Transcript Good practice by Local Safeguarding Children Boards

Somerset
Safeguarding Children
Board
Development Day
22nd February 2013
Sally Halls, independent chair
Welcome!
Purpose of the day
• Agree key priorities
• What success will look like – what impact
• What we need to do differently
The core objectives of the
Safeguarding Children Board
a) To co-ordinate what is done by each
person and body represented on the
Safeguarding Children Board for the
purposes of safeguarding and promoting
the welfare of children, and
b) Ensure the effectiveness of what is done by
each person or body for those purposes.
LSCB functions
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Thresholds, policies and procedures
Communicating and raising awareness
Serious case review
Child deaths
Monitoring and evaluation
Section 11 partner responsibilities
Participating in planning & commissioning
Workforce: training, safe recruitment
National context
• Rising expectations from government and
the public re LSCB effectiveness and
transparency
• New ‘light touch’ WT guidance
• Munro: a learning and improvement
system; ‘the child’s journey’
• New multi-agency inspection regime
• Major organisational changes for partners
• Financial challenges
National context (2)
• Rising numbers of children in care and on
CP plans
• Heightened awareness of sexual
exploitation, and vulnerability of children in
care
• Focus on permanence and timeliness
(FJR, adoption)
• Increased understanding of impact of
neglect
• Compromised parenting - the ‘toxic trio’
Ofsted
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Early help
Referral and assessment
Child protection planning
Children in need
Continuing support
Known by partner agencies
Local context
• Strong and cordial partnership working
• Ofsted (6/12) – adequate services and
capacity to improve, but
• Significant improvements needed to core
safeguarding practice and QA
• Numbers of particularly vulnerable
individuals and groups
• Learning from SCRs and other reviews
• Underdeveloped early help arrangements
Possible priorities
1. Child protection practice – multi-agency,
getting basics right
2. Co-ordinated and effective early help
3. Think family
4. Vulnerable young people – teenagers
5. Improving quality and impact of multi-agency
training
Themes
• Voice of the child
• Information sharing/ confidentiality
• Communication
• Quality assurance
Action planning
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Outcomes – what impact?
Evidence – quantity, quality, voice of child
What will we do?
Who is going to do it?
What timetable?
NB What needs to happen/change in order
to be successful?
Thank you