Essential
Information
Briefing
@westyorkshire.pnn.police.uk
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
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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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Know how to contact your
Prevent team
Prevent team
Ian.mcdougall@westyorkshire.pnn.police.uk
07894601701
James.elliott@westyorkshire.pnn.police.uk
07525407882 @westyorkshire.pnn.police.uk
Saif.khan@westyorkshire.pnn.police.uk
07527285975
CSCB procedures 1.4.31
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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 :
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We need your information to get
the basics right
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We need your motivation and
buy in to make it work
Shared caseloads
Different ways of looking at and
working with families
Enhancing the skills and
professionalism of social
workers
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The journey so far
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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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DRAFT PROPOSAL FOR SYSTEMIC PRACTICE STRUCTURE VERSION 4
FRT SERVICE
LOCALITY SERVICES
MAST
FRT: Team One
Links to N&E, LV
2 pods
FRT: Team Two
Links to West & Central, UV
2 pods
North & East:
Lower Valley: Locality pods
Covering court work, CIN, CP
West & Central:
Upper Valley: Locality pods
Children Looked After Service:
CLA pods aligned to locality
pods
CHILDREN LOOKED AFTER
SPECIALIST
Adoption: Pods: not yet agreed
DCT: potenital pod for children
with CP plans or in cusp of care
Fostering:
Connected carers pod:
Pathway: to be reviewed
Calderdale Therapeutic Services:
whole system therapeutic support to
pods
Residential: redesign underway
Proposed Pods:
1 Practice Manager ( previously AP/PS)
2 x SW
1 x NQSW
1x Pod Coordinator
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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