Sheffield Children Safeguarding Partnership

The Executive Partnership Group has a wide strategic membership of key stakeholders and relevant agencies, including schools, probation services, the lead member for children’s services and health providers. The Executive Partnership Group propels the work of the Partnership, in line with the vision and values. This group develops, delivers, and oversees the agreed annual plan and directs the Partnership’s subgroups into implementation of the plan.

LPIG identifies multi-agency safeguarding learning needs that require addressing to ensure partner agencies develop their workforces to a high-quality standard and are keeping children safe. The group also has oversight of the SCSP’s Learning Cycle to ensure effective join up across the whole system.

The VYPEB oversees the delivery of the contextual safeguarding strategy and action plan to monitor the multi-agency response to this cohort of young people. This is co-chaired by the Director for Children and Families and South Yorkshire Police.

The Audit and Performance Group is responsible for analysing multi-agency safeguarding performance data to inform the Partnership Executive Group of relevant trends and risks.

The purpose of the Case Review subgroup is to support the SCSP’s statutory function in responding to and managing serious child safeguarding incidents. The CSR subgroup will be responsible for the implementation and review of action plans and learning following either a Rapid Review or Child Safeguarding Practice Review, including learning from relevant local Domestic Homicide Reviews.

The Hidden Harm group are responsible for overseeing the work of the 21-25 Hidden Harm strategy and implantation plan. A strategy to identify, support, safeguard and improve the health and well-being of families where there is drug and alcohol misuse, domestic abuse, harmful gambling and or mental ill health.

The purpose of the Child Death Overview Panel is to:

• Review the deaths of all children (excluding those babies who are stillborn and planned terminations of pregnancy carried out within the law) up to the age of 18 years normally resident in the Sheffield area.
• To identify any wider health, public health or safety concerns arising from a particular death or from a pattern of deaths in Sheffield.
• To make recommendations to the Local Safeguarding Partners or other relevant bodies to prevent future similar deaths where possible.

The purpose of the Effectiveness steering group is to facilitate the development of a culture of continuous learning and improvement from reviews across the entire safeguarding system in Sheffield. The Effectiveness subgroup will be responsible for reviewing local learning following either a Rapid Review or Child Safeguarding Practice Review, Safeguarding Adult Review or Domestic Homicide Review.

The Effectiveness steering group will also consider learning from Multi Agency Audits, Joint Case Reviews, Adult Learning Lessons Reviews and Domestic Abuse Serious Incident Reviews.

MAAG sits within the learning and practice improvement group framework. Three cases a year are selected for multi-agency audit and the process requires each agency involved with the individual to complete an audit and brief chronology. Following this, agencies meet to discuss the case.

The purpose is to highlight area of strengths and good practice for both single agencies and in partnership working, areas requiring improvement, areas of identified learning and emerging themes to enable a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

The Neglect steering group are responsible for overseeing the work of the 21-24 Neglect strategy and implantation plan. The strategy aims to ensure that the early recognition of neglect and

improved responses by all agencies reduces the number of

children who need statutory intervention and when this is required the life chances of children are promptly improved and the risk of harm reduced.

The purpose of the group is to bring together professionals in Sheffield working with children and young people who are victims of domestic abuse to ensure that all stakeholders are aware of the change in legislation and to take a multi-agency approach to review and understand current provision for children as victims of domestic abuse in Sheffield.

The education steering group provides a forum for representatives from education settings, services & providers across the Sheffield Children Safeguarding Partnership boundaries to identify, review, and innovatively address safeguarding challenges within education. This is done through a project-based approach which focuses on developing or improving local practice.