Welcome to Medway Safeguarding Children Board website
SAFEGUARDING IS EVERYBODY'S RESPONSIBILITY
The Medway Safeguarding Children Board (MSCB) is a statutory multi-agency organisation which brings together a range of agencies who work to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people up to the age of eighteen years in Medway. The Board meets regularly throughout the year to discuss a wide range of issues.
The MSCB is designed to help ensure that children are safeguarded properly by agencies working effectively together and our membership includes senior representatives from Medway Council, all Medway health bodies, Kent Police, Medway schools, voluntary organisations and many others. For details of the Board structure and membership please click here.
This site provides information for everyone in Medway who is concerned about safeguarding children and meeting their needs. That particularly includes children, parents, and everyone in Medway whose work brings them into contact with children and families. You will therefore find the following here:
- * Kent and Medway Safeguarding Children procedures
* The MSCB programme of multi-agency safeguarding training
* Practice Guidance on how to write your own CP policies and procedures if you are a small or voluntary organisation
*Practice guidance on Serious Case Reviews
*Guidance for parents about e-safety
*the MSCB's Annual Report
*Information about CP Conferences, Core Groups and Child Protection Plans
Child at Risk?
If you have a concern about a child or children being at risk of abuse or neglect, please report this to Medway Customer first team by
Email : ss.access&info@medway.gov.uk
Tel: 01634 334466
What is abuse?
You'll find everything you need to know about abuse in young people's (or anyone's) relationships at the newly launched "This is abuse" website. The site aims to educate young people about recognising abuse and where to go for help.
Most parents don't think that abuse can take place in teen relationships, but it happens all the time. And it can happen to anybody.
http://spotteenabuse.direct.gov.uk/index.html
Review of the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Children Procedures
Medway Safeguarding Children Board are currently reviewing our Safeguarding Children Procedures. We would welcome any feedback you may have and so please complete the following questionnaire.
NEW Chapter 8 Working Together 2009
The new Working Together to Safeguard Children is still in its consultation stage. However, Chapter 8 Serious Case Reviews has already been revised and published and will be incorporated into new policies and procedures soon.
Chapter 8 (pdf, 523Kb)
Independent Safeguarding Authority
The ISA "Vetting & Barring" scheme has been suspended by the new government and will not come into effect on July 26th as planned.
For more detail, please visit the the BBC news website.
Upcoming Training Events
LEVEL 1
Basic Awareness in Child Protection (pdf, 78Kb)
14 October 2010
6th January 2011
LEVEL 2
Intermediate Course in Child Protection (pdf, 84Kb)
20 September 2010
13th December 2010
8th March 2011
Introduction to Child Protection and Parental Substance Misuse
3 September 2010
Attending Case Conferences & Core Groups
4 October 2010
17 January 2011
Introduction to Child Protection & Domestic Violence (Domestic Abuse Awareness Raising)
4 November 2010
Communicating & Engaging with Children (pdf, 77kb)
Tuesday 29th March 2011
LEVEL 3
Neglecting Neglect (pdf, 82Kb)
6 December 2010
OTHER
CDOP (Child Death Overview Panel) Training
(This training is aimed at people who may have to produce information for Child Death Overview Panels)
Parking is not available at Gun Wharf, delegates can find parking in the nearby public car parks.
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Some of the documents on this site are available in Adobe Systems' Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF).
For details go to our Adobe Acrobat information page.
Child protection conferences - Parents leaflet
Zasadanie k ochrane dieťaťa (Slovak) (pdf, 92Kb)
Konference pro ochranu dítěte (Czech) (pdf, 94kb)
Çocuk Koruma Toplant ı lar ı (Turkish) (pdf, 115Kb)
К о нфе р е н ц и и п о з ащи т е д е т е й (Russian) (pdf, 130Kb)
Konferencje w sprawie Ochrony Dzieci (pdf, 159Kb)
Child Protection plans & Core groups parents/Carers leaflett
Plány na ochranu dieťaťa a základné skupiny (Slovak) (pdf, 105Kb)
Plány na ochranu dítěte a základní skupiny (Czech) (pdf, 105Kb)
Çocuklar ı Koruma Planlar ı ve Temel Gruplar (Turkish) (pdf, 125Kb)
П л а н ы п о з ащи т е р е б е н к а и О с н о в ны е г р у пп ы (Russian) (pdf, 137Kb)
Please report broken links to mscb@medway.gov.uk