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Proformas

This section provides a series of proformas that Designated Senior Persons for Child Protection can use as resources to assist their role. They cover a variety of areas and offer an opportunity for consistency in practice within the school. They include:

 

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Annual Report to the Governing Body on Safeguarding Children updated

To provide a report to the Governing Body on Safeguarding practice that enables the Governing Body to monitor compliance with the requirements of ‘Safeguarding Children in Education.

Annual School Child Protection Checklist updated

This is a tool to support headteachers and school governing bodies in establishing whether the policies and procedures within school are effective in terms of safeguarding children. Senior Persons for Child Protection can also use this as a checklist, to assess areas of good practice by the school and areas where improvement may be needed.

Child Protection Policy updated

This is a model Child Protection Policy (Revised 2008). Schools can choose to either incorporate this completely or use it to support them in writing their Child Protection Policy. Every school requires a policy and it should be reviewed annually.

Concern Form updated

It can be used by staff to report any concerns that they have regarding a child. It ensures that the information they share is focused and follows a consistent procedure within the school. Recording in this way also allows another school to clearly understand the concerns that staff had about the child, should they transfer. You may already have a similar system in place in your school and may wish to change this form to meet the needs of your school. Completed forms should be passed to the Senior Designated Person for Child Protection and stored in the child’s child protection file. There should not be a need for photocopies of this form to be made and staff should not keep a copy.

Referral Form

This is a link to the referral form used by school when making a child protection referral. The form is used for a variety of referrals. A completed referral form should be sent within two days of a child protection referral made to client services through the call centre.

Risk Assessment Management Plan new

An assessment tool to be used forChildren or parents/carers who pose a risk to themselves or others. The DSP is required to contribute towards the formulation of school RAMP, monitor and review its implementation.

School Child Protection Report to a Child Protection Conference updated

This is an updated model (Revised August 2008). It is an expectation that all professionals involved with the family will bring a report to share at the Child Protection Conference. The proforma has been produced to provide support with the consistency of the reports received and to ensure that key areas that will be discussed in the conference are covered.