up and the team will contact you to discuss what they can offer your family.
Hub (MASH).
There are different levels of support offered by Children’s Trust; these include:
The MASH team brings together staff and information from the following agencies within Northamptonshire:
• Early Help Assessment • Child in Need Assessment • Child at risk of significant harm enquiry (for those children who are at risk of being harmed due to abuse or neglect) www.contact.org.uk Contact for families with disabled children have a section on requesting a needs assessment and provide a letter template to use. If Parent Carers who have used the template and were successful with their assessments or support. Children’s Safeguarding Safeguarding is the term we use when speaking about measures taken to protect someone’s health and well-being from harm, neglect or abuse. When we talk about safeguarding, it can seem scary, but this is a way to ensure that people’s needs are being met in the best and safest way to remove the risk of harm. Children’s Social Care Services have a duty under the Children’s Act 1989 to make enquires to decide if they should take action to safeguard or promote the welfare of a child who is suffering, or likely to suffer significant harm. Significant harm can happen to children living in families, in children’s homes, residential schools and young offenders’ institutions. It can be caused by family members, and or Carers. It can also be caused by agencies such as health, education, police, social services. We are also now much more aware that significant harm can be caused by children being exploited by individuals they come across in their day-to-day lives. This can lead to exploitation/trafficking by criminal gangs pulling children into being sexually exploited or becoming part of a county line (dealing substances). Children can also come under the influence of extremism leading to radicalisation. Safeguarding is not there to offer judgement or interfere unnecessarily but is a layer of protection to ensure safety and get the right support in place to help.
• Children’s Social Care • Crime Reduction Initiative • Domestic Abuse Advisor • Early Help Team • East Midlands Ambulance Service • Education • Fire and Rescue Service
• Health • Police • Probation Service • Youth Offending Team
Together these agencies will review information they have and decide whether a safeguarding enquiry under the Children’s Act 1989 should be undertaken. If there are concerns about the welfare of a child or young person a safeguarding referral can be raised by contacting MASH (Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub) on 0300 126 7000 or complete a referral online at www.nctrust.co.uk ReSPECT ReSPECT is a process that creates personalised recommendations for a person’s clinical care and treatment if there’s an emergency in the future that would leave them unable to discuss what’s important to them. Through conversations between a person, their family or legal representative, and their healthcare professionals, we can create recommendations for emergency care and treatment based on what really matters to that person, and what is realistic about the care available. Many parts of England and Scotland have now adopted the ReSPECT process.
Whenever anyone is worried about a child, for example a teacher or health visitor, they will make a referral to the team at the Multi-Agency Safeguarding
How does ReSPECT work? ReSPECT and decision-making conversations happen between a person, their
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