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Child Safeguarding Review Panel
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In September 2022 the Child Safeguarding Review Panel issued guidance asking that “all safeguarding partners review their current policies on bruising in non-mobile infants to check for consistency with the evidence base and national guidelines.”
1. Was their a review of your safeguarding policies after this guidance was published, when was it, and what did it conclude?
Yes via the Pan Berkshire Policies and Procedures group from October 2022. Conclusion was that no amends were needed for the existing guidance. https://berks-reading.trixonline.co.uk/chapter/bruising-suspicious-marks-on-children-not-independently-mobile
For awareness, all procedures are reviewed on a 2 yearly cycle, the chapter in question is in review now and amends are due to be published in March 2026 in Trix.
2. Provide any papers that give information on the outcome of this review.
Conclusion was that no amends were needed for the existing guidance. https://berks-reading.trixonline.co.uk/chapter/bruising-suspicious-marks-on-children-not-independently-mobile
For awareness, all procedures are reviewed on a 2 yearly cycle, the chapter in question is in review now and amends are due to be published in March 2026 in Trix.
3. Does your policy require a s47 investigation or strategy discussion in all cases?
This is covered in our Threshold Documents:(https://www.berkshirewestsafeguardingchildrenpartnership.org.uk/scp/wokingham/wokingham-threshold-guidance)
Non accidental injury including bruising/suspicious marks on children not independently mobile is a risk factor under Level 4 therefore a strategy discussion is highly likely at level 4.
4. What changes were put in place to provide consistency with the evidence base and national guidelines.
From item 2 in our last review, no changes.
5. Were there changes to your definition of when a child is not independently mobile and how is that now defined – in particular are children who can roll defined as not independently mobile and are children classified as not independently mobile on the basis of age?
Rolling babies and older disabled children are considerations for our current review of the chapter, as identified in item 1 above.
