The senior manager for Safeguarding and Quality Practice will then notify the Director of Safeguarding and Quality practice who will escalate to the Director for Young People’s Services and to the Executive Director of Youth Impact where appropriate. [...] Where the concern is received via telephone, the recipient must listen to the concern and note down factual details of the call as soon as possible during the call, advise the caller that their concern will be passed onto The Children’s Society's Safeguarding and Quality Practice Team and take the caller’s contact details. [...] If the concerns present an immediate threat to the safety and welfare of the individual, employees must take care not to put themselves at risk, and to seek the assistance of the police. [...] The meeting aims must be to: • assess and understand risks • agree a plan to locate the child or young person • identify actions to reduce the likelihood of the child or young person going missing in the future • ask the network about potential disruption activity (refer to the glossary of terms for a definition) that may recover the child or prevent future missing episodes. [...] Consideration must be given to the possibility that sharing information about the concerns with the child’s parents/carers may increase the risk to the child, and it may therefore not be appropriate to inform the parents/carers at the referral stage.
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Table of Contents
- Version control 4
- Related documents 4
- 1. Overview and Introduction 5
- 2. Scope and definition 5
- 3. Policy 5
- 3.1 Legal framework 6
- 3.2 The Children’s Society’s commitment to safeguarding 7
- 3.3 Safeguarding corporate governance accountability 8
- 4. Procedures 12
- 4.1 Safeguarding procedures for all employees and volunteers 12
- 4.2 Responding to a safeguarding concern for those in the Youth Impact domain 14
- Immediate risk of harm 14
- Notification of serious safeguarding concern and/or incidents 14
- No Immediate risk of harm 14
- 4.3 Responding to a safeguarding concern for those working outside of the Youth Impact domain 15
- Immediate risk of harm 15
- Notification of serious safeguarding concern and/or incidents outside the Youth Impact domain 16
- No Immediate risk of harm 16
- 4.4 Concerns from members of the public (where the child, young person or adult at risk is not known to TCS) 16
- 4.5 Escalation procedures outside of the Youth Impact domain 17
- 4.6 Youth Impact domain specific procedures 17
- 4.6.1 Recording safeguarding concerns for those in the Youth Impact domain 17
- 4.6.2 Making a referral for those in the Youth Impact domain 18
- Making a referral to a local authority 18
- Consent to refer: 19
- Mental capacity and referring6F 20
- 4.6.3 Working with local authority children’s social care 21
- 4.6.4 Children who have a child protection plan or who are in local authority care 21
- 4.6.5 Making referrals to child in need or early intervention services 22
- 4.6.6 Referrals when working with a partner organisation 23
- 4.7 Escalation procedures within the Youth Impact domain 23
- 4.7.1 Safety planning when escalating concerns 24
- 4.7.2 Consulting The Children’s Society Safeguarding and Quality Practice Team 25
- 4.7.3 Whistleblowing 26
- 4.8 Contributing to an external safeguarding review 26
- 4.8.1 Internal learning review 27
- 5. Safeguarding in specific circumstances 27
- 5.1 Safeguarding in complex circumstances 27
- 5.2 Contextual safeguarding8F 9F 28
- 5.3 Transitional safeguarding planning10F 29
- 5.4 Organised Crime Groups and Networks11F 30
- 5.5 Complex, organised or multiple abuse 32
- 5.6 Intelligence sharing 33
- 5.7 Female Genital Mutilation (cutting) 34
- 5.8 Court proceedings 35
- 5.9 Digital safeguarding 36
- 5.10 Domestic abuse 37
- 5.11 Non-Recent abuse 37
- 5.12 Missing children, young people and adults at risk 38
- 5.12.1 Notifying authorities 38
- 5.12.2 Taking action during the period a person is missing 39
- 5.12.3 Repeated missing episodes or prolonged missing 40
- 5.12.4 Return home interview/conversations 40
- 5.13 Prevent (preventing radicalisation) 40
- 5.14 Safeguarding children and adults who may have been trafficked 42
- 5.15 Age assessment and age disputes 42
- 5.16 Children as perpetrators12F of abuse: Child to parent/carer violence and child on child abuse 43
- Appendices 46
- Appendix One: Roles and responsibilities 46
- Appendix Two: Safeguarding procedure flowcharts 49
- Flowchart one: Safeguarding concerns in Youth Impact 49
- Flowchart two: Safeguarding concerns in Retail 50
- Flowchart three: Safeguarding concerns in Social Impact 51
- Flowchart four: Safeguarding concerns from a member of the public 52
- Flowchart five: Escalating a concern outside of the Youth Impact domain 53
- Flowchart six: Escalating a concern – Youth Impact domain 54
- Appendix Three: Safeguarding reviews 55
- Appendix Four: Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Services 57
