CYP 3.3 Victoria Climbie serious case review

[Nicholad]

Hi this is my first post - hope it works!

CYP 3.3 Understand how to safeguard the wellbeing of children and young people

Can any one offer any advice as to how I'm meant to answer:
1.4 Research and include evidence on serious failures to children and how you would ensure that the same failures would not happen to children in your care and why? (Victoria Climbe).

Does it mean I have to talk about what happened to Victoria? I'm not relishing the thought of doing that but can't figure out what else its asking??

Or do I just talk about Serious case reviews??

Sorry but my brain is melting in the heat!
Thanks

[hanaaa.a]

I didn't talk about what happened to Victoria i just spoke about what they are and how the polices and procedures have been influenced by them!

For example....

Lessons learned from serious case reviews usually include the importance of:
• Sharing information and communication.
• Keeping an accurate timeline of events.
• Clear planning and roles.
• Overcoming the problems of hard-to-teach families.
• Good assessment of the child’s situation.
• Early recognition of children in need of protection by mainstream services such as schools or health services.
• Partnership working with agencies that parents may be receiving services from for example mental health services

Hope that helps!

[Nicholad]

Thanks for responding! this what I have so far, does it sound ok? feel like my head is going to explode!

The murder of Victoria Climbie in Feb 2000 was a terrible tragedy that highlighted the serious failings of a system that struggled to co-ordinate and share information amongst agencies. There were twelve separate occasions when the opportunity to intervene and, perhaps save Victoria’s life, had been missed. Victoria’s death led to a public inquiry by Lord Laming which would eventually lead to the Green paper Every Child Matters and the Children’s Act 2004.
However Victoria’s tragic and untimely death was not the only case where the murder of a child could find a path leading back to the inadequacies of the child protection system where the NHS, social services and the police failed to work together to protect a vulnerable child; Lauren Wrights death in 2001 and Peter Connelly (‘Baby P’) in 2007 – Peter even died in the same borough (Haringey) that had failed Victoria 7 years earlier.

Working together in partnership with all agencies involved in the care of a child is vital to safeguarding, from government legislation to local guidelines on safeguarding. It is crucial that all agencies communicate and cooperate together to promote the safety and well being of children.

The Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) is the key statutory mechanism for agreeing how the relevant local organisations will cooperate to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, and for ensuring the effectiveness of what they do. The scope of the LSCB role includes activities that safeguard all children and aims to identify and prevent maltreatment, or impairment of health or development, and ensure that children are growing up in circumstances consistent with safe and effective care. The LSCB should be proactive in its approach to target particular groups and make arrangements for responsive work to protect children who are suffering, or at risk of suffering, maltreatment.

The death of Peter Connelly in 2007 led to inquiries into the role of all agencies involved in his case and death, including the health authority, police and Haringey Council. The General Social Care Council were to conduct an internal review into potential breaches of its code of practice. In addition Lord Laming conducted a nationwide review of his own recommendations after the Victoria Climbie inquiry. This review highlighted the fact that previous recommendations had not been taken up by all authorities.

In the event of a death or a child is suspected of being a victim of abuse or neglect, a serious case review (SCR) will take place.

It is the role of the local safeguarding children’s board (LSCB) to consider whether a review should be undertaken where a child has been seriously injured through abuse or neglect or been subjected to a serious sexual assault and whether there could be other children involved i.e. siblings.

The purpose of the SCR is to establish whether there are lessons to be learnt from these cases, what these lessons are, how they can be acted on and what can be expected to change as a result, ultimately this will improve inter agency work and better safeguard for children and young people.

[hanaaa.a]

Yea that's along the lines of what i put :)

I started losing interest in doing the work but hang on in there and you will finish :)

[tutu]

good start you now need to discuss the legislation and its purpose and apply not to the policies and procedures in your own practice

[Nicholad]

Thanks :)

[goddessjoanna]

