Step Up Stay Safe Local Context Overall behaviour in LBBD - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Step Up Stay Safe

• Overall behaviour in LBBD secondary schools is good, with Ofsted rating over 90% of schools as good or
• better. Exclusion rates in both primary and secondary schools are below national and London rates.
• As with most secondary schools across the country, issues of gangs, youth violence and peer on peer abuse is being

seen more in our schools and in the hours after school. The ‘lost’ hours is a vulnerable time within the local community as highlighted by recent events and the rise in permanent exclusions. The figures have doubled in comparison to last

• year. Some exclusions have been issued for ‘out of school’ incidents that brought disrepute. There has also been a rise

in young people bringing weapons into school. This problem has not just affected secondary aged pupils.

• Highest proportion of 0-19 year olds in country, high levels of deprivation, low educational attainment, crime, and

poor parental attachment act as the perfect storm for a low resilience to exploitation amongst young people in the borough.

• There has been a significant rise in serious youth violence and the number of young people that carry weapons.
• An identified cohort of adolescents in the borough who are exploited through county lines activity
• Some of these interventions are already offered to schools and families. For those young people more at risk, the

council is leading a number of innovative multi-agency approaches to reducing risks of violence, criminal and sexual exploitation faced by some young people:

• Multi agency team to address missing and all forms of child exploitation/contextual safeguarding bid,

Integrated Gangs unit, At risk matrix work, and Trauma Informed model are some examples of this.

• The council is proactively working together with its key partners to combat this national and local concern

Local Context

Parental & Community Engagement

‘Lost Hours’ campaign

“Step Up, Stay Safe!”

Tiered Intervention offer

Awareness-Diversion-Protection

Young voices

Not just the loudest. All voices are heard and

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Schools

Head teachers and SLT supported by key partners. Training offer and network meetings

Council and Partners

Community Safety Partnership LSCB Police Community Partners

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• Universal offer to schools and families including

assemblies and staff training

• Targeted approach involving group work in

schools and sustained long term intervention

• Intensive programmes of support are elevated up

to YARM workers*

• Specialist offer to rehabilitate and offer positive

alternatives

Tiered Intervention approach

Awareness-Diversion-Protection

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UNIVERSAL Whole school assemblies LifeLine workshops Aspirational speakers Fearless resources Staff Awareness training

Universal parents offer Triple P online

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Aspirational work experience opportunities

Fearless workshops Bespoke staff training

Targeted parents offer - Triple P/ComSol

Community Partnerships SPECIALIST Ben Kinsella Trust/Old Bailey Bart’s Trauma visits Box Up Crime YARM workers

Searching, screening and confiscation

Exploitation assessment tool

Family work

4-12 week intensive programme INTENSIVE Triage Box Up Crime LifeLine mentoring 1:1 with families Trauma workshops 4-12 week rehabilitation programme Community Resolution

Health – CAMHS e.g. More than Mentors

YARM workers Key to interventions: Existing New To be enhanced or increased

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• Coined by Dr Carlene Firmin 2015 - an approach to child protection intended to assess, support,

and where necessary intervene with, peer relationships, educational and public contexts where young people were at risk of significant harm.

• seeks to create a response to extra-familial forms of abuse that can:
• Target the contexts in which that abuse occurs, from assessment through to intervention
• Frame work to address extra-familial risk through the lens of child welfare, as opposed to crime

reduction or community safety

• Utilise partnerships between children’s services and agencies who have a reach into extra-familial

contexts (such as transport providers, retailers, youth workers, residents associations, parks and recreation services, schools )

• Measure success with reference to the nature of the context in which harm has been occurring,

rather than solely focusing on any behaviour changes displayed by young people who were at risk in those contexts.

• LBBD one of 4 London Borough’s to win bid for University of Bedfordshire Scale up project

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• An approach to understanding, and responding to,

young people’s experiences of significant harm beyond their families.

• As children grow they spend increasing amounts of

time socialising with peers, at school and in public environments independently of parental/carer supervision.

• In these extra-familial contexts they may encounter

harmful norms that are conducive to abusive and exploitative relationships.

• Therefore a need to identify, assess, and intervene in

all of the social environments where the abuse and exploitation of young people occurs – in essence to take a ‘contextual’ approach to safeguarding

• Need to engage with individuals and sectors who do

have influence over/within extrafamilial contexts

Specialist Exploitation Team, statutory social care intervention, rescue and response, London Gangs Exit, Abianda, Spark2life, TAITH, YOS, Minerva, ACES PPP Parenting

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Intensive Exploitation team, rescue and response, YOS, ACES and PPP parenting offer, Abianda, Spark2life, YOS, TAITH. Minerva Targeted YARM, Nia, Minerva YOS pre court

• disposals. Parenting educational groups

focusing on gangs and weapons Universal Studio 3 Arts, Box Up Crime, Future MOLDS, Spark2life, Lifeline, Arc Theatre

Contextual safeguarding Channel/Prevent processes

Governance Framework

BDSCB

(and successor post WT 2018)

MACE Strategic Partners

Contextual Safeguarding and Exploitation Strategic Group

A time-limited ‘Contextual Safeguarding and Exploitation Strategic Group’ to co-ordinate the development of the multi-agency exploitation strategy and oversee the implementation. An Exploitation Strategy will provide a single, strategic articulation of our partnership approach to tackling exploitation (and by extension embedding Contextual Safeguarding). The reporting line of MACE would remain directly to the BDSCB –, MACE reframed to MACE (Child, rather than Sexual) to reflect the focus on wider contextual risk of exploitation and missing children. The PQA Working Group would develop a Performance and QA Framework to monitor progress.

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