Learn Sheffield Leaders Briefing Autumn Term 1 Thursday 28 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Learn Sheffield Leaders’ Briefing Autumn Term 1 Thursday 28 September 2017, 8.30-11.00am St Mary’s Conferencing Centre, Bramall Lane

Briefing Agenda – Thursday 28 September 2017 • Introduction / Welcome • Sheffield Safeguarding Hub • Education Development Trust – A Collaborative Model • Sheffield Parents’ & ECM Survey Feedback • Ofsted Update – Helen Lane

Sheffield Safeguarding Hub

Sheffield Safeguarding Hub (SSH) September 2017

What is it? • The Sheffield Safeguarding Hub (SSH) has been in place since April 2017 • A citywide multi-agency co-located team based in Moorfoot. • Single point of access to screen safeguarding concerns from professionals and members of the public.

Why the change? • Develop the way concerns about the welfare and safeguarding of children are considered and responded to. • Improve compliance with existing regulation and inspection. • Safeguarding concerns can be dealt with in a prompt and timely manner • Have access to a wide range of information about the context within which concerns have been raised.

Overarching principles • Evidence based - It should be future proofed and compliant with regulation and inspection requirements. • Improve the quality of decision making by ensuring screening decisions are based on a broader understanding of initial concerns • The design should encompass an improved journey for the child with greater emphasis on earlier identification and better informed services at the right time.

• Closer partnership working, with clearer accountability and less duplication of effort, supporting the ability of Information being shared in a timely and appropriate manner. • Be linked to wider system redesigns in Sheffield being developed by Adults, Health and Police services as well as early help in children and young people services. • Support a cultural change in the approach to integrated working

SSH Structure As part of the initial phase of development the following staff have been co-located: • 22 (full time equivalent) Screening Social Workers from SCC. • 1 Homeless & Prevention Social Worker from SCC. • 2 Police Sergeants and 7 Police Disclosure/ Research officers from South Yorkshire Police. • 1 IDVA officer from Domestic Abuse Service. • 2 (part time) CSE Social Worker’s from SCC. • 3 Prevention and Intervention Social Worker’s (SWPIs) from MAST. • 1 Nurse Specialist from Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust • 8 Business Support from SCC. • 5 (full time equivalent) Senior Fieldwork Managers from SCC • 1 Service Manager from SCC

Current Referral pathway

Outcome of a Contact • Level 1 - Universal - No Unmet Needs - Children, Young People and Families who have the capacity to support themselves, or whose needs are being met, or can be met by engagement with Universal Services. • Level 2 - Universal Plus - Own Agency Provision - Children, Young People and Families with an additional need that may be met by a single agency, providing additional advice, guidance or support, or signposting to an additional service. • Level 3 - Partnership Plus - Early Help Multi-Agency Provision -Children, Young People and Families that would benefit from a co-ordinated package of support from more than one agency.

Concerns verified • If concerns have been verified at the contact stage of being a higher level which includes Level 4 - Targeted Complex or Level 5 - Acute/Specialist - These concerns are screened on a multi-agency basis and a Referral record completed. • Complete a further screen using the systems, and agencies represented in the SSH • Consideration given to all previous contacts, referrals, assessments and Social Care history.

Outcome of a referral • The outcome of the referral into screening needs to be determined within 24 hrs. • Level 4 Targeted Complex – Multi Agency Intense Co-ordinated Support. These cases will be referred to the Multi Agency Complex Case Panel where the case will be ‘stepped down’ with the appropriate level of support and intervention allocated. • Level 5 Acute /Specialist – At this level it indicates that the child or young person is at risk of significant harm and an immediate response will normally be required to ensure their safety. Children with this level of need will also require services and a multi-agency intervention. This maybe a Social Work intervention, or a specialist service.

Expectations of professionals contacting the SSH • Expectation that professionals identifying concerns will know who they are concerned about, what they are concerned about and why? • Should refer to the Thresholds of Need Guidance to support their judgement about the level of concern they are raising and consider if their concern meets a level 4 or 5. (If they need more information in relation to this they should contact the Information Line on 0114 273 4450). • Requirement to complete MACCFS for concerns which aren’t immediate and to follow up immediate concern with a MACCF.

Consent • In order for Social Workers to become involved with a child or a family at any level below the significant harm threshold (the child has suffered or is likely to suffer significant harm) it is necessary to have informed consent. When contact is made by other professionals seeking help on behalf of children and families in these cases, it is their responsibility to obtain consent. • On the MACF form for the Safeguarding Hub you will need to state whether you have sought consent to refer, and if not, why not.

Contacting the SSH • Telephone contact can be made to the Hub through Children’s Social Care Area Team numbers or by the single number which will eventually become the single point of contact number for the Hub on 0114 2734855. • Professionals should send an email to C&FScreeningTeam@sheffield.gcsx.gov.uk as this is secure. • Core operating times for SSH are 8:45 – 5:15 Monday-Thursday, 08.45 - 4:45 on Friday. • The Emergency Duty Service is the Out of Hours service and operates between the hours of 5.15 pm to 9.15 am weekdays and 24 hours during weekends & public holidays. • Whenever possible, service users and other agencies are expected to contact the SSH during office hours, when a full service is available.

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Early Help Framework & Locality Working Nicola Shearstone September 2017

Background & Context • Locality MAST/Schools Pilot that ran from Sept 2015-March 2016. Schools in a range of pilots working together through ‘locality meetings’ • Need to focus the provision of early help services across the city • Development of the Sheffield Safeguarding Hub

What is it - The Early Help Framework has been in place since April 2017 - The Framework brings together organisations across the city who deliver services to families at an early stage - It is has a single point of access for requesting support and is linked to the Sheffield Safeguarding Hub - It consist of 2 levels of meetings where professionals refer families in to request support be provided

Why the Change? - Demand on services in the city continues to increase - Multi-agencies working collaboratively together achieves better outcomes for children and families - Preventative support reduces demand on specialist services i.e. social care - Creates a shared collective governance arrangement and makes everyone responsible for achieving positive outcomes for families in the city

Overarching Principles of Framework Meetings • Practitioners working with families who have an unmet (or new need) identified can refer into the Early Help Meetings for a discussion to access relevant support for the family. • The meetings provides a locality-based, multi-agency forum and decision- making body for the discussion of children, young people and families that may benefit from a co-ordinated package of support from more than one service • The Early Help Gateway Meetings provide support to families across the City at Partnership Plus (Level 3 on the Threshold of Need). • The Multi-Agency Complex Case Panel provides co-ordinated support to families across the City at Targeted Complex (Level 4 on the Threshold of Need) - this Panel has a dual purpose: – To serve as a complex case panel for children, young people and families in localities. – To serve as an accountable manager layer in the governance structure of locality working.

Thresholds and the 5 Levels of Need • The new Citywide Threshold Guidance has 5 levels of need to clearly indicate where early help sits within the continuum: 1 - Universal – No Unmet Needs 2 - Universal Plus – Own Agency Provision 3 - Partnership Plus – Early Help Multi-Agency Provision 4 - Targeted Complex – Multi-Agency Intense Co-ordinated Provision 5 - Acute/Specialist - Children in Need of Protection and Support. Referral to Sheffield Safeguarding Hub • The 5 Levels will support professionals to effectively identify the needs of children, young people and families and provide clarity on how to access support.