CHORLEY, SOUTH RIBBLE & WEST LANCASHIRE CHILDREN'S PARTNERSHIP BOARD NOTES OF MEETING HELD ON THURSDAY, 14 DECEMBER 2017 AT CABINET & COMMITTEE ROOM, 52 DERBY STREET, ORMSKIRK, L39 2DF
Present: Sarah Ashcroft CPB Co-ordinator Chorley Council Rachel Austen Intervention and Prevention Officer Chorley Council Simon Burnett Deputy Director Leisure and Wellbeing West Lancs Council Michele Dacre Senior Probation Officer Cumbria and Lancs CRC Louise Elo(Chair) Head of Early Intervention and Support Chorley Council Mark Gaffney Head of Neighbourhood Services South Ribble Council Cllr Jacqui Mort Councillor South Ribble Council Laura Nuttall Business Co-ordinator LSCB Insp Julian Orniston Early Action Team Lancashire Police Sharon Phillips Service Manager Streetsafe CSE The Children’s Society Debra Wilson Head of Nursing LCFT Karl Worsley Partnership Manager DWP Apologies:
Michael Adamson Chief Inspector Lancashire Police Louise Burton Designated Lead Nurse CCG Donna Crank Assistant Head Penwortham Priory Academy Michelle Ferguson Manager Student Services West Lancs College Fiona Grieveson Head Teacher Kingsbury Primary School Michael Grime Business Co-ordinator LSCB Tim Grose Locality Manager WPEHS, LCC Donna Hussain Strategy and Development Manager VCFS Network Maria Lewis Team Manager Youth Offending Team County Cllr Perks County Councillor Lancashire County Council County Cllr Rear County Councillor Lancashire County Council
ACTION BY 1 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION/APOLOGIES
The chair welcomed everyone to the meeting and invited attendees to introduce themselves, apologies were noted as above.
2 MINUTES OF LAST MEETING AND MATTERS ARISING
Item 4, Laura Nuttall advised that the tender closed on Monday re the review of Children’s Trust, therefore the review should start in January 2018.
Item 3a, Rachel Austen confirmed that she has now spoken to Donna at VCFS. Also Hutton Grammar School have accepted the awareness training which will be delivered by Blast in Summer 2018.
The Chair said she thought it would be useful to understand what training has been undertaken for Chorley/South Ribble/West Lancs and look at what the gaps are.
Sharon Phillips said she can provide information of what the Sharon Children’s Society have done.
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Laura advised that they can look at what training schools have done, Rachel/Laura and possibly link in with the police and crime commission.
At item 5, Karl Worsley, DWP advised that the go live dates for Chorley and South Ribble have now changed to July 2018.
3 SAFEGUARDING
a LSCB
Laura gave an overview, she explained that there are currently two cases both within South Ribble, these are ongoing and include criminal investigations which means they could be delayed. Further updates will be provided.
Laura advised that a conference is taking place on 14th March ‘SAR/SCR Case Review Conference Day’ which will include key themes from learning further information will be shared.
The Risk Sensible Practice was launched in the summer briefings took place in October with approximately 600 people attending. The feedback received has been that there were not enough training dates, so additional dates have now been added so they will now take place each month.
Laura advised that the new Training Co-ordinator is Sarah Hargreaves, there is a backlog and she will be working on 2018/19 dates. Her contact email address is [email protected]
b Training
Louise explained that a further detailed discussion is needed with Sarah Hargreaves.
Louise asked if members of the CPB are accessing LSCB training, members agreed that this is being accessed in their individual agencies.
4 COUNTER TERRORISM
Rachel Austen advised that it’s been 12 months since the training was delivered, Chorley and South Ribble have had the WRAP training.
Rachel is looking at counter terrorism training in February 2018, Rachel will speak to the Police to look at what has already been delivered in schools.
Rachel said that she will forward a copy of the Concern Form used for Rachel information.
Members of the CPB agreed that counter terrorism training is high on everyone’s agenda.
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5 WELLBEING, PREVENTION AND EARLY HELP
Tim Grose was unable to attend the meeting, papers provided by Tim were circulate to members for their information.
Tim to be invited to the meeting in March. Sarah
6 CHILDREN'S SOCIETY
Sharon Phillip’s was in attendance for this item. A copy of the presentation is included with the minutes.
Sharon gave an overview of the work undertaken by the Children’s Society across Lancashire.
Sharon advised that unfortunately the funding for CSE has been cut and the team have now gone down to 1 from 6.
A discussion took place around the work they do including return home interviews, and involvement with victims and support provided.
7 WORKING TOGETHER TO SAFEGUARD CHILDREN – REVISIONS TO STATUTORY GUIDANCE
Laura advised that the LSCB will be submitting a collective response. Individual agencies are also encouraged to respond. Included in the papers is an annotated note. The closing date is 31 December, with the changes due to be in place by June 2019.
To submit individual agency responses please follow the link below:
https://consult.education.gov.uk/child-protection-safeguarding-and- family-law/working-together-to-safeguard-children-revisions-t/
If anyone has any comments they would like to be included these must be with Laura by Tuesday 19 December.
The Chair will share Chorley Councils response and circulate w/c 18 Chair December.
LSCB will continue to share information with us.
8 ONLINE SAFEGUARDING EVENT
The Chair gave an update on the event held in October.
If anyone feels there are any particular gaps this is something we could look at in the future.
Laura advised that the Online Safety Live Sessions is planned for 16th January 2018 at the Leyland Hotel. This is a half-day session and is targeted to multi-agencies.
9 ANY OTHER BUSINESS
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10 FUTURE CPB MEETING DATES
Thursday 22 March 10.00am, Committee Room 2, Town Hall, Chorley
June - TBC
June - TBC
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