Local multi-agency policies and procedures

Vulnerable children and young people groups

• Bruising and suspected non-accidental injuries (NAI) in infants and children
• Baby and infant safe sleeping practice guidance
• Multi-Agency Pre-Birth Guidance 2022 to 2024
• Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews
• Children Missing from Home and Care Policy and Protocol June 2022
• Guidance on FGM 2019
• Child Exploitation Risk Assessment Tool
• London multi-agency safeguarding data sharing agreement for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children
• Safeguarding children at risk from criminal exploitation
• Child Exploitation - Parents and Carers Support Pack
• Contextual Risk Analysis Tool - July 2022
• Contextual Risk Analysis Tool guidance 

MARAC

MARAC enables professionals to work together to ensure the safety of people living in Wandsworth who are at high risk of serious harm or homicide following domestic violence and abuse.

Through the MARAC:

• Different organisations can share confidential information in order to gain a clearer picture of the situation
• A referral will have been made to an Independent Domestic Violence Advocate who will be in contact to offer support and discuss a safety plan with you
• The MARAC panel includes professionals from Wandsworth Housing Options team who can help support emergency accommodation where necessary and requested
• Information about those at risk will never be shared with alleged perpetrators of abuse

Useful information and documents

• Advice for practitioners on domestic abuse
• Getting help for domestic violence and abuse
• Referral form to the Wandsworth MARAC
• Wandsworth Children's Services - Our practice approach to domestic abuse

Levels of Need Framework

This document is a vital tool that underpins the local vision to provide the right support for children and their families at the earliest opportunity - right through to specialist and statutory interventions, when needed to ensure the welfare and safety of vulnerable children and young people.

It aims to offer a clear framework and promote a common understanding of levels of need for all practitioners within all agencies.

• Levels of Need Framework

Pan London Child Exploitation Protocol

The Pan London Child Exploitation Protocol was launched on 18 March 2021 by the Metropolitan Police. This replaces the Pan London CSE Protocol. It builds on the good practice documented in the 2017 CSE Protocol but extends the remit to cover all forms of exploitation. As previously, it is a Police led, multi-agency document, designed to complement the CP procedures.

View a presentation explaining the aims of the Pan London Child Exploitation Protocol and how it differs from the earlier CSE Protocol.

Working together

• Guide to Early Help Processes
• Inter-agency escalation policy
• London’s Philomena Protocol - An introduction for partners
• London Multi-Agency Safeguarding Data Sharing Agreement for Safeguarding and Promoting the Welfare of Children

Early Years, schools and learning

• Children missing education
• Children Missing Education Process for Schools
• Child Protection: Schools Policy
• Supplementary Education (reading copy)
• Supplementary Education (printing copy)
• Keeping Supplementary and Unregistered Schools Safe for Wandsworth Children
• Managing self-harm - guidance for schools
• Getting to grips with the new mandatory Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education, and Health Education
• Child protection and safeguarding policy for schools

Child protection in the home

Wandsworth is committed to developing an ambitious, long-term strategic approach to ending violence against women and girls (VAWG). Our strategy is based on a preventative model that has, at the heart of it, plans to deliver the cultural and behavioural shifts needed to deliver long-term change in men’s attitudes to women. Most importantly, this strategy is informed by victims and survivors

• Violence against women and girls strategy

If you have any difficulties accessing any of these documents or wish to make a comment then please email us wscp@wandsworth.gov.uk. Alternatively, contact the WSCP administrator on 020 8871 7401.

Child Death Overview Procedure

The WSCP has arrangements in place to respond to and review child deaths in their borough, as outlined in Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018 and the Child Death Statutory and Operational Guidance England (Oct 2018).

The WSCP follows the St Georges Hospital Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Child Death Reviews (April 2021) drawn up by St Georges Hospital/South West London Clinical Commissioning Group. These guidelines will be used in the event of an unexpected child death and will be followed by every agency.