Agenda

Children's Safeguarding Policy and Practice Advisory Committee
Tuesday, 1st April, 2014 7.30 pm

Venue: Civic Centre, High Road, Wood Green, London N22 8LE. View directions

Contact: Ayshe Simsek 2929

Items
No.	Item
1.	Apologies for absence View the background to item 1.
2.	Urgent business View the background to item 2. The Chair will consider the admission of late items of urgent business. Late items will be considered under the agenda item they appear. New items will be dealt with at Items 8 &12 below.
3.	Declarations of interest View the background to item 3. A member with a disclosable pecuniary interest or a prejudicial interest in a matter who attends a meeting of the authority at which the matter is considered: (i) must disclose the interest at the start of the meeting or when the interest becomes apparent, and (ii) may not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must withdraw from the meeting room. A member who discloses at a meeting a disclosable pecuniary interest which is not registered in the Register of Members’ Interests or the subject of a pending notification must notify the Monitoring Officer of the interest within 28 days of the disclosure. Disclosable pecuniary interests, personal interests and prejudicial interests are defined at Paragraphs 5-7 and Appendix A of the Members’ Code of Conduct.
4.	Minutes PDF 85 KB View the background to item 4. To consider the minutes of the meeting held on 23 January 2014.
5.	Matters Arising PDF 54 KB To consider the agenda plan.
6.	Performance PDF 105 KB This report sets out performance data and trends for an agreed set of measures relating to: Children and Families - Contacts, referrals, assessments and Child Protection - current performance to February 2014. Additional documents: CPAC February performance highlights 2014 Appendix A , item 6. PDF 56 KB Monthly reporting Scorecard _FEB 14wCommentsv3 , item 6. PDF 1 MB
7.	Follow up LADO report At the last meeting Members requested a follow up report by the LADO Answering broader questions on the interaction with the LADO. Identifying trends behind the data and reporting on this Providing an assessment of the awareness of the LADO by checking procedures for reporting into the LADO and how effective these are Providing some comparative data There will be an update to the committee on the progress of this work.
8.	Update from the Officer performance group At the meeting in January, the Committee agreed to have an update on the work of this officer performance group considering contacts, referrals and child protection plans. Verbal Update
9.	Any new items of Urgent Business View the background to item 9. To consider any new items of urgent business as per item 2.
10.	OUTCOMES FOR CHILDREN SUBJECT TO CHILD PROTECTION PLANS PDF 99 KB At the September 2013 meeting of the Children’s Safeguarding Policy and Performance Advisory Committee members were concerned about outcomes for children subject to Child Protection Plans (CPP) and asked the Independent member to take forward a qualitative audit examining whether the intended outcomes of the plan have been achieved.
11.	Motion to Exclude the press and Public The press and public will be excluded from the meeting for consideration of the following items as they contain exempt information as defined in section 100a of the local government act 1972 (as amended by section 12A of the local government act 1985) paragraphs 1&2&3 namely information relating to an individual and information likely to reveal the identity of an individual.
12.	Outcomes for Children Subject to Child Protection Plans View the reasons why item 12. is restricted To consider exempt information pertaining to agenda item 9.
13.	New Items of Exempt Business To consider new items of exempt urgent business as per item 2.
14.	Date of the next meeting 14^th July 2014 7.30pm - tbc