Newcastle Safeguarding Children Board

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Newcastle Safeguarding Children Board

• Role and functions set out in Children Act 2004,
  regulation statutory guidance Working Together
  to Safeguard Children (2006)
• Is responsible for co-ordinating safeguarding
  arrangements in Newcastle and for ensuring the
  effectiveness of arrangements
• Provides strong leadership, scrutiny and is a
  driving force for effective safeguarding in
  Newcastle
• Has an independent voice
• An effective position within the wider childrens
  trust arrangements working alongside the
  Childrens Trust Board

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Contd.

• Produces an annual business plan derived from the
  Newcastle Plan for CYP, national local
  research, inspections, reviews assessment
• Oversees co-ordinates the Stay Safe outcome

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Scope of the role

• In three broad areas
• Universal activity (early intervention
  prevention)
• Proactive work that aims to target particular
  groups (prevention)
• Responsive work to protect children (priority)

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help produce outputs
that contribute to overall outcomes
LSCB objectives
pursued through LSCB functions
Developing inter-agency policies and procedures.
Including procedures for investigating
allegations ensuring safe recruitment put in
place co-operation on private fostering.
To co-ordinate local work to safeguard and
promote welfare of children
Working with other LSCBs on cross-border issues.
Effective local work to safeguard and promote the
welfare of children
Ensuring local planning and commissioning takes
safeguarding and promoting welfare into account.
Wellbeing of children Especially staying safe
Involving and informing the community.
Ensuring effective multi-agency training is
provided.
Establishing Child Death Review Teams.
To ensure the effectiveness of that work
Taking a view as to performance and proposing /
deciding on action to tackle issues.
Commissioning Serious Case Reviews.
Ensuring self-evaluation of single agency work
and co-ordinating self-evaluation of multi-agency
work.
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How does LSCB work fit with the childrens trust,
and with the inspection framework?
Feeding into the wider childrens trust
arrangements. Ensuring that the Children and
Young Peoples Plan covers safeguarding
effectively. Ensuring that effective
multi-agency safeguarding training is delivered
as part of the local workforce strategy.
To co-ordinate local work to safeguard and
promote welfare of children
Effective local work to safeguard and promote the
welfare of children
Wellbeing of children Especially staying safe
Making an input to inspection processes based on
self-evaluation evidence. Looking at inspection
results in taking a view of safeguarding
performance.
To ensure the effectiveness of that work
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Core statutory members in Newcastle

• Childrens Services Directorate
• Childrens Social Care
• Connexions
• Youth Offending Team
• Inclusion schools
• Strategic Health Authority
• Health
• Newcastle Primary Care Trust
• Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation
  Trust
• Northumberland, Tyne Wear Trust
• Public Health
• Police
• Probation
• CAFCASS

• NSPCC
• Adult Services
• Others co-opted by local agreement

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Governance
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Stay Safe partnerships sub working groups
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Serious Case Reviews

• Set out in statutory guidance Working Together
  (2006)
• Reviews must be carried out where a child has
  died or been seriously harmed and abuse or
  neglect are suspected
• Should always consider a SCR where
• A child sustains a potentially life threatening
  injury or serious permanent impairment of health
  or development or
• Has been subjected to particularly serious sexual
  abuse or
• A parent has been murdered and a homicide review
  is being initiated or
• A child has been killed by a parent with a mental
  illness or
• The case gives rise to concerns about
  inter-agency working

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Purpose of a Serious Case Review

• To establish whether there are lessons to be
  learned about local inter-agency working
• To identify the lessons, how they will be acted
  upon and what will change
• To improve inter-agency working to better
  safeguard children

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Process

• Ofsted notified of serious incident or death
• NSCB standing SCR Committee - sets up Serious
  Case Review Panel to consider the circumstances
  of the case
• Recommendation to the Chair of NSCB
• IMR report authors identified must have
  appropriate skills and experience
• Overview author commissioned
• Parents family advised of process outcome

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Reports

• Single Agency Reports from all agencies involved
  with case
• Close scrutiny by Committee to ensure open,
  frank, accurate information
• Each agency makes its own recommendations with
  timescales
• Chronology of involvement drawn up merging all
  agencies actions
• Overview Report written, to bring all Single
  Agency Reports together, make Findings and
  further recommendations
• Executive summary released to public

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Action

• Findings of Single Agency reports may have been
  acted on immediately or during reporting process
• Overview Report stage is followed by an
  all-agency Action Plan with timescales for
  completion of all recommendations
• Feedback, staff training, changes to practice,
  policy, if required
• NSCB and Ofsted monitor progress
• NSCB signs off completed Action Plan, closes SCR
  down

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Recent developments in safeguarding

• High level scrutiny evaluation of SCRs by
  Ofsted since April 2007 management of
  inadequate reports
• Biennial analysis reports of SCRs
• Laming report March 2009 Government Action Plan
  May 2009
• Drive on independence
• Social Care Institute of Excellence report
  systems approach to reviews
• Full revision of Working Together 2006
• ISA implementation phase (1) ISA 12.10.2009

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NSCB response to Laming

• Audit of recommendations action plan
• Appointed an independent chairperson
• Review of Newcastle Childrens Trust Arrangements
  
• Submission on consultation Working Together
  (2006) chapter 8
• Review of SCR Committee governance
• Information on NSCB website

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What does it mean for you?

• Understand the difference between safeguarding
  children protection the thresholds for
  different levels of need
• Understand your role responsibility for
  safeguarding protecting children
• Individual collective responsibility to
  understand procedures guidance keep practice
  up to date
• Consider safeguarding training needs within
  appraisal and PDP
• NSCB will monitor local national indicators
  safeguarding activity may ask Qs
• NSCB undertakes themed audits and case reviews

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Contd

• You could be involved in a serious case review or
  management review
• Involvement with a committee or sub working group
• Safeguarding as a standing agenda item
• NSCB will listen to suggestions, proposals,
  concerns
• Provide advice guidance on matters relating to
  safeguarding
• Will take action, if required, on behalf or
  against an organisation or service

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Thank you

• Any questions?