1. Evidencing Neglect
15th November 2017

2. Holly Potter – Assistant Team Manager Assessment and Child Protection Team

3. Why is assessing and evidencing neglect difficult?
Professional desensitisation
Parental needs
Hard to explain
Disguised compliance
Different across sibling group
Subjective
Lag

4. Why do we need to evidence neglect?
Ensure families understand the concerns
Ensure children understand why decisions are made
Aid change and improvement

5. Principles when evidencing neglect
Factual – based on evidence
Fair and balanced – highlight the good stuff!
Child focussed
Clearly recorded in a way the family can understand
Aid change and improvement

6. Swindon Neglect Framework and Practice Guidance
Available on the LSCB website
Practice Guidance where neglect is a concern
Use in supervision
Take it to your supervisor or your Designated Safeguarding Lead

7. Graded Care Profile 2

8. What is the Graded Care Profile 2?
GCP2 for short
Developed by the NSPCC
Evidenced based assessment tool for evaluating levels of parental care
Uses a graded scale to capture levels of physical and emotional care
Uses Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to ensure comprehensive coverage of child's needs
Identifies strengths as well as weakness
• 1(best) – 5 (worst)
Targets aspects of neglectful care
Provides evidence that can inform care and intervention plans

10. Video clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVE3bgHOnes

11. What the GCP2 is not An assessment of parental needs A risk assessment
A whole family assessment

12. Who is it for?
Any family where there are concerns a child/ children are being neglected
At any level of intervention – universal to care proceedings
From birth to 18 years old
Any practitioner, from any agency, as long as they have completed the training and hold a license to use it

15. How do you use the GCP2?
Complete training to be given a license to use it
One assessment tool per child in a family
Draw on information from all agencies
Use up to date information during assessment period
Don’t guess!
Score and then interpret
Review it at regular intervals to track change (improvement and decline)

16. Questions and Feedback