Annual Report 2023 – Glossary of Terms

ABUSE and NEGLECT	Forms of maltreatment of a child
ACES	Adverse Childhood Experiences – highly stressful, and potentially traumatic, events or situations that occur during childhood and/or adolescence
ASSESSMENT	Process of determining the needs of a child, the level of risk to them, and the services needed to support improved outcomes
CAFCASS	Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service
CAMHS	Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
CARE LEAVER	Any adult who has spent time in care
CDOP	Child Death Overview Panel    – reports on every child death
CE	Child Exploitation – term for all forms of exploitation of children, including criminal and sexual exploitation
CHANNEL	Channel is a multi-agency safeguarding programme run in every local authority in England and Wales. It works to support vulnerable people from being drawn into terrorism
CIN	Child in Need    – social care intervention to ensure child’s needs are met
CLA	Child who is Looked After, also known as a Child in Care
CONTEXTUAL SAFEGUARDING	Refers to safeguarding risks from outside of the family home, for example online grooming. The terms extra familial harm or harm outside the home are more commonly used
COUNTY LINES	Is a term used to describe gangs and organised criminal networks involved in exporting illegal drugs into one or more importing areas within the UK, using dedicated mobile phone lines or other form of ‘deal line’. They are likely to exploit children and vulnerable adults to move and store the drugs and money
CP	Child Protection    – social care intervention to ensure child suffering or at risk of significant harm is kept safe
CQC	Care Quality Commission – inspectorate for health providers and services
CSE	Child Sexual Exploitation    – child(ren) sexually exploited by adults
CSPR	Child Safeguarding Practice Review – a statutory review undertaken by the WSCP
CWP	Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
CYPD	Children and Young People’s Department    – local authority children’s services
DA	Domestic Abuse    – wide term for all aspects of domestic oppression
DBS	Disclosure and Barring Service    – undertake criminal record checks
DSP	Delegated Safeguarding Partner – strategic representatives of statutory partners who sit on the WSCP Executive on behalf of their organisations/agencies
DV	Domestic Violence – incidents of domestic abuse
EARLY HELP AND PREVENTION	Support for children and families to prevent risk and need from escalating and requiring statutory involvement
EHC PLAN	An education, health and care (EHC) plan details the education, health and social care support that is to be provided to a child or young person who has SEN.
EHAT	Early Help Assessment Tool – a multi-agency assessment used in cases below the children’s social care threshold
EHC	Education Health and Care Plan – a multi-agency plan to support a child with special educational needs who requires specialist or additional support
EXTRA-FAMILIAL HARM	Refers to safeguarding risks from outside of the family home, for example online grooming
FAMILY HELP	Includes all levels of early help and prevention and child in need support for children and families
FGM	Female Genital Mutilation    – illegal practice of female circumcision
FM	Forced Marriage – unlawful practice of marrying off girls and women without their consent
FSW	Family Support Worker    – helps families who experience difficulties
HBV	Honour Based Violence    – crimes committed to defend so called ‘honour’, often within families
HWBB	Health & Wellbeing Board    – local statutory body to set strategy to improve wellbeing
ICB	Integrated Care Board    – commissions health services.
IFD	Integrated Front Door – the single front door for contacts and referrals into children’s services
ILACS	Ofsted inspection of Local Authority children’s services
IRO	Independent Reviewing Officer    – ensure plans for children who are looked after or subject to CP plans are robust
JSNA	Joint Strategic Needs Assessment    – identifies health and wellbeing needs
JTAI	Joint Targeted Area Inspection    – themed inspection undertaken by Ofsted the Care Quality Commission and His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary
KINSHIP CARE	Kinship care is any situation in which a child is being raised in the care of a friend or family member who is not their parent. The arrangement may be temporary or longer term.
LADO	Local Authority Designated Officer for Allegations – oversees process for investigating allegations against people in positions of trust
LEARNING REVIEW	Local non statutory review of a case to identify multi-agency learning
LP	Lead Practitioner    – leads a multi-agency intervention for a child
LSP	Lead Safeguarding Partner – refers to the LA and ICB Chief Executives, and the Chief Constable of Merseyside Police, as those with statutory responsibility for local multi-agency safeguarding arrangements
MAPPA	Multi-agency Public Protection Arrangements    – management of offenders
MARAC	Multi-agency Risk Assessment Conference    – to discuss risks to victims of domestic abuse
MASH	Multi-agency Safeguarding Hub   – enables rapid information sharing
MFC/ MFH	Missing from Care/ Home
NATIONAL PANEL	A government panel who oversee the CSPR process across the country
OFSTED	Office for Standards in Education    – inspects children’s services, schools and colleges
OPERATION ENCOMPASS	– Police initiative to inform schools of DV call outs with children present
PREVENT	Prevent is a part of the government’s counter terrorism strategy, which aims to stop people being drawn into radical or terrorist activity
PRIVATE FOSTERING	Private fostering occurs when a child under the age of 16 (or under 18, if disabled) is provided with care and accommodation by a person who is not a parent, person with parental responsibility for them or a relative in their own home, for 28 days or more.
QA	Quality Assurance
RAPID REVIEW	WSCP led multi-agency review to determine whether the threshold for a CSPR is met
RESTORATIVE PRACTICE	Describes behaviours and approached to help build positive relationships, and repair harm where there has been conflict
SAFEGUARDING PARTNERS	Refers to the Local Authority, the Police and the Integrated Care Board (NHS), as the three lead partners for the local multi-agency safeguarding arrangements
S11	Section 11 (of the Children Act)    – organisations safeguarding responsibilities, audited by the WSCP
S17	Section 17 (of the Children Act)    – criteria for Child in Need
S47	Section 47 (of the Children Act)    – criteria for Child Protection
S175	Section 175 (of the Education Act)    – schools safeguarding responsibilities, audited by the WSCP
SAPB	Safeguarding Adults Partnership Board – adult services version of the WSCP
SEND	Special Educational Needs and Disabilities – i.e. a child who has SEND
SUDIC	Sudden Unexpected Death of an infant or child
SYSTEMIC PRACTICE	Wirral’s model of relationship based practice for working with children and families
TRAUMA INFORMED PRACTICE	Professionals have an awareness of how trauma can negatively impact on individuals and communities, and their ability to feel safe
VCF	Voluntary, Community and Faith    – term for all non statutory agencies
WT 2018	Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018    – latest edition of multi-agency statutory guidance
WSCP	Wirral Safeguarding Children Partnership    – our local safeguarding partnership
WUTH	Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
YJS	Youth Justice Service
YOUNG CARERS	A person under 18 who regularly provides emotional and/or practical support to a family member who is disabled or physically or mentally unwell

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