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Front Cover -- Protecting and Safeguarding Children in Schools: A Multi- Agency Approach -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures, tables and boxes -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 Making sense of schools' engagement in multi-agency working in the changed educational landscape -- Introduction -- Academisation -- Multi-agency work with children and families -- Examining the contemporary role of schools in multi-agency work -- Multi-agency safeguarding arrangements -- Austerity and child welfare inequalities -- The research design and process -- Literature review and scoping interviews -- National surveys -- The case studies -- The chapters that follow -- Part I The national picture -- 2 A historical perspective: the evolving role of schools in child protection and safeguarding -- Introduction -- The long history of schools and child welfare -- Drawing schools into a multi-agency approach to child protection -- Education welfare services -- Schools not at the table -- The Beckford Inquiry -- Preparing teachers for a role in protecting children -- The Children Act 1989 -- Training and support for teachers -- The Labour government's (1997-2010) reforms -- The Education Act 2002 and the Every Child Matters reforms -- Welfare professionals based in schools -- Reflections on the development of the role of schools in child protection and safeguarding -- 3 Contemporary challenges: views from local authorities and 'the field' -- Introduction -- Academisation, austerity and the role of local authorities -- Multi-agency safeguarding arrangements -- Safeguarding support for schools -- The extended scope of safeguarding -- Online safety -- Child sexual exploitation and child criminal exploitation -- Preventing radicalisation -- School referrals to children's social care -- Schools and early help provision. |
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Reflections on the multi-agency working revealed in the study -- Part II Schools' perspectives -- 4 How schools are responding to safeguarding and the challenges they face -- Introduction -- Designated Safeguarding Leads -- The experience of the DSLs -- Deputy DSLs and safeguarding teams -- Dedicated time for the DSL role -- Training and support for DSLs -- Training for all school staff -- Governors -- Schools' experiences of multi-agency working -- Social workers and children's social care services -- Schools' awareness of Local Safeguarding Children's Boards -- The impact of academisation -- Schools' views on the changing nature of the task -- The Prevent duty -- Child exploitation -- Online safety -- Mental health -- Schools' response to increased responsibilities -- Concluding comments -- 5 Meeting the threshold: referral to children's social care services -- Introduction -- Collecting and sharing information within school -- Support for schools considering making a referral -- Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hubs -- Education safeguarding teams -- The referral process -- Submitting a referral -- Threshold documents -- Getting a response -- Rising thresholds -- Threshold levels -- Demand pressure -- What happens next? -- Concluding comments -- 6 Beneath the threshold: 'early help' and schools' support for children and families -- Introduction -- Early help arrangements -- Taking the lead -- 'It seems to always fall on schools' -- Early help can work -- Schools as the providers and commissioners of welfare services -- Family support -- Mental health -- Pressure on budgets -- Concluding comments -- Reflections on the case studies reported in Chapters 4-6 -- Part III Concluding thoughts -- 7 Schools and safeguarding: aligning expectations with reality -- Introduction -- Reviewing the research -- Multi-agency arrangements and schools. |
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Engagement and decision making in schools -- Final thoughts -- Postscript -- The impact of school closures on safeguarding practice -- School places for 'vulnerable' children -- 'Keeping in touch' with children not attending school -- Schools' future involvement in multi-agency working -- Appendix 1: Congruence analysis of the national surveys of education, children's social care and Local Safeguarding Children Boards -- Appendix 2: The case study schools -- Appendix 3: Qualitative Comparative Analysis of the case study interview data -- Appendix 4: Working environment in schools -- Appendix 5: Timeline of schools and children's welfare since 1870 -- Question scoring -- Education/social care weighting -- Don't know scores -- Clustering approaches -- Socio-economic context of schools -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover. |
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Driscoll, Jenny.
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Purcell, Carl.
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Manthorpe, Jill.
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Hickman, Ben.
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9781447358299 (electronic bk.) |
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