Bruising in non-mobile infants

In September 2022 the Child Safeguarding Review Panel issued guidance asking that 'all safeguarding partners review their current policies on bruising in non-mobile infants to check for consistency with the evidence base and national guidelines.'

Can you respond to the following freedom of information request:

1. Was their a review of your safeguarding policies after this guidance was published, when was it, and what did it conclude?

2. Provide any papers that give information on the outcome of this review.

3. Does your policy require a s47 investigation or strategy discussion in all cases?

4. What changes were put in place to provide consistency with the evidence base and national guidelines.

5. Were there changes to your definition of when a child is not independently mobile and how is that now defined - in particular are children who can roll defined as not independently mobile and are children classified as not independently mobile on the basis of age?

1-5. Link to the policy which reflects the changes as requested for confirmation in the FOI. Policy has been reviewed and updated twice since 2022. https://lincolnshirescp.trixonline.co.uk/chapter/bruising-in-babies-and-children-who-are-notindependently-mobile

As such, this information is exempt from disclosure in accordance with the exemption set out at Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which provides that a public authority need not comply with a request for disclosure under the Act where that information is reasonably accessible by other means