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Risk Outside the Home (ROTH)

Risk Outside the Home  (ROTH)

The South Gloucestershire Children’s Partnership have decided that from April 2025 South Gloucestershire will implement Risk Outside the Home (CP-ROTH) into our Child Protection Processes.  This change is needed:

• to ensure that all organisations are recognising and responding to risks outside the home (ROTH)/extra-familial harm as safeguarding issues which require a multi- agency safeguarding response.
• in recognition that a different response is required to reduce risk to children where the risks are ROTH rather than relating to factors within the family/ home.

SGCP Practice Guidance – CP-ROTH

Children’s Partnership Practice Guidance – Risk Outside the Home (ROTH)

SGCP Practice Guidance Peer Mapping

South Gloucestershire’s Risk Outside the Home (ROTH) Tool

South Gloucestershire Risk Outside the Home Tactical Group Meetings (SG RTG) 

From October 2025 PIMMs (Partnership Intelligence Management Meetings) will be replaced by the above.  These meetings will be held fortnightly and form part of our response to Risk Outside the Home for children in South Gloucestershire.  The meetings will use a VOLT (Victim, Offender, Location, Theme) model.  The primary purpose of these meetings is to consider new or emerging concerns so that early intervention and disruption is put in place to protect children and spaces/places of concern.  Further detail can be found in the documentation below:

SG RTG Meetings – PP For Children’s Partnership Site

SG RTG Meetings – Terms of Reference

ROTH Tactical Group Process Flowchart

SG RTG Meeting – Referral Form

ROTH Tactical Group Meeting Cycle

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