Latest news in Yorkshire: April 04, 2019 12:55:56 PM
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Barnsley Safeguarding Children Board is now known as the Barnsley
Safeguarding Children Partnership.
This is in response to the changes set out in the latest version of the
‘Working Together’ guidance document published in July 2018 which sets
out the new national arrangements for partnership working to safeguard
children and young people.
Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) have been a statutory
requirement since 2004 with each local authority having the
responsibility to establish one for their area.
In 2015, in response to a number of disappointing outcomes nationally of
LSCB inspections, the Government commissioned Alan Wood CBE to lead a
review of LSCBs. Alan Wood’s review recommended the abolition of LSCBs
and that they should be replaced by a stronger partnership of the key
statutory partners, police, health and local authorities who would
determine local safeguarding arrangements. Those recommendations were
accepted by the Government that has made the necessary changes to
legislation.
The further detail was set out in Working Together 2018.
In Barnsley this has been seen as an opportunity to build on the
strengths of existing arrangements. The verbal feedback to the OFSTED
Inspection of Children’s’ Services in 2018 recognised that the Barnsley
Safeguarding Children Board was ‘robust and effective’.
The new arrangements, published on the council’s dedicated safeguarding
page incorporate the changes required by Working Together 2018 while
retaining features that are considered to be strengths.
The Partnership will look to learn from other areas as it embeds its new
arrangements and in particular those areas that were selected as ‘Early
Adopters’.
Bob Dyson, the Independent Chair of Barnsley Safeguarding Children Board
will continue to chair the partnership board under the new arrangements.
He said: “The Barnsley Safeguarding Children Board has played an
important role in the improvements that have taken place in safeguarding
children, acknowledged by Ofsted in their 2018 Inspection which rated
Barnsley Council Children’s Services as ‘Good’.
“The Barnsley Safeguarding Children Partnership will continue that work,
building on existing strengths and reinforcing our commitment to keeping
Children and Young People Safe. I am pleased to be able to say that
Barnsley has strong partnership arrangements for safeguarding our young
people.”
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