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WSCB staff |
Dr Vic Tuck is the Development
Manager of the WSCB |
Vic sees the role of the WSCB Board as setting a positive climate for sound interagency practice:
“The WSCB plays an important part in improving outcomes for children by supporting good practice on the ground, and influencing the planning of services for children across agencies. The Board has statutory powers to coordinate safeguarding arrangements and ensure their effectiveness.”
Vic works closely with the subcommittees of WSCB and chairs the Special Cases sub committee. Comments Vic: “I support colleagues in achieving their objectives, and expanding other areas of work of the Board, such as research and development, and more training. I assist in completion of important audits of child protection systems.
Vic has taken the lead in developing a Risk Assessment Model for professionals to use in Warwickshire. The model has also been taken up in Telford and the Wrekin and Lincolnshire. It can be found in:
"Analysing Risk in Child Protection: A Model for Assessment" by Vic Tuck, appears in Developing Good Practice in Children's Services, edited by Vicky White and John Harris and published in 2004 by Jessica Kingsley.
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Linda Village is the Interagency
Training Officer for WSCB |
Interagency training is shaped not only by National Drivers but also local need. For example, need identified by WSCB audits and Serious Case Reviews. To ensure that our training in Warwickshire also meets practitioner developmental need, Linda has supported the training Sub Committee to complete a wide reaching training needs analysis. “We had over 280 responses from over 11 different agencies that provide services to Children in Warwickshire” says Linda. “This has reinforced the need for the competency based Interagency Child Protection Training Programme that is currently being successfully delivered on a rolling programme and is detailed in the WSCB Interagency Training Directory”
“We also have an innovative new training programme planned for November 2008 around ‘Making Core Groups Effective’ This training will give practitioners the knowledge and skills necessary to ensure the effective working of core groups that is necessary to formulate, record, implement and review the Child Protection Plan to ensure the best outcomes for children”
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Pat Convery is the
Administrative assistant for WSCB |
Vic and Linda are supported by Pat Convey. Pat’s voice will be familiar to a lot of practitioners as she leads on coordinating the WSCB the training data base. “I am able to quickly collate who has attended which course and from which professional agency they represent” says Pat. This enables the training sub committee to target training appropriately” A new development has been to input training evaluations into the data base so training programmes can ensure they are relevant and meeting the needs of Warwickshire Children’s Workforce
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