Partnership Documents
In December 2023, the updated Working Together to Safeguard Children statutory guidance was published.
This is a summary of the changes outlined in Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023.
In 2024, we worked with local partners to review and revise a range documents. Our updated local arrangements describe how the safeguarding partners work together to identify and respond to the needs of children in the area; how we commission and publish local child safeguarding practice reviews and the arrangements for independent scrutiny. These arrangements can be read Here.
Partnership Agreement
The Partnership Agreement has been revised to reflect the new safeguarding arrangements under the Children Act 2004 and Working Together 2023 Guidance.
Code of Practice
The Code of Practice should be read in conjunction with the partnership agreement and relevant terms of reference, outlines expected standards of practice for OSCP members.
Policies
This outlines the criteria for complaints to be considered by Our Safeguarding Children Partnership (OSCP) and how OSCP will deal with such complaints. A flow chart is included.
The OSCP is only able to consider complaints which fall into one of two categories:
i) A complaint about OSCP
ii) A complaint about any aspect of OSCP multi-agency partnership child safeguarding provision
Most disagreements can be resolved through discussion and negotiation.
This policy identifies potential areas of disagreement, guidance on preventing disputes and procedures to be followed when disagreements or disputes cannot be resolved through discussion and negotiation between professionals at front line level.
This was formerly referred to as the Escalation Policy.