Safeguarding Guidance for Contracted Services
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Section 11 Compliance
Section 11 of the Children Act 2004, places a duty on key persons and bodies to make arrangements to ensure that in discharging their functions, they have regard to the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
Where a private, voluntary or independent organisation is commissioned to provide services on behalf of a statutory organsation, the agreement under which the arrangements are made should require that the private or voluntary organisation concerned takes this guidance into account in the provision of services.
This means that there is a duty on Oxfordshire County Council and other statutory bodies to ensure that any organisation commissioned by them for the provision of services to children; young people or families are compliant with the standards as defined in S11 of the Childrens Act 2004. To aid commissioners in this the OSCB has produced a self assessment tool for contracted or commissioned services and this related guidance. For those agencies registered with Ofsted, Compliance with these S11 standards does not remove the requirement to be compliant with standards as identified by Ofsted.
You can read the full document here: Guidance for contractors and other organisations providing services in Oxfordshire and for Oxfordshire County Council (.pdf, 470Kb)
There is also an Excel Spreadsheet available to assist you in recording your compliance with the standards:
Section 11 Evidence
To aid commissioned services in completing the Section 11 checklist we have developed the list of template documents below. These are only template documents and if used must be fully reviewed and adopted by your service.
Standard 1
Template Child Protection Policy
Standard 2
Annual review of Safeguarding template
CWDC Online Safer Recruitment Training
Standard 3
Spreadsheet for collating referrals
Standard 4
No templates available
Standard 5
OSCB Safeguarding Training - Booking website
Central CRB / training register
Standard 6
Central CRB / training register
Standard 7
What to do if you're worried about a child
Standard 8
7Golden rules leaflet
Standard 9
Code of conduct
Standard 10
No templates available
Standard 11
Aide Memoire
Allegations management Policy
Whistle blowing policy
Standard 12
Code of conduct
