Develop a list of key staff for police and health to contact for support and advice contacts for support and advice To ensure outcomes from PQA Section 47 case file Audit for children with disabilities are fed into the Disabled Children Action Plan Group to review the outcomes of the audit Group to incorporate learning and recommendations into this plan Audit members Jane Leigh PQA Case audits will feed into the action plan for safeguarding disabled children June 2016 To support agency staff in ensuring disabled children receive Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) LSCB Workforce group to consider content of both CSE and Safeguarding Disabled children training for multi-agency staff to ensure that both courses cover Sex and Relationships and issues and risks around CSE LSCB to promote the training to staff who work with disabled children Sue Hollman, Stuart Workforce group and trainers LSCB training offer will cover Sex and relationships and CSE Agencies who work with disabled children will be appropriately trained and offering disabled children comprehensive education on Sex and relationships June 2016 To ensure that LSCB members are aware of numbers of disabled children on the Isle of Wight and can use this information to inform practice and Health to change the CP medical form to include a box to tick to say a child has a Disability and space to describe the nature of that disability and some brief guidance notes to Sian Butterworth with Sue Hollman and Julie Stuart All professionals undertaking medicals will know when child has a disability and can act accordingly The task and Finish group will have the Starting May 2016 forms will be used
planning to better meet their safeguarding needs ensure staff completing the form understand what constitutes disability. To begin to unpick methods for understanding how many children outside of CP and Special Schools ability to assess how many COP medicals involve children with disabilities To enable disabled children to feel more at ease during CP medicals Health to undertake CP medicals for pupils attending Medina House and St Georges School on the School site rather than in the Hospital Disabled children in main stream schools to be asked where they would prefer to have their medicals undertaken and could make use of Family Centres. Sian Butterworth Sue Hollman and Julie Stuart All children attending IOW Special Schools will have their medicals undertaken on the schools site All disabled children attending main stream schools will be given an opportunity to choose where they would prefer to have their medical From May 2016 To monitor appropriate procedures for carrying out medicals with disabled children Task and Finish group to set up terms of reference for an audit process. Group to complete a table top case audit with regards to the CP medical process for a selection of cases Rob Winfield Audit will reveal if medicals are being carried out sensitively, if children are given appropriate choices and support and if staff have understood the Nov 2016
with disabilities have engagement and participation opportunities on the IOW participation and inclusion officer and the Inclusion lead for DICT to ensure the views of disabled children are heard. Inspectors and Youth council to review this action plan set up audit visits for young inspectors to visit provision for disabled children to give a view on its suitability i.e. rooms for medicals and interviews of disabled children to take place Young inspectors and Youth Council to input into the Anti Bullying policy and work via the education sub group Kim Fry Task and Finish group Education Sub group Disabled children are given more opportunities to voice their views and to evaluate plans and service s to ensure they meet their safeguarding needs. Policies, procedures, strategies and practice will reflect the of Disabled children ensure that Health and LEA Placements meet the needs of children with disabilities and that any gaps are identified and acted upon The working group will review the requirements to ensure that disabled LAC children and children placed out of the county have their needs met confirm our compliance with current legislation. Rob Winfield/Kate Symes This work will determine what gaps, if any, need to be addressed and will be included in a future report to the board. August 2016 ensure that Multi-Agency case audits undertaken PQA group to ensure that terms of reference for case audits include Jane Leigh IOWSCB will receive reports on the outcome of April 2016
by PQA group include children with disabilities disabled children in the case samples case audits relating to disabled children. ensure that outcomes from SCR’s and Partnership Reviews where the child has a disability are fully discussed at task and finish group and added to agenda of relevant sub groups for action Ensure that learning lessons events and sub group plans and reports include discussion of recommendations for disabled children All Chairs of sub groups The safeguarding needs of disabled children will be included in all LSCB sub group plans and work May 2016 onwards To develop training packages to address the needs to upskill the children’s work force starting with workshops on : Communicating with Disabled Children The Autism Act and communicating effectively with Children and Parents/carers with Autism Trainers to be identified to write and lead training Workshops to be planned and rolled out as part of LSCB planned multiagency learning sessions Evaluations to be used to plan future training with regards to disabled children Julie Stuart Sue Hollman Lim Fry Kate The workforce will be trained in communicating effectively with Disabled children and their families so that effective outcomes can be achieved for the child Autumn 2016 review the SERAF form and the appropriate risk levels of CSE for CSC to review the SERAF form Kim Good, Julie Davies, 4LSCB Group The SERAF will give appropriate weight to the increased risks of CSE for Disabled Children April 2015