Section 11 2023/24: Topic 5 - Systemic Practice & the Daily Lived Experience of Children

What is Section 11?
Section 11 of the Children Act 2004 places duties on a range of organisations and individuals to ensure their functions, and any services that they contract out to others, are discharged having regard to the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.

What Does Safeguarding and Promoting the Welfare of Children Mean?

Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children means:
Protecting children from maltreatment
Preventing impairment of children’s health and/or development
Ensuring that children are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe effective care, and
taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.
What is the Responsibility of Wirral Safeguarding Children Partnership?

All organisations have a general duty to promote and safeguard children. Wirral Safeguarding Children Partnership (WSCP) is a statutory body that oversees these arrangements and in order to measure the effectiveness of these duties the Partnership has developed standards with indicators which can support a judgement.

What are the responsibilities of agencies to comply with Section 11?

Section 11 places a duty on:
local authorities and district councils that provide children’s and other types of services, including children’s and adult social care services, public health, housing, sport, culture and leisure services, licensing authorities and youth services
NHS organisations and agencies and the independent sector, including NHS England and clinical commissioning groups, NHS Trusts, NHS Foundation Trusts and General Practitioners
the police, including police and crime commissioners and the chief officer of each police force in England and the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime in London
the British Transport Police
the National Probation Service and Community Rehabilitation Companies35
Governors/Directors of Prisons and Young Offender Institutions (YOIs)
Directors of Secure Training Centres (STCs)
Principals of Secure Colleges
Youth Offending Teams/Services (YOTs)

Completing and Scoring the Self-assessment
The audit consists of a series of questions which relate to specific arrangements, including policies, procedures, managing allegations and training which help safeguard children and young people.

When agencies have completed their audit, a blank Action Plan template can be downloaded from the WSCP website and populated with any areas requiring further improvement. The WSCP will dip sample audits after each topic, and action plans on an annual basis.

PRINTING YOUR AUDIT
To keep a copy of your audit, fill in the questions and press print before you click 'done'. The WSCP keep copies of every audit, you can request a copy of your audit by contacting Kat Ryan. <

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* 1. Please select your agency from the options below

Autism Together

Catch 22

Children's Centre

Early Help Alliance

Education Social Welfare Service

Family Safety Unit

Health Provider

Housing Provider

LA Children’s Social Care Services

LA Early Help & Prevention and Family Matters

Licencing

Merseyside Fire and Rescue

Merseyside Police

Nursery/Early Years Setting

Probation

Residential Setting

SEND Service

Sports, Culture, Leisure

Training Provider

Voluntary/Faith

Wired

Youth Justice Service

If your organisation is not listed, please use this box.

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* 2. Please provide details of the professional completing this audit

Name:

Job Role:

Service/Team:

E-mail Address:

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* 3. Are staff in your organisation aware that the model of practice for working with children, young people and families in Wirral is now Systemic Practice?

Yes

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* 4. Do relevant staff know how to access systemic practice resources on the WSCP website?

Yes

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* 5. Does your organisation have mechanisms to listen to and take account of the wishes and feelings of children and young people?

Yes

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* 6. Have staff with responsibility for safeguarding attended systemic practice training?

Yes

Not yet - but a place on the course is booked

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* 7. Do relevant staff if your organisation routinely gather information about the daily lived experience of children and young people?

Yes

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* 8. Please provide examples of how your agency captures the daily lived experience of the child:

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* 9. Do relevant staff actively contribute to assessments and plans for children open to multi-agency interventions such as TAF, CiN and CP?

Yes

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* 10. Is working with families informed by evidence based approaches and where appropriate the use of tools such as the graded care profile?

Yes

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* 11. Are relevant staff aware of their responsibilities towards children with special educational needs and disabilities (including actively contributing to EHC plans where required)?

Yes

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* 12. Does your organisation involve children and families collaboratively in its work to improve outcomes?

Yes

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* 13. Does your organisation involve children and families in assessment of the effectiveness of its service?

Yes

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* 14. How does your organisation ensure that the welfare of the child is paramount in all decision making?

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* 15. Is systemic practice used as part of supervision?

Yes

Evidence

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* 16. If you have any evidence to support your response to this topic, please use the upload feature below or e-mail Kat Ryan with your evidence.

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