Section 175 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 is the responsibility of schools/education settings?

Section 175 of the Education Act 2002 places a duty on local authorities (in relation to their education functions and governing bodies of maintained schools and further education institutions, which include sixth-form colleges) to exercise their functions with a view to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children who are pupils at a school, or who are students under 18 years of age attending further education institutions. The same duty applies to independent schools (which include Academies and free schools) by virtue of regulations made under Section 157 of the same Act.

In order to fulfil their duty under sections 157 and 175 of the Education Act 2002, all educational settings to whom the duty applies should have in place the arrangements set out in paragraph 4, chapter 2 (included below). In addition schools should have regard to specific guidance given by the Secretary of State under sections 157 and 175 of the Education Act 2002 namely, Safeguarding Children and Safer Recruitment in Education and Dealing with allegations of abuse against teachers and other staff.

Completing and Scoring the Self-assessment

The audits consist 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 setting from the options below

Education (Primary)

Education (Secondary)

Education (AEP)

Education (College)

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

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

Name:

Job Role:

School/setting:

E-mail Address:

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* 3. Are staff in your setting 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 setting 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 in your setting 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 setting 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 setting involve children and families collaboratively in its work to improve outcomes?

Yes

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

Yes

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* 14. How does your setting 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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