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Plymouth Safeguarding Children Board Windsor House Tavistock Road Plymouth PL6 5UF |
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01752 307535 |
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01752 307330 |
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Ending of Child Protection Register
This is to confirm that as of 1 April 2008 Plymouth no longer has a Child Protection Register.
The Lord Laming Inquiry in 2003 into the death of Victoria Climbié recommended that "local authorities replace the Child Protection Register with a more effective system. Child protection conferences should remain, but the focus must no longer be on whether to register or not. Instead the focus should be on establishing an agreed plan to safeguard and promote the welfare of the particular child".
Working Together, 2006 (the guidance to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children) confirmed the implementation of this recommendation to take effect within each authority no later than the 1 April 2008.
Plymouth will continue to hold child protection conferences where there are concerns that a child is suffering or is at risk of suffering significant harm. If the child protection conference decides that a child is at risk of significant harm, the child will now be the 'subject of a child protection plan'. Plymouth will continue to keep a record of all children who are subject of child protection plans.
An effective child protection plan should:
- identify any further assessments that are needed.
- identify the root causes of the harm to the child, based on evidence and assessments to date.
- set out specific and achievable child-focused outcomes (both long and short-term).
- set out what both the family and workers involved need to do to stop the child suffering significant harm.
- set out who will be checking the child is safe and well on a day to day basis.
- include a contingency plan, ie what should be done if the child protection plan is not working.
- describe how and when the child protection plan will be reviewed.
The first core group meeting will continue to be held within 10 days of the initial child protection conference. It is the responsibility of the core group (including family members) to draw up and add more detail to the outline child protection plan constructed at the conference.
It is the role of the key worker to co-ordinate the child protection plan, including keeping the child/young person up to date with the plan and finding out the child/young person's views.
