Safeguarding Children Annual Conference 2010
8:30
Registration and refreshments
9:30
Minister’s keynote address - The national vision for safeguarding children: Everyone’s responsibility
Join your Health Service colleagues, attending the Health Service Journal’s Effectively Safeguarding Children Conference, to hear about the central vision for safeguarding and how it will impact on your role.
Tim Loughton MP
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children and Families
Conservative Party
9:50
Question and answer session
10:05
Close of shared pre-conference keynote
10:10
Opening remarks from chair
Jenny Myers
Corporate Safeguarding Manager
Barnardo’s UK
10:20
Understanding the differences between Safeguarding and Child Protection and how you can differentiate between the two
- Identifying the roles and responsibilities of your safeguarding team: Knowing when to hand the case over
- How can you work together to improve the process for everyone?
Alex Nagle
Head of harm reduction
child exploitation and online protection
Tim Beach
Chair
LSCB - Barnet
10:50
Discussion
11:00
Feedback, question and answer session
11:10
Morning refreshments
11:30
Ofsted's role in helping to safeguard children
- The safeguarding judgement on all inspections
- Unannounced inspections of contact, referral and assessment services
- Evaluation of serious case reviews
- Safeguarding and Looked After Children inspections
Chris Batty
HMI, Interim Divisional Manager, Social Care
Ofsted
11:50
Case study: Engaging with hard to reach / difficult families and children
Caroline Budden
Head of Children’s Services
Surrey County Council
12:10
Question and answer session
12:20
Lunch
13:20
Making Serious Case Reviews work: Are there better ways of monitoring and promoting learning?
- What other methods are there available to you?
- Looking outside the box: How can you achieve wider and deeper studies of cohorts of children?
- What will the impact be of full publication of Serious Case Reviews?
Sheila Fish
Research Analyst
Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
13:45
Case Study: Keeping children safe on the internet, in a converged environment
Jim Gamble
Chief Executive
Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre
14:05
Question and answer session
14:20
Afternoon refreshments
14:40
Risk and assessment: Your working risk masterclass
- What level of risk to a child is acceptable and how can this be assessed?
- How can you measure increase / reduction in risk? Is there a standardised base line that is used by everyone?
- What is the impact on the decision making of ‘risk professionals’ and why is there such a big increase in the numbers of care proceedings following the Haringey case?
- How can you assess what is a reasonable length of time to keep trying to reduce risk? Whose interest is it to keep trying over an extended period of time?
Wes Cuell
Acting Chief Executive and Director of Services for Children and Young People
NSPCC
Jacqueline Toft
Deputy Assistant Director and Senior Service Manager
Blackpool City Council
Kim Scragg
Head of Service
Oldham Council
15:15
Question and answer session
15:25
Safeguarding: Future Priorities
15:30
How will the National Safeguarding Unit work?
- How can it support the development of strategic priorities and relate to the national targets on protecting children?
- Using the National Safeguarding Unit to your advantage when promoting good work
Deborah Ramsdale
Deputy Director to Area Based Services
The National Safeguarding Unit
16:15
