Safeguarding Level 3 - Role of DSL

Aims

To provide Managers and DSL’s with a wide range of knowledge and skills to fulfil their statutory duties in safeguarding children. 

To facilitate a learning environment where managers and DSL’s have the opportunity to come together with their peers to refresh, reflect on and extend their safeguarding knowledge and practice.

Summary

• To build on their own and to support their colleagues in developing their existing knowledge in identifying children at risk of harm or maltreatment
• To consider adverse childhood experiences (ACES) for children and the effect this has in forming cycles of abuse
• Review in detail the Southwark Threshold guidance to gain a better understanding of which level of referral is appropriate to either Family Early Help or MASH
• To use serious case reviews as the basis for identifying how the Assessment Framework (2000) can assist in identifying risk and protective factors for children and their families
• Identify the importance of supervisions, information sharing and professional discussions to support safeguarding children and families
• Reflect on what documents and records we keep and if they are sufficient for identifying stability, family history and functioning and parenting capacity.