Public reports pack Wednesday 22-Jul-2015 19.00 Council

Page 86arranged for relevant senior officers across housing and leaving care to monitor anygaps in practise and continue to improve outcomes for care leavers.Developments/changes in practise2.117 Child Sexual Exploitation and young people going missing continues to be a top priorityfor Lambeth. Lambeth has a clear missing from care policy which informs staff of what todo when a young person goes missing. Lambeth has also ensures that they collate andmaintain all data relating to children and young people that are missing regardless or if itis one missing episode or young people who are repeatedly missing. Collectivelymanagement looks at themes and numbers of young people who go missing andLambeth’s CSE/Missing Lead also provides support to staff in the management ofcomplex missing for care cases.2.118 Sometime young people are not aware of the implications and dangers of going missingand some young people do not count themselves as being missing. To further explorethis and the risk associated with it Lambeth have commissioned Barnardo’s to undertakeindependent interviews with young people who have returned after missing from care,the interviews will take place within 72 hours where young people have been missing forover 24 hours. As this is a specialist independent provider young people are likely to bemore open about why they ran away, were they went and Lambeth can plan ways toprevent it from reoccurring.2.119 Being away from the placement is also linked to the assessed risk of vulnerability andrisk of sexual exploitation which is another area Lambeth continues to focus on.Lambeth is currently rolling out back to basic training covering all areas of practice fromthe front door straight through to the young person leaves care. The aim of the training isto ensure practitioners are fully equipped with all the knowledge and tools they needwhen working with vulnerable people. For many it will be a refresher session and forsome it will be additional learning. Within the training staff will explore risk assessments,CSE matrix tool and risk and early indicators associated with child sexual exploitation.2.120 A CSE Risk Matrix tool is now routinely completed for all children and young people whoare aged 10 and over; Social workers are expected to complete a CSE risk assessmentfor these young people and escalate any cases that are considered either a present orpossible future risk.2.121 Lambeth LSCB has an Exploitation sub group which deals with all forms of exploitationincluding CSE, trafficking and radicalisation and they also deliver multi agency trainingaround CSE and children/young people to help raise awareness and recognition of riskand how to risk assess.2.122 In addition to this LCSB will commission Barnardo’s to deliver training for those thatworking directly with children and young people affected by CSE; the course is partfacilitated by a young person who is a CSE survivor. Future plans include thedevelopment of a peer education scheme. The scheme will enable practitioners to trainother practitioners around CSE and young people will be trained to support other youngpeople who may be at risk of exploitation.20