The Children and Social Work Act 2017 and Working Together 2023 introduced new arrangements for safeguarding children. Warwickshire Safeguarding Children Partnership has introduced a model for safeguarding that will allow us to develop a family focused approach through increased multi agency collaboration.
Our new partnership arrangements are designed to support and enable local organisations and agencies to work together in a system where:
- children and young people are safeguarded and their welfare promoted
- partner organisations and agencies collaborate, have joint an equal responsibility for safeguarding children and young people across Warwickshire, and share and co-own the vision for how to achieve improved outcomes for vulnerable children and young people.
- establish Education as a fourth safeguarding partner in addition to the three key statutory agencies: Health, Police, and Children's Services.
- organisations and agencies challenge appropriately and hold one another to account effectively
- introducing the role of Independent Scrutineer to the partnership, providing challenge, support and guidance
- there is early identification and analysis of new safeguarding issues and emerging threats
- learning is promoted and embedded in a way that local services for children and young people can become more reflective and implement changes to practice
- information is shared effectively to facilitate more accurate and timely decision making for children and young people
- local data from all agencies is developed to strategically identify and respond to the underlying conditions and factors that lead to the need for help and protection
More information about the work of Warwickshire Safeguarding Children's Partnership can be found by visiting the following pages:
