What's New?

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• Safeguarding Children Board Organisational Structure has been updated on the About Us page
• HSCB Business Team members list has been updated on the HSCB Business Unit page.
• Contact us page has been updated. If you have a query, comment, or a complaint regarding this website or the procedures manual contact us through the contact us form on the Contact us page.
• Integrated Practice page has been updated.
• Vetting and Baring page has been updated and renamed to Safe Recruitment and Monitoring
• Local links and publications have been updated in the Useful Links and Publications page
• Voluntary Sector Information page has been updated
• The Serious Case Reviews page has been updated with a new sub-section titled Partnership Case Review
• The Training and Learning page has been updated.

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• NEW Step Up-Down process – is now available on the Integrated Practice page

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• The About Us page has been updated.

• Details of new courses have been added to the Training and Learning page.

• Useful Links & Publications has been updated.

• Voluntary Sector Information page has been updated with the Draft Model Child Protection Policy for Voluntary, Community and Faith Groups in Hertfordshire

• Child Deaths (Information for parents) page has been updated and renamed to 'If you are bereaved'

• Child Deaths (Information for professionals ) page has been updated and renamed to 'Child Death Overview Panel'

• A new private fostering leaflet is available on the Parents / Carers and Professionals Private Fostering page.

• The HSCB Business Team details have been updated in the HSCB Business Unit page.

• The Comments and Complaints page has been updated.

• Serious Case Reviews page has been updated

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The new HSCB Business Plan 2011-12 is now available on the About Us page and the Useful Links & Publications pages.

New: 'The Observatory- Local Information' button, has been added to the Home and Professionals section. This button links to the Hertfordshire Local Information System (HertsLIS) website, which is formerly known as the Hertfordshire Observatory.

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• Useful Links and Publications pages have been updated, with new links and publications such as, the HSCB Practice Update documents
  
• The Training and Learning page has been updated.
• Child Death (Information for Parents/ Carers) page has been updated
• Child Death (Information of professionals) page has been updated
• HSCB Business Team details have been updated on the HSCB Business Unit page
• Childrens/ Young people Useful Links page has been updated.
• Domestic Violence / Abuse page for Parents/ Carers has been updated with a New Government strategy-Call to End Violence against Women and Girls
• Safeguarding Children Board Organisational Structure has been updated. To view the organisational structure view the About us page.
  
  

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Home section

• Private Fostering page has been updated.
• Vetting and Barring page content has been updated.
• HSCB Business Unit page has been updated
• Pilot projects page has been updated.
• Training and Learning page has been updated with the latest training programme for March to June 2011 and also contains the Support and Network flyer'
• Professionals and Parents/carers, Useful Links and Publications pages have been collaborated and updated. This page can be found in the Home, Professionals and Parents/Carers sections of the website. Click here to visit a Useful Links and Publications pages
• Practice Guidance: The Identification and Management of Failure to Thrive in Infants and Young Children document has been added. Please see the Local Publications link in the Useful Links and Publications pages.

Professionals Section

• E-Safety Advice for Professionals page has been updated.
• Voluntary Sector page has been updated with information from the workshops on tendering and safe staffing.

Children's Section

• The Children's Useful Links page has been updated.
  
  

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Home section

• What’s New page has been updated. This page will now contain quarterly HSCB Newsletters.
• Audit & Performance Analysis Sub-group page has been updated
• Pilot projects page has been added to the Home Section. Content of this page is to follow.
• Training page has been updated. You are now able to download Conference slides for the 1 November 2010 and the research document on neglect

Professionals Section

• Professionals Useful Links and Publications page has been updated

Parents Section

• E-Safety Advice for Parents Carers page has been updated. The page contain a useful link to 'What you should know about Facebook Places' Video.
• Domestic Violence/ Abuse page has been updated.
• Useful Links and Publications page has been updated.

Childrens/ Young people Section

• E-Safety page has been updated
• A Useful link page has been added to the children's Section
  
  

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• The telephone number for Child Abuse Investigation Unit has been updated to: 0845 33 00 222

• Training and Learning page has been moved to the home section to make it more easier to find. The page has also been updated with new contents such as, Information from the HSCB website/ procedures launch and details of HSCB Annual Conference course. Click here to go to the Training and Learning page

• Serious Case Review page- New local guidance on the HSCB Serious Case Review Process is now available for you to download. The guidance and tools can also be found on the Professionals Useful Links and Publications page.

• Voluntary Sector page has been updated. The page now contains downloadable documents for Pro-Action Adult Training Autumn- Winter 2010

  
  

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• An Executive Summary for the Case Review into the death of Baby D has been added to the Serious Case Reviews Page

• The new online HSCB Inter-agency Child Protection and Safeguarding Children Procedures Manual 2010 is now available, click here to go to the Inter-agency Training page

• Notice: HSCB Annual Conference: Neglect...the elephant in the room? Monday 1st November 2010, the Fielder Center, Hatfield. Click here to book online.

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• Notice: The HSCB Child Protection Procedures 2007 and the Hertfordshire Child Protection Handbook are out of date and should be destroyed.

• The new HSCB Safe Staffing Handbook 2010 is now available for you to download – click on this link to access the handbook