Priorities for 2024-25
To establish the safeguarding children priorities of 2024-25 the Executive considered the progress with the current priorities, learning from reviews, inspection findings, the reviewed Working together guidance, alongside an OBA event with partners and Takeover event with young people.
It was agreed that the priorities for 2024-25 should be:
- Domestic Abuse- children as victims.
- Safeguarding through Family Help
- Safeguarding Teenagers- serious youth violence and exploitation
These priorities will allow the partnership to continue the work established in 2023-24 and address emerging themes. The Executive will seek assurance regarding the response of the current safeguarding system to these areas and identify opportunities to develop practice and improve the outcomes for children in Leeds.
The outcomes related to these priorities and the impact of any development work will be outlined in the 2024-25 annual report.
Planned work for 2024-25
To ensure continuous improvement in safeguarding practice and to ensure momentum is maintained, the partnership have already committed to some areas of identified work for 2024-25:
- Publish the multi-agency safeguarding arrangements across Leeds and provide the Department of Education oversight of these arrangements by December 2024 in line with WTSC 23
- Oversee and monitor successful implementation of the JTAI multi agency action plan
- Undertaking a Partnership Health Check Self-Assessment
- Fully embedding of Working Together 2023
- Development of a robust and responsive audit and review programme
- Further develop systems to demonstrate impact and levels of assurance
- Further develop the voice and influence of children, young people, parents, carers and families, in particular those with experience of the safeguarding system.
- Embed Education as part of Executive and strengthening their voice at strategic level
- Further strengthen the voice of the third sector at all levels
- Revise the Neglect Strategy and further develop the tools that support best practice.
- Consideration of a multi-agency safeguarding supervision model
- Development of a practitioner group to enhance the linkage with and voice of front line staff.
- Development of a professional curiosity champions model
- Undertake a training needs analysis in relation to Serious Youth Violence
- Continue to develop opportunities for wider partnership work with Safer Leeds and Leeds Safeguarding Adult Board and other relevant Boards and Partnerships.
- Develop further the work with sports organisations
- Development a model to learn from what works well
- Establish a chairs and deputy chairs meeting to ensure joint working across subgroups.