MISSING FROM CARE Due to the high levels of staff supervision at Maple View, children missing from care should not be a regular occurrence, however, the children at Maple View are incredibly vulnerable and will have safeguards in place to protect them. All children have an individualised risk assessment. This identifies all known risks and places control measures to attempt to reduce risk. It is important that we allow our children to take risk so that they can learn and develop but this is done in a controlled manner. If a child is identified as being at risk from being missing from care, a specific missing person protocol will be completed for that individual. That will give specific areas of risk, identified hazards and control measures that must be in place. These include proactive measures that are put in place to support that child. The protocol specifies at what point the Police are to be contacted. It has been agreed that all of the children that are accommodated at Maple View will be seen by Derbyshire Police as missing as soon as the Police are contacted and will never be deemed as a absent, due to the vulnerability of the children. All protocols are shared with the local Police. All protocols are accompanied by an Appendix A as set out by Derbyshire Constabulary. This includes all the information the Police require when first contact is made. This ensures the correct response is given speedily.
POLICIES & ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The SENAD Group owns and operates a number of schools and children’s homes and has a set of common policies and procedures which apply to all settings. The Group has a philosophy of operating in an open and transparent manner, involving and keeping parents and placing authorities informed of all incidents, accidents and positive outcomes as regular as possible. Copies of most of SENAD’s policies are freely available on our website or can be supplied on request. As a group we welcome feedback.
Mark Ryder is Director of Care for Childrens Services and Responsible Individual for all of the SENAD children’s homes in England. He is based at the SENAD head office in Derby.
Mark Ryder, Director of Care (Children’s Services): SENAD Group, 1 St George’s House, Vernon Gate, Derby, DE1 1UQ Telephone: 01332 378840
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