Issue - meetings
Local Safeguarding Children Board Annual Report 2018-19
Meeting: 17/11/2020 - Tower Hamlets Health and Wellbeing Board (Item 5)
5 Safeguarding Children Partnership Annual Report 2019-20 PDF 311 KB
Additional documents:
- THSCP Annual Report 19-20 v7, item 5 PDF 3 MB
- Webcast for Safeguarding Children Partnership Annual Report 2019-20
Minutes:
The Board received a presentation from James Thomas (Corporate Director for Children and Culture - LBTH) on the Safeguarding Children’s Partnership Annual Report 2019-20 that describe a year of transition into the new safeguarding arrangements for children following a change in the law and the statutory guidance. A summary of the discussion is set out below:
The Board noted that:
- The first of the key changes was that leadership of the Safeguarding Children's Partnership is now a shared by three of the statutory partners and namely the Council; Metropolitan Police Service (MPS); and the Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs).
- The second key change was the requirements are for an Independent Scrutineer who provides experienced support and challenge to the partners and is involved in many aspects of the work to ensure the partnership is working in the best way to deliver better outcomes for children and young people in Tower Hamlets.
- The third key change is that the Partnership will continue to manage risk for children and young people in the Borough primarily through a supportive response. Also whilst statutory reviews will be undertaken it will be in a new and different way, scrutinise policy and procedures of partners, set priorities for the partners where the partnership will work collectively to improve areas across safeguarding, provide multi-agency training and guidance and be a platform for partnership.
- The Partnership will continue to manage risk for children and young people in the Borough primarily through a supportive response.
- Benchmarking shows relatively low rates of children in care or subject to protection plans and there has been a particular focus in the past year on (i) education safeguarding; (ii) joint domestic abuse training; and (iii) the standing priority around an exploitation with sexual and criminal exploitation of young people.
- The Partnership will build on those foundations and bring more rigour to its work with a particular focus on the use of data from all partners. Also, more use of quality assurance findings from multi-agency audits and learning reviews and more rigour in the use of the voices of children young people.
- The Partnership is currently setting priorities going forwards and that, that work is going well in engaging all partners as well as the views of young people and their families.
- The 2020-21 Annual Report will be clearer in its analysis about (i) what the Partnership are doing well; (ii) where there are areas to be developed; and (iii) clearer about the evidence of the impact; and
- The action planning that has gone on in the Partnership demonstrates (i) a commitment to partnership working in the fullest sense of the word; and (ii) an ambition to make it make a real change.
In conclusion, the Chair:
- Thanked James Thomas for his presentation; and
- Then Moved and it was RESOLVED to note Safeguarding Children’s Partnership Annual Report 2019-20.
Meeting: 30/10/2019 - Cabinet (Item 6)
6 Safeguarding Children Board Annual Report 2018-19 PDF 398 KB
Additional documents:
- Appendix 1 - Local Safeguarding Children Board Annual Report 2018-19, item 6 PDF 2 MB
- Webcast for Safeguarding Children Board Annual Report 2018-19
Decision:
DECISION
1. To note content of the LSCB Annual Report 2018-19
2. To note the specific equalities considerations as set out in paragraph 4.1 of the report.
Action by:
CORPORATE DIRECTOR, CHILDREN AND CULTURE (D. JONES)
(Safeguarding Children Strategy and Governance Manager (M. Bakht)
Minutes:
Councillor Danny Hassell, Cabinet Member for Children, Schools and Young People, introduced the report setting out the Annual Report of the Safeguarding Children’s Board.
He explained that this was the final report under these arrangements with a new partnership arrangement replacing the Board from the summer of 2019. He highlighted a number of points from the report including:
· The report set out the vital work undertaken by the Council and its partners.
· This also demonstrated the commitment of partners such as the police to tackling these issues.
· Partnership working made an important contribution to the Council’s ‘Good’ OFSTED rating.
· There was a significant growth in child protection cases due to neglect with poverty being a clear related issue.
Finally he placed on record his thanks to Stephen Ashley who had chaired the Board for the last two years.
The Mayor echoed the thanks to Stephen Ashley and the board as a whole. He also thanked the partners, officers and Lead Member for their support and he agreed the recommendations as set out.
RESOLVED
1. To note content of the LSCB Annual Report 2018-19
2. To note the specific equalities considerations as set out in paragraph 4.1 of the report.