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Safeguarding Children Policy
Introduction
Many South Cambridgeshire District Council services have a crucial role to play in protecting children and young people, and in shaping their lives. Elected members, staff and volunteers may be meeting children in the course of their work. This may range from occasional involvement to organising and running activities and events specifically designed to enable children and young people to have positive experiences outside of school and family.
Child Protection legislation places an obligation on all local authorities to safeguard from harm all children and young people under the age of eighteen irrespective of ability, family background, sexuality, lifestyle, religion, belief or culture. To meet this obligation South Cambridgeshire District Council must ensure that adequate policies and procedures are in place to guide elected members, staff and volunteers who come into contact with children and young people during their work with the Council.
Whether elected members, staff or volunteers are directly working with children or have minimal contact as a result of other duties, the individual concerned will be in a position of trust. This requires individuals to place the welfare of children and young people first and adopt practices that support, protect and empower them.
Compliance with policy and guidelines will also help elected members, staff and volunteers to avoid or manage situations where they may be subject to unfounded allegations whether mistaken or malicious.
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Sharing information
Sharing information is vital for early intervention to ensure that children and young people get the services they require. It is also essential to protect children and young people from suffering harm, abuse or neglect, and to prevent them from offending.
Cambridgeshire Information Sharing Charter
Cambridgeshire Children and Young People's Strategic Partnership recognises that sharing information between partner organisations is vital to the provision of co-ordinated and seamless services for children and young people and that:
A positive commitment to information sharing between professionals and agencies, taking full advantage of the opportunities set out under statute is the only way to ensure that all children and young people are provided with the most appropriate service as and when they need it. A proactive approach to seeking and sharing information must be adopted to ensure that assessments of circumstances and need provide a complete picture and enable effective planning and provision of services to the child/young person.
Visit Cambridgeshire County Councils Sharing information pages (This link will open in a new window) for more information and to download the Cambridgeshire Information Sharing Charter leaflet.
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