Public Document Pack Town Hall Trinity Road www.sefton.gov.uk Bootle L20 7AE To: All Members of the Health and Wellbeing Date: 14 September 2015 Board Our Ref: H&WB Your Ref: Please contact: Ruth Harrison Contact Number: 0151 934 2042 Fax No: 0151 934 2034 e-mail: [email protected] Dear Board Member HEALTH AND WELLBEING BOARD - WEDNESDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER, 2015 I refer to the agenda for the above meeting and now enclose the following report which was unavailable when the agenda was printed. Agenda No. Item 9. The Local Safeguarding Children's Board - Draft Annual Report (Pages 59 - 146) Report of the Chair of Sefton’s Local Safeguarding Children’s Board Yours sincerely, J. COULE Head of Regulation and Compliance This page is intentionally left blank Agenda Item 9 Report to: Health & Wellbeing Board Date of Meeting: 16 September 2015 Subject: LSCB Annual Report Report of: Dr David Sanders Wards Affected: N/A Is this a Key Decision - No Is it included in the Forward Plan - No Exempt/Confidential Purpose/Summary All Local Safeguarding Children Boards must report annually on the effectiveness of local safeguarding children arrangements and the progress of the LSCB in relation to implementing work against its agreed priorities. The report must be shared with and considered by the Health and Well-being Board, Police and Crime Commissioner and Chief Executive of the Local Authority. Recommendation(s) The Health and Wellbeing Board should make particular note of key elements contained within the LSCB Annual Report, in particular those relating to Child Sexual Exploitation and Child Neglect; and consider how these aspects inform the Sefton Strategic Needs Assessment and/or can be progressed. Additional Information • Due to the lateness of some submissions to the annual report whilst the LSCB Business Manager is on annual leave, there remain gaps in this document. The final version will be submitted to the forthcoming LSCB meeting, 30 September 2015. A late submission of the LSCB Annual Report to the agenda of this meeting was requested, in its current state of development. • One aspect of data re. CSE needs additional explanation to enable the reader to fully understand how data interrelates, however all data in this section is accurate. • The LSCB must produce an evaluation of the effectiveness of work to tackle CSE. A CSE Health Needs Analysis is currently underway. This has involved a series of activities including an extensive consultation with young people. The final report will be available in October and an evaluative summary will be added as an addendum to this report. The full CSE Health Needs Analysis will be reported to the next meeting of the Health and Wellbeing Board. • Formatting of the document will be undertaken following all sections of the report being completed. Given that the Health and Wellbeing Board has not had the opportunity to digest all key learning that will be available within the final version, an extended executive summary highlighting key areas can be made available to the Health and Wellbeing Board at the Page 59 Agenda Item 9 next meeting, if required by members. How does the decision contribute to the Council’s Corporate Objectives? Corporate Objective Positive Neutral Negative Impact Impact Impact 1 Creating a Learning Community X 2 Jobs and Prosperity X 3 Environmental Sustainability X 4 Health and Well-Being X 5 Children and Young People X 6 Creating Safe Communities X 7 Creating Inclusive Communities X 8 Improving the Quality of Council X Services and Strengthening Local Democracy Reasons for the Recommendation: The learning highlighted within the LSCB Annual Report was gained via a range of mechanisms and should be progressed to ensure safeguarding children arrangements in Sefton are effective. What will it cost and how will it be financed? Existing services will co-ordinate activities to support effective safeguarding children arrangements. H&WBB will consider any aspects of the report that have commissioning/service design implications. (A) Revenue Costs There are no financial consequences directly arising as a result of this report, which is provided for information. The costs of managing the LSCB and associated Social Care costs are contained within the Council’s budgets and/or those of Partner agencies. (B) Capital Costs N/A Implications: Page 60 Agenda Item 9 The following implications of this proposal have been considered and where there are specific implications, these are set out below: Legal The Health and Social Care Act 2012, Local Authority (Public Health, Health and Wellbeing Boards and Health Scrutiny) Regulations 2013; Working Together 2015 Human Resources Equality 1. No Equality Implication X 2. Equality Implications identified and mitigated 3. Equality Implication identified and risk remains Impact on Service Delivery: N/A What consultations have taken place on the proposals and when? N/A The Head of Corporate Finance and ICT has been consulted on this report