Policies and Procedures Some of the results of serious case reviews show that there were no policies and procedures in place to safeguard children and staff or there was violation of policies which led to cause death or gave serious harm to children by abusing or neglecting them

Policies and Procedures 
Some of the results of serious case reviews show that there were no policies and procedures in place to safeguard children and staff or there was violation of policies which led to cause death or gave serious harm to children by abusing or neglecting them. 
For example, there are a number of lessons to learn from the review of Vanessa George case who abused children under her care at Little Ted’s nursery. Where some policies were not in place and others were not being followed. 
Safeguarding Training: 
The staff working at little teds nursery had no safeguarding training. Venessa George used to share inappropriate pictures (pictures of sexual activities) with the other members of staff. If the members of staff had safeguarding training, they could have been able to blow the whistle against sexualised behaviour of Venessa George. 
“Staff had attended no safeguarding training.”  Nurseryworld,2017 
This informs practice of early years settings by providing clear safeguarding training to the staff who work with children. This enables staff to identify the signs of abuse in children and make them aware of whistleblowing policy to protect children from harm and abuse and report the unacceptable behaviour. 
“Similarly, there was no whistleblowing policy to support the reporting of K’s escalating sexual behaviour within the workplace. ” Nurseryworld,2017 
Safe Recruitment Policy:(DBS check) 
The manager of the nursery did not have any safeguarding training. Venessa George was recruited without a clear DBS check because she was known to the manager. 
Early years settings can make sure that they have safeguarding policies and procedures in place. They should follow the DBS check policy and safe recruitment policy when they hire new staff. They should check their DBS to make sure that they are safe to work with children and other members of staff.  
“K had been recruited via ‘word of mouth’ through the primary school, where the manager knew her in her school governor capacity. There are no records of an advertisement, formal interview or references for K’s post, though there was a cleared CRB check.”  Nurseryworld,2017 
Intimate Care Policy: care policy and she was changing children in the staff toilets.The other staff around her did not take any notice or action which gave her the freedom to abuse children. 
This teaches us the lesson that we should make sure that we follow the intimate care policy and take actions to report people who are not following the policies and procedures to keep children away from harm and abuse. 
Venessa George was not following the Intimate