Issue - meetings

To update the Committee on the Council’s child protection framework.

RECEIVED a presentation from the AD Safeguarding and Social Care, Sarah Alexander, which set out the child protection framework used by the Council and the key principles, disciplines and practises contained therein. Report included in the agenda pack (pages 5-11).

 NOTED in response to the discussion:

• The Committee queried whether there was any feedback from children and families who had come in contact with the model. Officers advised that there had been a lot of feedback and that their views had been incorporated in to the evaluation of the framework. Feedback from across the country had been overwhelmingly positive. One of the key advantages of the framework was simplicity and the fact that children and families could understand the process involved.
• In response to a question about the extent that Signs of Safety was rolled out across the authority, officers advised that it had been rolled out across Children’s Services but that it was most widely used in safeguarding and child protection assessments.