The Children and Social Work Act 2017 and Working Together 2023 introduced new arrangements for safeguarding children.
The purpose of the Shropshire Safeguarding Children Partnership is to support and enable local organisations and agencies to work together to keep children safe, and ensure that:
- Children are safeguarded and their welfare promoted through collaboration between families, community members, volunteers, and professionals at all levels of the workforce from the frontline to senior leaders across all relevant agencies;
- Relevant agencies collaborate, share and co-own the vision for how to achieve improved outcomes for vulnerable children;
- Local agencies use mutual challenge appropriately and hold one another to account effectively including through escalation and dispute resolution, audit, performance and data reviews and the Section 11 safeguarding self evaluation process;
- There is early identification and analysis of new safeguarding issues and emerging threats;
- Multi-agency working and learning is promoted and embedded in a way that local services for children and families can become more reflective and implement changes to practice. Together we will provide effective and evaluated multi-agency training, guidance, learning and development tools, case reviews, eLearning and written briefings;
- Inclusive practice means that families and their voices are at the centre of our work and that equality, diversity and inclusion are promoted and expected and discrimination is challenged;
- Children and families are enabled to input into identifying safeguarding priorities, monitoring outcomes and influencing service development;
- At every level, Strategic Leaders ensure that resources are shared, prioritised and are more than adequate for the local work; managers ensure children receive holistic support; and practitioners build strong relationships across all agencies and sectors to promote the wellbeing of children.
More information about the work of Shropshire Safeguarding Children Partnership can be found by visiting the following pages: