Universal source of help for all families in Gloucestershire:

Gloucestershire Family Information Service (FIS)

The Family Information Service directory offers a wide range of information advice, and signposting to support families, children and young people from 0 - 19 years of age (or up to 25 years for young people with SEND).  The Glosfamilies Directory www.glosfamiliesdirectory.org.uk brings together information, services, resources, and things to do in Gloucestershire.  The directory also holds information to Support Families with SEND, Gloucestershire’s Local Offer and Future Me, Young People’s Local Offer.

GSCP (Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children’s Partnership) website.

https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/gscp 

Important information for parents and professionals across Gloucestershire in relation to keeping children safe and avenues of support including early help options.

Universal support for all pupils and families.

Our Family Support Advisor (Mrs Donna Dummelow), our SENCo (Mrs Lauren Bartlett) and our teachers are available to talk to and discuss any issues or problems. Parents can either talk directly with the staff or telephone 01453 543545

Children or young people with multiple needs

Children or young people with multiple needs (vulnerable) or multiple needs (complex) requiring multi-agency input or assessment. Early Help Assessment Coordinators offer advice, guidance and support to practitioners working with children and families around all aspects of using the Graduated Pathway. Early Help Assessment Coordinators can support practitioners with Team Around the Family meetings, developing plans and assessments and commissioning services to meet children’s needs. Early Help Assessment Coordinators also offer training around the Graduated Pathway of Early Help and Support and more information can be found HERE.

Early Help Assessment Coordinators w can be contacted by using the number and email address below:

Stroud 01452 328130

stroudearlyhelp@gloucestershire.gov.uk

Schools can refer for a Family Support Worker by completing a request for Early Help Assessment Support Form

Bereavement

Winston's Wish is a charity that helps children come to terms with their grief.

https://winstonswish.org/

GHLL https://www.ghll.org.uk/bereavement

We are committed to tackling bullying. We want to know immediately if there are any issues with bullying at school so that these can be addressed. School can also offer bespoke lessons on anti-bullying for anyone who has suffered bullying to encourage behaviours that might help avert it in the future (e.g. assertiveness) or to boost self-esteem.

There are a series of resources produced by the Gloucestershire Healthy Living and Learning Team (www.ghll.org.uk) to support this. 

Child Sexual

exploitation (CSE)

The CSE screening tool can be located on the GSCB website: https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/gscp/ . This should be completed if CSE suspected. Clear information about Warning signs, the screening tool and Gloucestershire’s multi-agency protocol for safeguarding children at risk of CSE are at https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/gscp/ * . Referrals should be made to Gloucestershire social care and the Gloucestershire Police.

Gloucestershire Police CSE Team: The CSE team sits within the Public Protection Bureau 19 Single agency team (Police)     All referrals to go to the Central Referral Unit 01242 247999

Further information: PACE UK (Parents Against Child Sexual Exploitation) www.paceuk.info *

Donna Dummelow– Family Support Adviser

Donna works  Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday mornings and one afternoon in school and is readily available to support children and families on a needs basis. She will sign post families to services if further support is required

Domestic violence

The GSCP (Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Partnership) have published a Domestic Abuse pathway for educational settings which is on the GSCP website. If a child or young person is suspected of living at home with a domestically abusive parent or if a young person has domestic abuse in their own relationship then the usual procedures should be followed and a referral made to the children’s helpdesk (tel: 01452 426565). The response will vary according to the age of the young person so that the appropriate agencies are involved.      

Gloucestershire Domestic Abuse Support Service (GDASS) www.gdass.org.uk * 

MARAC Gloucestershire Constabulary: Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARACs) prioritise the safety of victims who have been risk assessed at high or very high risk of harm. The MARAC is an integral part of the Specialist Domestic Violence Court Programme, and information will be shared between the MARAC and the Courts, in high and very high risk cases, as part of the process of risk management.

Fabricated and

induced illness (FII)

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Fabricated-or-induced-illness for

information on behaviours and motivation behind FII. Any professionals suspecting FII must involve the Police, Social Services and follow the child protection procedures.

Faith abuse

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-action-plan-to-tackle-child-abuse-linked-to-faith-or-belief  * for a copy of DfE document ‘national action plan to tackle child abuse linked to faith or belief.’ Judith Knight; Diocese of Gloucester Head of Safeguarding/faith abuse contact: jknight@glosdioc.org.uk. 

 For other faith groups contact (GCC LADO).

Female genital

mutilation (FGM)

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/female-genital-mutilation * for NHS information and signs of FGM. Any suspicion of FGM should be referred to the Police and social care. – Jane Law  (Head Teacher) and  other staff members have completed the online home office training, ‘Female Genital Mutilation: Recognising and Preventing FGM’ 

Forced marriage

SPOC (Single Point of Contact) for Forced Marriage in Gloucestershire  (Gloucestershire Public Protection Bureau  Call 101).

UK Forced Marriage Unit fmu@fco.gov.uk Telephone: 020 7008 0151 Call 999 (police) in an emergency. www.gov.uk/stop-forced-marriage * for information on Forced Marriage. Visit Home Office website to undertake Forced Marriage e-learning package https://www.gov.uk/forcedmarriage. *     The ‘Multi-Agency Practice Guidelines- Handling cases of Forced Marriage’ document contains more information and detail https://www.gov.uk/forcedmarriage. * All practitioners must be aware of this, that is they may only have one chance to speak to a potential victim and thus they may only have one chance to save a life. This means that all practitioners working within statutory agencies need to be aware of their responsibilities and obligations when they come across forced marriage cases. If the victim is allowed to walk out of the door without support being offered, that one chance might be wasted. 

