essential information briefing @westyorkshire.pnn.police.uk
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Prevent strategy• Universal – work to improve awareness, increase
resilience, develop skills• Targeted – work in schools to challenge extremist
narratives, work with community groups to understand local tensions, develop community contacts
• Specialist – support to vulnerable individuals, effective information sharing with partners, CHANNEL scheme
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Factors that may contribute to vulnerability• Under achievement• Possess literature• Experience exclusion in any of its forms• Identity confusion• Change in behaviour• Unusual Internet usage• Victim of hate crime• Conflict with family• New influences • Isolation
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Prevent team
07894601701
07525407882
07527285975
CSCB procedures 1.4.31
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@westyorkshire.pnn.police.uk
Know how to contact your Prevent team
National Adoption Leadership Board – November 2014
Concern about significant reduction in applications for Placement Orders in last 12 months against a trend in previous years towards an increase
Impact of appeal cases - Re:B, Re:BS
Courts finding that assessments of families/connected carers as potential carers insufficiently robust
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Key messages
Courts need high quality, evidence based analysis of all realistic options for children
Must consider all realistic alternatives to adoption but courts don’t require in-depth analysis of unrealistic options
Keep the balance between fairness versus the impact of delay for children
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Key messages
Adoption is the ‘last resort’ but doesn’t mean it’s not the necessary option to provide permanent care for children
26 week timescale does not apply to Placement Orders but should plan as early as possible
The test for adoption remains the same, and care plans for children remain based on their best interests and welfare
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Safe, Successful
Families
What is it ?
The introduction of systemic social work practice
It’s all about transforming
social work practice by offering :
• Shared caseloads
• Different ways of looking at and working with families
• Enhancing the skills and professionalism of social workers
• We need your information to get the basics right
• We need your motivation and buy in to make it work
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The journey so far• Implementation group meeting fortnightly• Website and blog up and running• Training programme established• Pod development work underway• SMARTER working group on board and creating
bespoke area at Northgate for the test pods based there
• New equipment for Carlton Mill• Outline structure• Practice handbook
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LOCALITY SERVICES
North & East:Lower Valley: Locality podsCovering court work, CIN, CP
West & Central:Upper Valley: Locality pods
Children Looked After Service:CLA pods aligned to locality pods
CHILDREN LOOKED AFTER
Adoption: Pods: not yet agreed
Fostering: Connected carers pod:
Calderdale Therapeutic Services: whole system therapeutic support to pods
Residential: redesign underway
SPECIALIST
DCT: potenital pod for children with CP plans or in cusp of care
Pathway: to be reviewed
FRT SERVICE
MAST
FRT: Team OneLinks to N&E, LV2 pods
FRT: Team TwoLinks to West & Central, UV2 pods
Proposed Pods: 1 Practice Manager ( previously AP/PS)2 x SW1 x NQSW1x Pod Coordinator
DRAFT PROPOSAL FOR SYSTEMIC PRACTICE STRUCTURE VERSION 4
What will a pod look like?
Practice manager
Social Worker
Social Worker
Newly – qualified social worker
Admin coordinator
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What we hope for...• Improved staff effectiveness and team work in the
protection of children and support for their families • Creation of ‘systemic thinkers’ and skilled
practitioners within the authority• Creation of a self-sustaining group of systemic
practice enthusiasts, who can take forward the work to the wider organisation
• Improved collaborative working with families