Herefordshire Safeguarding Children Board Sample Clauses

Herefordshire Safeguarding Children Board. (HSCB) HSCB co-ordinates the safeguarding activities of its partner agencies and scrutinises and evaluates the effectiveness of what they do. The Board seeks to function strategically and will provide a lead to the Partnership on how the objectives of the Plan with respect to safeguarding are being progressed and delivered. The Independent Chair of the HSCB is a member of the Children and Young People’s Partnership Executive Group and will report on safeguarding issues through this meeting. Enhancements to the operational requirements for safeguarding, whether by securing improved performance or by the commissioning of service developments, will be led by the Children and Young People’s Partnership. A formal protocol agreement exists between the Partnership and the HSCB (see Appendix 2)
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Herefordshire Safeguarding Children Board. The role of HSCB is to co-ordinate the safeguarding activities of its partner agencies and to evaluate and scrutinise the effectiveness of what they do. Its functions are strategic and not operational. However it would expect to initiate activities which investigate and improve practice in safeguarding. It has the authority to call any agency represented on the partnership to account for its safeguarding activity. HSCB and its activities are part of the wider context of Children and Young People’s Partnership arrangements in Herefordshire. HSCB contributes to the wider goals of improving the well being of all children whilst being primarily focused on ensuring robust safeguarding arrangements for all children and young people in Herefordshire. Within the wider governance arrangements its role is to ensure the effectiveness of the arrangements made by individual agencies and the wider partnership to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. The HSCB will:  Take responsibility for monitoring actions to improve safeguarding, including action plans arising from Serious Case Reviews feeding back learning and undertaking audits to ensure that lessons have been learned.  Feed back results from the above activities to the Partnership, advising on ways to improve and highlight areas of underperformance  Ensure through regular evaluation that partner agencies comply with the duty to discharge their functions having regard to the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of children (Children Act 2004, s.11).  Hold the Children and Young People’s Partnership to account on matters of safeguarding in all its activities, providing appropriate challenge on performance and results of performance indicators  Initiate the development, regular review and active dissemination to all partner agencies of good practice Protocols to inform and assist multi-agency working  Highlight gaps in service for the Children and Young People’s Partnership to consider as part of its commissioning process work and propose solutions.  Provide quarterly formal reports on its findings from its scrutiny activity to the Children and Young People’s Partnership, including the annual report.  Invite the Lead Member to attend the HSCB as a participant observer Both organisations will  Have an ongoing and direct relationship, communicating regularly  Work together to ensure action taken by one body does not duplicate that taken by another  Ensure they are committed to working together t...
Herefordshire Safeguarding Children Board. The role of HSCB is to co-ordinate the safeguarding activities of its partner agencies and to evaluate and scrutinise the effectiveness of what they do. Its functions are strategic and not operational. However it would expect to initiate activities which investigate and improve practice in safeguarding. It has the authority to call any agency represented on the partnership to account for its safeguarding activity. HSCB and its activities are part of the wider context of Children and Young People’s Partnership arrangements in Herefordshire. HSCB contributes to the wider goals of improving the well being of all children whilst being primarily focused on ensuring robust safeguarding arrangements for all children and young people in Herefordshire. Within the wider governance arrangements its role is to ensure the effectiveness of the arrangements made by individual agencies and the wider partnership to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. The HSCB will: Take responsibility for monitoring actions to improve safeguarding, including action plans arising from Serious Case Reviews feeding back learning and undertaking audits to ensure that lessons have been learned. Feed back results from the above activities to the Partnership, advising on ways to improve and highlight areas of underperformance

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