Article: Information for GPs
"Safeguarding is everyone's business" and GPs have a
particularly vital role.
The NSPCC in conjunction with the Royal College of General
Practitioners has issued
this Toolkit specifically designed to assist GPs in
undertaking their safeguarding responsibilities for children and
young people in their care
The Designated Doctor at the Acute Trust in Barnsely has
summarised
learning derived from the Daniel Pelka Serious Case
Review
This
guidance for GPs, developed by the Designated Nurse,
Safeguarding, provides useful information about signs and
symptoms together with a useful
flowchart
Reporting to Child Protection Conferences
It is important that GPs provide a written report to child
protection case conferences. To ease the
administrative burden , the Named Dr at the CCG has
developed an electronic form that will load onto a Practice's
electronic system and self populate.
The form can be filled in from the GP records or, if
appropriate, a nil return can be sent with 'No relevant
information in the records'.
Instructions for loading the report form have been circulated
to all GP practices.
A generic copy is available here.
Safer Recruitment
To supplement training on safer recruitment provided by the
Designated Nurse and Dr the following documents may be useful
List of valid ID documents
Recruitment
Flowchart
DBS Identity
check Flowchart
Serious Case Reviews
The NSPCC produces a useful series of
briefing papers containing findings from Serious
Case Reviews against various themes
Useful Contacts
Sharon Galvin - Designated Nurse NHS Barnsley
CCG Phone 01226 433708
Email [email protected]
Ken McDonald - Named Doctor NHS Barnsley CCG Phone 01226
433602
Email [email protected]
Barnsley Safeguarding Children Board Policies and
Procedures are available
here