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Welcome To the Launch of the National Safeguarding
Unit for the Third Sector
Friday 5th June 2009
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Chair
Andrew Flanagan NSPCC
chief executive
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BaronessDelyth 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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Third Sector
Core Team
WEBSITE
Helpline
Key Stakeholders
(ISA/CWDC)
Local Networks
Regional Development Managers
Key Stakeholders
E.g. Grant MakersNational Membership
Groups
Delivery Partners
Key Audiences
Umbrella /
infrastructure bodies Community &
Voluntary groups
LSCB’s
Charities
Faith Groups
Black, Minority &
Ethnic groups Parents & carers Children & young people
Volunteers
Paid staff
Trustees
Social enterprises
Arts, Culture & Leisure
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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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FilmChildren’s 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 Quality Assurance Director
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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
1970’s for three main reasons:
1. Community concern for child abuse
2. Self Awareness for parents under stress
3. 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:
1. Fears and concerns about harming their own children
2. Concerns over a third party e.g. neighbour, friend,
non-resident parent, step parent harming their
children
3. General safeguarding issues e.g. age appropriate
behaviour, baby sitting rules.
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Type of Abuse reported
Neglect 12%
Sexual Abuse22%
Self Harm 5%
Risk of Suicide
20%
Emotional Abuse25%
Other 15%
Physical Abuse33%
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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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Safe Network Launch5th June 2009
The Challenge of Partnership Working
Maggie Jones
Chief Executive Children England
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Safe Network LaunchKey Messages
1. The challenges are many and varied; and mostly well known to us
2. The solutions are also known; they need to be put into practice
3. The potential rewards are huge
4. 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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• 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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Safe Network LaunchWe are trying to model the solutions right
from the startRespect for existing third sector networks,
relationships and expertiseSupporting local groups and communities to
help themselvesAcknowledgement 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 people’s 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 don’t 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 something’s 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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Chair’s Summary
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Thank youFor attending the Launch
Of Safe Network
NSPCC registered charity numbers 216401 and SC037717. Children England charity registration number 1044239,
company registration number 3011053.