’
for service provision• Services for YP in transition may not be co-ordinated
Achieving good practiceWhat do agencies need to do?
Prevention • Listening to young people• Accessible, responsive universal services• Promoting resilience in young people (e.g role
of schools and college, promotion of education for citizenship, PHSE)
• Supporting Parents
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