Quality and Assurance Performance Group / Audits
Working Together to Safeguard Children (2018) states that "the safeguarding partners should be clear how they will assure themselves that relevant agencies have appropriate, robust safeguarding policies and procedures in place and how information will be shared amongst all relevant agencies and the safeguarding partners".
The role of the Quality Assurance and Performance Group (QA&P) is to provide, on behalf of Our Safeguarding Children Partnership, an objective overview of the effectiveness of child safeguarding across individual organisations and multi-agency partnership working.
The Quality Assurance and Performance Group:
- Monitors multi-agency data to assess the effectiveness of help being provided to children and families
- Oversees a multi-agency audit process and Section 11 reviews
- Monitors issues identified through Quality Assurance and Scrutiny Panels
- Develops new ways of determining and commenting on effectiveness
Audits provide an opportunity to:
- reflect on the quality of multi-agency working practice
- learn from and build on existing good practice and identify lessons learned.
It is important that the learning arising from audits is shared across the partnership and audit findings are presented to the Practice Review Sub-group. Quality assured audit reports are shared with the Learning Group and other relevant work-streams. QA&P group members are responsible for the monitoring the implementation of the recommendations to ensure lessons learnt are embedded into practice to improve outcomes for children.
Audit programme 2021-22
|
Focus |
Dates |
| Audit 1 |
Safeguarding in Early years Analysis of cases (2-5 years) referred to MARU; source of referral; MARU response – advice, Early Help, CP; multi-agency involvement with family support
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Completed April 2022
Report to be finalised
|
| Audit 2 |
Domestic abuse cases where a child is present; effectiveness of identification; prioritisation of child’s needs; quality of family assessment and safeguarding planning; engaging with family including the child. |
Completed |
| Audit 3 (repeat) |
Repeat multi-agency audit of the use and impact of the Teen Pregnancy Pathway
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Report expected May 22 |
| Audit 4 |
Working with Fathers Quantitative – what is recorded; one year on, follow on from Dad’s questionnaire
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Further work tba |
Completed audit reports are available on request:
- Domestic Abuse audit report
- Emotional Health & Wellbeing audit report
- Medical needs of CSA victims follow on audit report
- Vulnerable Adolescents – non MACE children with identified exploitation needs – including Transition cases audit report
- Neglect audit report including deep dive follow on report
Quality Assurance and Performance Group terms of reference