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Barnardos Child Protection ConferenceAdvocacy Service
In the Royal Borough of Kensington and ChelseaInvolved by Right
Quarterly Report September December 2011
Amanda Rodgers 20-01-12
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Overview
CPC Advocacy in RBKC started on 13 th September 2011, and we have taken ourfirst quarter from this date. There were 43 referrals in the first quarter, of which 24received an advocacy service.
Of 19 referrals who did not take up the service, 3 children and young people told theadvocate they were not interested in the service, 2 parents said the child or youngperson did not want a service, and it is not possible to tell whether or not childrenand young people were informed of the service in the remaining 14 cases.
The advocacy service was taken up by children and young people ranging in agesfrom 7 to 16, although the majority of these were in the 7 12 year old age group.
Out of those taking up the advocacy service, 3 children and young people attendedtheir CPC, one of whom attended twice an initial and a review.
In 2 cases, parents did not communicate permission before the CPC, and allowedthe advocate to join the CPC and feedback to the child or young person after. In allcases except 2, the advocate visited the child or young person before the CPC toascertain their views for the conference.
The advocate communicated the views of children and young people using a numberof different methods including, letters, powerpoint presentations, pictures andstatements, as well as advocating for them throughout the meetings.
9%
47%
2%
42%
Take up of advocacy services
Child / young person attendswith support of advocate
Child / young personrepresented by advocate
Child / young person attendswithout the support ofadvocate
Child / young person does notattend and is not representedby advocate
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Feedback visits were offered to all those children and young people who took upadvocacy. In two cases, visits were not carried out as the advocate received noresponse to efforts to arrange these. Both these arrangements were being madethrough the parents.
New safeguarding issues were raised by a child with the advocate in one case, andthe IbR safeguarding protocol was followed.
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Statistics
The following tables show the breakdown of age, gender, ethnicity and disability inthe take up of the CP advocacy service against the number of total referrals.
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No. of children /
young people
Age in years
Age of children and young people
Total children / young people
referredChildren / youngpeople taking upservice
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Male Female
No. of children /young people
Gender
Gender of children and young people
Total children / youngpeople referred
Children / young peopletaking up service
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10121416
No. of children /young people
Ethnicity
Ethnicity of children and young people
Total children /young peoplereferred
Children / youngpeople taking upservice
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15202530354045
None Behaviourbased
disability
Physicaldisability
Learningdisability
Total
No. ofchildren/ youngpeople
Nature of disability
Disability in children and young people
Total children / young peoplereferred
Children / young
people taking upservice
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It is shown clearly below that utilising advocacy has resulted in young peoples inputinto their Child Protection Plans. The advocate has recorded this and has fed back tochildren and young people how their wishes have been incorporated.
Input into CP Plan of those taking upadvocacy
Input into plan
No input into plan
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CP Advocacy Issues
There are some complexities in recording statistics for this work. For example, weare often unable to ascertain reasons for refusals in recording them.
The child or young persons input through advocacy into the CP Plan is an importantoutcome to assess, but we should be aware that it is not easy to do so simply. Theremay be some things raised by the young person which are taken up in the plan, andothers not. A young person may request something, such as coming off plan, whichdoes not take place, and yet this is acknowledged and addressed in the CP Plan insome other way.
We have decided to assess that the young person has had an input into the plan, ifCP planning has taken into account any of the wishes and views they haveexpressed. Perhaps detailed research, now or in the future, will tease out thecomplexities of this outcome in a way we cannot here.
In terms of those children taking up the service agreeing to be involved with the NCBresearch, there is a low take up 8 out of 24 children. Again it is not possible toreflect the reasons for refusal. This may be due to the fact that this is a new serviceanyway, and the children are asked to take in a lot of information at the first visit. Theadditional information about research may be too overwhelming. It may also bebecause of the already high number of new people that are involved in that childs life, or a reluctance to share their experiences with an unknown person.
Attendance of children at conferences has been low. This has been for a number of
reasons. Anecdotally, it seems that many parents do not want their child to attend.Reasons given are split between wanting to prioritise their education (not missingschool) and it being too distressing for the child to attend. In terms of the children,reasons have ranged from not wanting to miss school, feeling that it is adultbusiness, thinking it will be boring or uncomfortable, and knowing that the advocatecan represent them and feedback. It also appears that as the service is new,childrens attendance is not culturally embedded in Kensington and Chelsea. Anumber of social workers, in conversations with the advocate, have said that they donot think it would be appropriate for the child to attend as it would cause thememotional harm.
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It is interesting to note from the table below that there has been a comparatively hightake up of advocacy services with those going to Initial CPCs, as opposed to thosewho are having Review CPCs:
In addition, those children and young people who took up advocacy services for theInitial CPCs, continued with the service for their reviews.
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5
10
15
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25
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Initial Review
No. of children
and youngpeople
Type of CPC
Comparative take up of advocacyservice between Initial and Review CPCs
Total children / young people
Children / young people takingup service
