Protecting and Safeguarding Children in Schools
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Skólar gegna mikilvægu hlutverki við að tryggja öryggi barna og ungmenna. Þrátt fyrir það hafa takmarkaðar rannsóknir verið gerðar á því hvernig skólar bera kennsl á og bregðast við áhyggjum af velferð barna og hvernig samstarfi þeirra við barnaverndarþjónustu sveitarfélaga er háttað. Í bókinni er fjallað um niðurstöður umfangsmikillar rannsóknar, sem styrkt var af ESRC, á barnaverndarhlutverki skóla, ákvarðanatöku þeirra og þátttöku í þverfaglegu samstarfi stofnana.
Schools play a vital role in safeguarding children and young people, yet there has been little research into how schools identify and respond to child protection concerns, and their engagement with local authority children’s services. This book highlights the findings of a major ESRC-funded study on the child protection role played by schools, their decision-making processes and involvement in inter-agency working.
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- Bristol University Press
- 9781447358299
- 9781447358268
- Page Fidelity (PDF)
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- Mary Baginsky; Jenny Driscoll; Carl Purcell; Jill Manthorpe; Ben Hickman
- English
- 2022-07-27
- 100
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- Protecting and Safeguarding Children in Schools: A Multi- Agency Approach
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of figures, tables and boxes
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Making sense of schools’ engagement in multi-agency working in the changed educational landscape
- Introduction
- Academisation
- Multi-agency work with children and families
- Examining the contemporary role of schools in multi-agency work
- Multi-agency safeguarding arrangements
- Austerity and child welfare inequalities
- The research design and process
- Literature review and scoping interviews
- National surveys
- The case studies
- The chapters that follow
- Part I The national picture
- 2 A historical perspective: the evolving role of schools in child protection and safeguarding
- Introduction
- The long history of schools and child welfare
- Drawing schools into a multi-agency approach to child protection
- Education welfare services
- Schools not at the table
- The Beckford Inquiry
- Preparing teachers for a role in protecting children
- The Children Act 1989
- Training and support for teachers
- The Labour government’s (1997–2010) reforms
- The Education Act 2002 and the Every Child Matters reforms
- Welfare professionals based in schools
- Reflections on the development of the role of schools in child protection and safeguarding
- 3 Contemporary challenges: views from local authorities and ‘the field’
- Introduction
- Academisation, austerity and the role of local authorities
- Multi-agency safeguarding arrangements
- Safeguarding support for schools
- The extended scope of safeguarding
- Online safety
- Child sexual exploitation and child criminal exploitation
- Preventing radicalisation
- School referrals to children’s social care
- Schools and early help provision
- Reflections on the multi-agency working revealed in the study
- Part II Schools’ perspectives
- 4 How schools are responding to safeguarding and the challenges they face
- Introduction
- Designated Safeguarding Leads
- The experience of the DSLs
- Deputy DSLs and safeguarding teams
- Dedicated time for the DSL role
- Training and support for DSLs
- Training for all school staff
- Governors
- Schools’ experiences of multi-agency working
- Social workers and children’s social care services
- Schools’ awareness of Local Safeguarding Children’s Boards
- The impact of academisation
- Schools’ views on the changing nature of the task
- The Prevent duty
- Child exploitation
- Online safety
- Mental health
- Schools’ response to increased responsibilities
- Concluding comments
- 5 Meeting the threshold: referral to children’s social care services
- Introduction
- Collecting and sharing information within school
- Support for schools considering making a referral
- Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hubs
- Education safeguarding teams
- The referral process
- Submitting a referral
- Threshold documents
- Getting a response
- Rising thresholds
- Threshold levels
- Demand pressure
- What happens next?
- Concluding comments
- 6 Beneath the threshold: ‘early help’ and schools’ support for children and families
- Introduction
- Early help arrangements
- Taking the lead
- ‘It seems to always fall on schools’
- Early help can work
- Schools as the providers and commissioners of welfare services
- Family support
- Mental health
- Pressure on budgets
- Concluding comments
- Reflections on the case studies reported in Chapters 4–6
- Part III Concluding thoughts
- 7 Schools and safeguarding: aligning expectations with reality
- Introduction
- Reviewing the research
- Multi-agency arrangements and schools
- Engagement and decision making in schools
- Final thoughts
- Postscript
- The impact of school closures on safeguarding practice
- School places for ‘vulnerable’ children
- ‘Keeping in touch’ with children not attending school
- Schools’ future involvement in multi-agency working
- Appendix 1: Congruence analysis of the national surveys of education, children’s social care and L
- Appendix 2: The case study schools
- Appendix 3: Qualitative Comparative Analysis of the case study interview data
- Appendix 4: Working environment in schools
- Appendix 5: Timeline of schools and children’s welfare since 1870
- Question scoring
- Education/social care weighting
- Don’t know scores
- Clustering approaches
- Socio-economic context of schools
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Back Cover