and has no specific comments to make, as there are no financial consequences arising directly as a result of it. (FD3802/15) The Head of Regulation & Compliance has been consulted and has no comments to make (LD 3085/15) Are there any other options available for consideration? N/A Implementation Date for the Decision Immediately following the Committee meeting. Contact Officer: Clare Lawson Tel: 0151 934 3366 Email: [email protected] Background Papers: Page 61 This page is intentionally left blank Page 62 Page 63 Sefton Local Safeguarding Children Board Agenda Item9 ANNUAL REPORT 2014-15 Agenda Item9 Contents Page 1. Chair’s Introduction and Executive Summary All formatting to be done 2. Local Population and Services when final report is completed 3. The Work of the LSCB Progress against last year’s priorities Some of our achievements Structure of the Board Sub-group Work 4. Performance Information 5. LSCB Effectiveness Page 64 6. Independent Board Member Perspective on 2013-14 7. The work of LSCB Member Agencies 8. Learning and Improvement 9. The Plan for 2014-15; and how we will do it 10. Messages for our Stakeholders Appendices 1 1. LSCB Chair’s Introduction & Executive Summary This year has seen a wide range of activity by the Board and our partner agencies with a sharpened focus on learning from practice via multi-agency audit and performance data. This report highlights achievements as well as areas requiring more attention during the forthcoming year. The work of the Board and its sub-groups is co-ordinated by the LSCB Business Team. Previously, the need for additional resource within the team was identified, to lead on multi-agency safeguarding data and quality assurance. During this year, a new post of LSCB Quality Assurance Co-ordinaotr was recruited. The team currently consists of Clare Lawson, LSCB Business Manager; Neil Massingham, LSCB Quality Assurance Co-ordinator, Beverley Hall, LSCB Learning and Development Officer; Donna Atkinson, LSCB Administrator. Page 65 Key Achievements in 2014/15 Each year the Board approves a Business plan containing agreed priorities. Over the course of the year, almost all of these targets have been met. The key achievements this year are: Child Sexual Exploitation processes were embedded across the partnership 918 staff and volunteers were trained on a broad range of topics delivered by the LSCB Agenda Item9 LSCB thresholds for Intervention were reinforced across the children’s workforce . Sefton Multi-agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) reported that the application of thresholds at the point of referral has improved. Sefton LSCB also saw evidence of this at a multi- agency development session. Operation Encompass – a process whereby schools are notified of domestic abuse incidents in the home prior to the start of the next school day – was rolled out across all Sefton schools 2 Agenda Item9 Our Self-Assessment Each year, the LSCB must take stock of its own effectiveness and evaluate where the Board’s attention is required the most. Examination of the Board’s work and structure against the Ofsted framework enables areas of strength and development to be highlighted. This year, the Board began to focus more on learning from frontline practice. A specialist quality assurance post was recruited to and a new rigourous model of multi-agency audit was commenced, which fully involves practitioners and aims to understand the quality of frontline practice, how good quality practice is enabled or hindered, a nd the child’s journey through different elements of the safeguarding system. An audit schedule was devised and approved by the Board following extensive consideration of available performance information and learning gained from reviews. The LSCB Business Team now has capacity to undertaken more multi-agency audits than scheduled. The capacity of the partnership needs to be assessed and the audit model fully embedded. Following this, the LSCB will need to increase the number of audits undertaken and the number of cases audited. The Sefton LSCB Learning and Improvement Framework is becoming increasingly robust and helpful. This key document enables Page 66 the LSCB to understand the themes emerging from practice and take action. Ultimately, it will assist the Board to carefully plan the work required to know that action has led to improvement. Key procedures were developed/updated during this year and will be launched during the forthcoming year; at which point, testing the application of these procedures will also take place. A workforce analysis of training needs has helped the Board to plan a training programme based on need. It will also assist the Board in monitoring that the people ideniified as needing training do gain access to that training. Understanding the effectiveness of training on frontline practice is an area that requires further work. The Learning and Improvement Framework will assist the LSCB with this aspect of its responsbilties as it is increasingly developed.