WSCB SAFEGUARDING SELF-ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE (Section 11 of Children Act 2004)
Name:
Post/Role:Duration in post/role:
1. / Q: Do you have responsibility for safety and wellbeing of the children you work with or your organisation is responsible for?
Please tick the most relevant answer:Yes No Don’t Know 
2. / Q:Are you aware of the London Child Protection Procedures which are underpinned by the Working Together to Safeguard Children Guidance (March 2015) which sets out what should happen in any local area when a child or young person is believed to be in need of support.
Please tick the most relevant answer: Yes No 
3. / Q: If you have safeguarding concerns about a child or young person, do you know the name or job role of the person you would speak to about it?
Yes No If yes, name or job role:
4. / Q: If you have safeguarding concerns about a child or young person, when would you hope to speak to the person named above?
Please tick only one answer:
As soon as practically possible, that day
The next day
The next week
After you have written the report
5. / Q:If you felt that the concerns you had expressed to your safeguarding lead had not been adequately addressed which one of the following actions would you take?
Raise your concerns with your manager, if s/he is not the safeguarding lead
There is nothing more I would need to do if I had told someone
Contact complaint section within your service/agency and discuss your concerns
Record your concerns and the response of the person you spoke to and take no further action
Escalate the matter to the manager/service head of the safeguarding lead
6. / Q: When sharing information about a child safeguarding concern which one of the followingstatements is correct:
I can only share information about concerns that I have about an adult client/patient who is a parent or carer if I have their consent
The Data Protection Act is a barrier to information sharing
I must have the consent of a parent to share information with another agency if I have a concern about the care and safety of their child
If I am concerned about a child and have decided to share information, the information I share must be accurate, relevant, proportionate and shared with the correct agency via an appropriate secure method of sharing information
It is not my responsibility to share information
7. / Q.If someone is mainly working with adults, which is the most important question to ask that adult with regards to child safeguarding?
Please tick only one answer:
Are you working?
Do you have any caring responsibilities for any child?
Have you suffered Domestic Abuse?
Are you alcohol dependent?
8. / Q:If you had concerns about a colleague’s behaviour with regard to children which is the first step you would take?
Please tick only one answer
I would speak to the colleague about their behaviour and take no further action
 would discuss the matter with other colleagues in my team to see what they think in case I am mistaken
I would contact my safeguarding lead (if different from manager) to discuss my concerns
I would speak to my manager
Don’t know
9. / Q: Who would you contact if a parent/child came to you with a child safeguarding allegation against a colleague/person in a position of trust? Please tick only one answer:
Complaints section/service
Children’s Social Care
Safeguarding Lead for child safeguarding / senior manager
Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO)
Don’t know
10. / Q: What opportunities are there for you to discuss any child safeguarding ‘worries’ you have?
Please tick ALL answers which apply:
Weekly meeting
Appraisal
In supervision
Can talk to safeguarding lead / other senior colleague
At training
Complete a‘worry’/cause for concern form to give to DSL for further discussion
None
11. / Q: When was the last time you attended child safeguarding training
Please tick only one answer:
Within the last year
Within the last 3 years
More than 3 years ago
Never/don’t know/can’t remember
12. / Q. Have you received training on the following specific areas:
  • Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)? Yes No 
  • Female Genital Mutilation Yes No 
  • NeglectYes No 
  • Honour based violenceYes No 
  • Forced marriageYes No 
  • Radicalisation/PreventYes No 
  • Domestic abuseYes No 

13. / Q. Do you now know how to identify indicators of these safeguarding issues?
  • Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)? Yes No 
  • Female Genital Mutilation Yes No 
  • NeglectYes No 
  • Honour based violenceYes No 
  • Forced marriageYes No 
  • Radicalisation/PreventYes No 
  • Domestic abuseYes No 

14. / Q: Name one safeguarding strength in your workplace?
15. / Q: Name one area for improvement in safeguarding practice in your workplace.
16. / Q.In your role do you feel confident that you would recognise a concern about a child or an adult/parent and know where to access support/advice?
Please enter how confident you feel by using the gradient below:
Not confident 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Very confident

Revised 18th January 2016