It is important to safeguard children and young people because no one deserves to be abused weather it be physical, sexual or emotional abuse and no child or young person deserves to be neglected and we as a society have a duty to protect them from harm. Every child deserves to live without the fear of harm or abuse. If we can protect children from harm they are more likely to grow up into confident members of society. Children with a disability are three times more likely to experience abuse and neglect and its up to us as practitioners to recognise the signs and symptoms to protect all children.
In every setting there should be a policy and procedures on whistle blowing. The whistle blowing Policy is put into place to provide protection against the person in the work place against victimisation or any form of punishment (physical or verbal) when concerns are genuine. If you suffer any victimisation or punishment due to whistleblowing you may be able to take your case to an Employment Tribunal. If you have any concerns about misconduct or malpractice that is occurring in your work setting you should report it to your manager/supervisor. All information given is confidential. The whistleblower is a person that discloses wrongdoing that threatens others, rather than a complaint about their own treatment.
The procedure to follow if an employee wishes to raise a concern is as follows:
• All staff should act in good faith when they suspect misconduct or malpractice within the setting.
• The whistle blower should think hard about what is worrying them and why.
• They should then report their concerns to the manager/supervisor in charge, do this when you feel that the time is right.
• Write your concerns down giving background details, history, names, witness names (if any) dates and places if you can.
• During an investigation both parties are adequately informed with any progress that has been made by the manager/supervisor, they will also give a timescale on how long the investigation will go on.
• Support is offered to both parties if they require this.
• Both parties can defend any complaints and give their version of events that have happened.
• All information disclosed from both the whistleblower and the accused are all kept confidential and they are investigated discreetly (Data Protection Act).
• However, if a situation arises where a case cannot be resolved without revealing identities, they will discuss how they can proceed.
• If nothing happens about your concerns you would take the next step. If you feel that you cannot talk to your manager/supervisor or if you feel nothing has been done you can contact The Early Years Advisor or Ofsted on 0845 601 4772 for further advice on steps to follow.
If you lose your job or suffer as a result of whistle blowing you are protected by law under
The Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998, this was brought in to protect whistleblowers, this covers any offence that has been committed (A miscarriage of justice, Danger to health and safety of an individual and/or environment, any deliberate concealment of any information given.
The Standards Board for England’s whistleblowing Policy and Procedure, are set out, in line with the Act.
It is the role of the whistleblower to appropriately report or respond to possible misconduct, however it is not the whistleblower’s role to investigate the misconduct or to give out their own justice.
Protection of the accused party/parties:
• The manager/supervisor will assess whether it is necessary to protect the accused / accusers until the concerns have been investigated.
• The accused/accusers will be informed of the seriousness of the allegations of misconduct by their manager/supervisor they will also provide any supporting evidence.
• The accused or accusers will be advised in writing of the procedure to be followed.
• The accused/accusers will be given the opportunity to respond by a meeting or put their response in writing to the claims made against them and speak about any relevant evidence.
The accused/accusers will be given the opportunity to be accompanied by a representative of a trade union or a work colleague.
• They will be provided with support, counselling or mediation to those subject to investigation in order to resume normal working relationships as soon as possible.
Remember that Whistleblowers are protected for public interest, to encourage people to speak out if they find malpractice in an organisation or workplace.

[goddessjoanna]

Lord Laming produced a report in 2003 following a public inquiry into the death of Victoria Climbie`. She died in February 2000 of malnutrition and hypothermia, having suffered horrific abuse at the hands of her great-aunt and the aunt’s boyfriend. Lord Laming’s public inquiry found a series of missed chances for the authorities to save her life. A lack of communication between social workers, nurses, doctors and police officers allowed her great-aunt and her boyfriend to torture the little girl to death. Many professionals involved in the case admitted that their workloads were too big while pay and morale were low, and that they did not communicate with one another. The inquiry made a number of key recommendations for improvements to services that led to the Children’s act 2004.

Far too many children suffer abuse or neglect at the hands of their parents or careers. Research shows the scale of this, and reports of children dying as a result of abuse or accidents are all too often in the news.
In 2000 the NSPCC published the results of a national survey of 3,000 young people aged 18-24 about their experience of a wide range of issues ( Cawson,2000) and found that-
• 7% had been physically abused by a career
• 6% had suffered emotional and psychological maltreatment as children
• 6% had been seriously physically neglected
• 4% had been sexually abused
• 80% of physically abused children had known domestic violence
• A significant number of children face repeated serious and multiple forms of abuse at the hands of parents or careers
• Abuse is more common in families with drug or alcohol abuse problems.

The number of children suffering abuse is on the increase, some say the increase is due to better awareness of abuse but whatever the reason it is clear that it is crucial we continue to raise our efforts to safeguard children.

[boojuice]

Wow.

I have been asked for brief description of events and injuries.
Then the findings of the public enquiry
And finally the recomendations.

The same for 2 other Publice enquiries.

I may some time!!