Prevention Freedom Charity- Aneeta Prem ‘But it’s not fair’ book. A book for teenagers looking at forced marriage from the point of view of school friends of the girl who went to India and didn’t come back. This book promotes discussion.

Gangs and youth

violence

Contact the Avenger Task Force

(Gloucestershire Police tel: 101). A task force set up to identify potential gang members as vulnerable individuals and potential victims and aims to help them.

Gender-based violence/violence

against women and girls (WAWG)

www.gov.uk * – home office policy document,

‘Ending violence against women and girls in the UK’ (June 2014). FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) is violence against women and girls.     

 Hope House SARC (Sexual Assault Referral Centre): 01452 754390 Gloucestershire Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre: 01452 526770

Honour based

violence (HBV)

The police have made it a high priority to help communities fight back to tackle both honour based violence and hate crime. Contact Gloucestershire Public Protection Bureau  Tel: 101

Mental health

CYPS (Gloucestershire’s mental health services)

CYPS (Gloucestershire children’s mental health services). Consultant psychiatrists.

PSHCE / SMSC curriculum – emotional wellbeing, stress management

Private fostering

http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/privatefostering

Gloucestershire County council website information on private fostering. Refer to Gloucestershire Children & Families Helpdesk on 01452 426565 or Gloucestershire Private Fostering Social Worker 01452 427874.

A private fostering arrangement is essentially one that is made without the involvement of a local authority. Private fostering is defined in the Children Act 1989 and occurs when a child or young person under the age of 16 (under 18 if disabled) is cared for and provided with accommodation, for 28 days or more, by someone who is not their parent, guardian or a close relative. (Close relatives are defined as; step-parents, siblings, brothers or sisters of parents or grandparents).

Gloucestershire Constabulary: 101 and Anti-Terrorist Hotline: 0800 789 321 See Appendix (below) for further information on radicalisation.  

Prevention: Cam Woodfield Infant School teach traditional British values through the curriculum: democracy, rule of law, respect for others, liberty, tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs and promotion of ‘Britishness’.

Sexting

http://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-childrensafe/sexting * (NSPCC website). 

 Gloucestershire Police have a sexual exploitation team Contact Gloucestershire Public Protection Bureau  Tel: 101   

 Prevention:

‘So you got naked online’ (sexting information leaflet produced for pupils by south west grid for learning) included in the Wellbeing (PSHE/SMSC) curriculum. Also shared with parents. Pupils are informed that sexting is illegal but the police have stated that young people should be treated as victims in the first place and not usually face prosecution. The police’s priority is those who profit from sexual images of young people….not the victims.

Trafficking

Serious crime which must be reported to Nigel Hatton (Gloucestershire LADO) and the Gloucestershire Police.

Trafficking can include a young person being moved across the same street to a different address for the purpose of exploitation. It doesn’t have to include people, children or young people being moved great distances. 

Children who run away (missing persons/missing children)

PC Christina Pfister (Missing persons Coordinator Gloucestershire Police). Tel: 101 (Gloucestershire Police).

GSCB Missing Children Protocol http://www.gscb.org.uk: Gloucestershire's protocol on partnership working when children and young people run away and go missing from home or care.

ASTRA (Gloucestershire): The ASTRA (Alternative Solutions To Running Away) has the primary aim of reducing the incidence of persistent running away across Gloucestershire. The project provides support, advice and information to young people up to eighteen years old who have run away. This might be from a family home, foster home or from a residential unit. ASTRA provides support after the event to enable a young person to address the causes of running away. The ASTRA project offers young people help and the support required in order to find Alternative Solutions To Running Away. Freephone Telephone number: 0800-389-4992 EXCLUSIVELY for young people who have run away and have no money. All other callers are asked to use the 'ordinary' number ( tel: 01452 541599).

CME (Children missing education)

Anyone concerned that a child is missing education (CME) can make a referral to the Education Entitlement and Inclusion team (EEI) at Gloucestershire County Council. Tel: 01452 426960/427360. Children Missing Education (CME) refers to 'any child of compulsory school age who is not registered at any formally approved education activity e.g. school, alternative provision, elective home education, and has been out of education provision for at least 4 weeks'. CME also includes those children who are missing (family whereabouts unknown), and are usually children who are registered on a school roll / alternative provision. This might be a child who is not at their last known address and either: has not taken up an allocated school place as expected, or has 10 or more days of continuous absence from school without explanation, or left school suddenly and the destination is unknown. It is the responsibility of the Education Entitlement and Inclusion team, on behalf of the Local Authority (LA), to: Collate information on all reported cases of CME of statutory school aged children in Gloucestershire maintained schools, academies, free schools, alternative provision academies and Alternative Provision Schools (APS). The EEI Team will also liaise with partner agencies and other LAs and schools across Britain to track pupils who may be missing education and ensure each child missing education is offered full time education within 2 weeks of the date the LA was informed.