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Annual report 2014-15

Sally Halls Independent Chair

Herefordshire Safeguarding Children Board

The LSCB

(a) To coordinate what is done by each person or body represented on the Board for the purposes

• f safeguarding and promoting the welfare of

children in the area; and (b) to ensure the effectiveness of what is done by each such person or body for those purposes.

Herefordshire Safeguarding Children Board

The annual report

• the effectiveness of child safeguarding and promoting the

welfare of children in Herefordshire

• a

rigorous and transparent assessment

• f

the performance and effectiveness of local services

• - identify areas of weakness, the causes of those

weaknesses, the action being taken to address them as well as other proposals for action

• include lessons from reviews undertaken within the

reporting period.

Herefordshire Safeguarding Children Board

Performance and effectiveness of local arrangements

• Services for safeguarding children and young people in

Herefordshire have only recently improved since they were judged to be inadequate in the Ofsted inspection of child protection in 2012. No widespread or serious failures were identified by this inspection that currently left children being harmed or at risk of harm. However, progress to improve how children are safeguarded has been slow and many improvements are very recent. Too many of the areas for development from the inspection in 2012 continue to be areas that require improvement.

• (Ofsted 2014)

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Effectiveness of LSCB

• The effectiveness of the LSCB requires

improvement

• (Ofsted 2014)

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Conclusion

• Are we doing the right things?
• Are we making sufficient progress?
• Are we managing risk safely and appropriately?
• Is the LSCB making sufficient progress?
• What impact is the Board having?

Herefordshire Safeguarding Children Board

Challenges for 2015-16

• Challenges to the Children and Young People’s Partnership
• Promoting early help for families, developing the “Think Family”

approach and culture across the Partnership;

• Improving the emotional and mental health and well-being of

children, young people, and their parents and carers;

• Meeting the needs of children and young people requiring

safeguarding.

• Challenges to the Health and Wellbeing Board, the Safeguarding

Adults Board and the Community Safety Partnership

• Promoting more integrated multi‐agency working in responding to

children and young people who live in the context of ‘compromised parenting’ (where there are adult issues of domestic violence, substance misuse, mental health problems and learning disability); Supporting young people to make the transition to adulthood successfully.

• Challenges for the LSCB itself

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Priorities 2015 onwards

• Improve the recognition and response to child

sexual exploitation (CSE) and missing children and young people.

• Support increased resilience in individuals,

families and communities.

• Safeguard and promote the welfare of children

and young people who are abused and/or neglected.

• HSCB is a truly effective agent for change that

has a real impact for children and young people.