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• offer support services• allocate for an assessment or assess the circumstances and risk if the child is already receiving a service.These decisions are based on frequency of missing incidents or details of the report relating to the responses of parents or carers.If the child remains missing then a full assessment process managed through the missing children procedure, agreed by the LSCB in2008, until the child is found or other action is required.5.6 Safe WorkforceSafer Recruitment training has been identified to ensure recruiting managers understand how to:• Deter unsuitable applicants from applying• Identify possible dangers in applications and interviews• Develop and maintain a safer culture in the workplaceTraining focuses on the good practices that should be adopted when recruiting and selecting adults to work with children, includingprocedures and strategies to help those involved in the recruitment process to deter, identify and reject applicants who are unsuitableto work with children.Page 287Originally this training was introduced in response to the Bichard Inquiry into the Soham murders. The inquiry concluded that at leastone member of all school recruitment panels should be trained in Safer Recruitment. Since it has been an OFSTED requirement thatall Head teachers and one governor from every school must be safer recruitment trained.Safer Recruitment training is offered via the LSCB and Early Years training programmes5.7 Safeguarding in SchoolsChild Protection and Safeguarding is given a high profile in LBHF schools. Each school has a designated person for Safeguardingand Child Protection and the Local Authority offers every school an opportunity to have a CP training session each year, over andabove the 3 years recommended. Additionally, there is an annual seminar for designated teachers and 2 sessions each year forschool governors.From June 2011 The EWAS has been disbanded with the EWAs transferring to the new Locality teams, new multiagency teamsdesigned to support families and children and focussing on preventative work. The Centrally Retained Education Welfare (CREW)continues to provide all schools with CP procedures and guidelines each year, a CP leaflet for parents for schools to use and amodel CP policy. All LBHF schools have bought into the CREW CP training offer for 2011/12, the first year schools have had topurchase this service.- 70 -