Pan London Safeguarding Presentation Sept 2010

Karen Walkden

Barnet Contribution
Pan London Safeguarding Faith and Culture Project

Background…
1.6m children in London
40% BME
Disproportionality - SCRs
Parenting practices vs UK legislation on child rearing and safeguarding
Community knowledge of legislation and resources
Professionals understanding and weighting of family culture and sensitivities
Trust needs to be built between statutory services and faith and cultural groups – so that protection of children is prioritised.
Beliefs
Drive
Behaviour

… Background
New Migrant Fund
Pan London Steering Group
All boroughs deliver focus groups
Identify and disseminate best practice – seminars, links
8 Local Authorities with projects
July 2010 to December 2011

Outputs
Guidance on culture and faith issues to accompany the London Child Protection Procedures
A Strategy Toolkit to assist LSCBs engage with local communities whose culture and faith distinguishes them from the host nation
A Training Toolkit to assist professionals to better safeguard children whose circumstances include culture and faith issues
Conference held jointly with Trust for London in April 2011
London Councils conference in December 2011

Focus group questions for professionals
What do you feel least confident about when acting to safeguard children/support families from minority ethnic cultures and faiths?
Do you have easy access to expert advisers for the minority ethnic communities and faith groups that you deal with in your area?
What training would you like to improve your confidence and competence to safeguard children/support families from minority ethnic cultures and faiths?
What do you think your LSCB could do to assist you in your task of safeguarding children in different culture and faith communities and groups?

Focus group questions for faith and cultural community groups
What do you think are the priority safeguarding children issues in your community and/or faith group?
What is your experience of the statutory and voluntary services for supporting families and keeping children safe in your area?
What do you think statutory services professionals need to know and do (in relation to your culture and/or faith) that would help keep children safe?

Best practice
Local authority audits
Policies in place, processes for updating
Ethnic monitoring
Equalities impact assessment
Designated BME/Faith safeguarding person
Process for views of BME/Faith to influence service provision
Publications to promote safeguarding of BME/Faith
Parent support programmes for BME/Faith
Training courses for professionals working with BME/Faith

Barnet’s contribution
Piloting materials, toolkits and information through focus groups and learning sets.
Increase knowledge and uptake of safeguarding resources by faith and BME communities through advice service.
Involve young people through Junior Safeguarding Board
Focus on supplementary schools and their particular needs

Other boroughs…
Bexley – community parenting support groups for BME, managing inter-generational tensions
Brent – community needs assessment, creating a community lead sub-group for the local SCB. – focus on BME ( Victoria Climbe Foundation). Links to work in Harrow.
Enfield – training for professionals, church and community leaders and parents to promote early intervention and prevention in African communities. (AFRUCA)
Hackney – Community group work with Turkish/Kurdish families to address domestic violence and intergenerational conflict.
Merton – Investigating the extent and causes of disproportionality in child protection interventions for minority ethnic and faith communities. Links to AFRUCA work in Southwark.
Newham – sexual abuse and spirit possession in relation to Muslim teenage girls.
Tower Hamlets – Piloting a multi-agency cultural competence training programme

Stakeholders
London Councils
Barnet Safeguarding Children Board
Faith and Culture sub-group
Professionals working with children in Barnet
Faith communities – via faithbook and CommUNITY Barnet
BME and new migrant communities via CommUNITY Barnet
Supplementary schools via BSSF
ContinYou
Junior Safeguarding Board
Barnet Multi Faith Forum
… and others

Linked Project – Safe Network
4 Boroughs
Engaging with faith groups to understand how they access safeguarding support
What are the barriers
Jointly managed by NSPCC and Children England
Elaine Ryan to October Pan London meeting
Also CD available – Keeping our children safe – Raising awareness in black and minority ethnic communities.

So far…
Membership of steering group
Scoping the Barnet contribution
Research into existing resources
Audit of Barnet’s policies and procedures
Proposed focus groups
Designed and delivered on-line survey
Post training evaluation form questions
Briefings

Next steps
Briefing more stakeholders – raising the profile – highlighting resources available
Responding to audit findings eg Equalities Impact Assessment Toolkit for assessing policies and procedures
Analysis of SCRs in Barnet
Faith and culture sub-group of the SCB – models for involving culturally specific service providers
Gathering views - focus groups – on-line survey – training
Engage with supplementary schools and Junior Safeguarding Board

Arising
Preventative action – Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities - Parenting support
Role of voluntary sector – Hackney model/Bexley model
Cultural competence
Packs for focus groups/interviewees
http://www.londonscb.gov.uk/culture_and_faith/

Follow progress through updates on the following websites:

[email_address] 07941 203564 www.flourishing.me.uk
Link to on-line focus group questions:
www.surveymonkey.com/s/faithandculture

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