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LSCB Subcommittees 2008 - 2011 - Terms of reference
Sub committees are commissioned by the LSCB and their work plans agreed by the LSCB. Thus they drive the LSCB strategy and work plan and are responsible for setting and scrutinizing safeguarding standards across the services, To achieve this they require commitment from every agency and the provision of appropriate expertise to ensure that outcomes are realized.
Some sub committees have specific and detailed areas of responsibility, and some have shifting areas which can be time limited and determined by the needs of the LSCB work programme.
All LSCB sub committees are commissioned by the LSCB and focus on delivering on allocated outcomes in the work plan. They are accountable for these areas of work.
Some sub committees have a mandatory core membership, and in these attendance at every meeting by core agencies is essential unless the Chair has agreed for an agency not to attend. Other agencies may be invited to attend as appropriate for a specific purpose.
Each executive member of the LSCB and their operational member must decide who is the most appropriate person to attend the sub committees from their agency. It is the responsibility of each agency to ensure that the nominated group member has the time and capacity to attend and be prepared to performance manage lack of attendance.
Sub committees will meet as often as the work demands and dates will be set in advance each year.
- Are responsible for developing the sub committee work plan and delivering key outcomes within the set timescales by coordinating joint agency work, allocating specific tasks to other group members to carry out, tracking and reporting progress back to the Board.
- Chairs should prioritize attendance and nominate a vice chair to cover for them in their absence.
- Must keep a record of attendance and a note of whether other members are delivering on their agenda.
- Must alert the Board to blocks to progress or failure by any individual agencies to engage.
- Discuss any non-attendance by core agencies in advance.
- Chairs must ensure that a minute of the meeting is taken and agreed with the members and distributed within ten working days using the DLT template. The minutes will be published on the LSCB website as public documents
- Chairs will ensure that the meetings are well administered, that agencies receive their invitations, agendas and papers a week in advance where-ever possible.
- Chairs must provide minutes of all meeting to full LSCB at each meeting for scrutiny, report to the Board on the progress of the plan and supply statistical feedback where requested by the Board.
1) Performance and Monitoring Sub committee - mandatory group - Chair Doreen Redwood, the CYPS Divisional Manager with responsibility for performance and monitoring
The Performance and Monitoring sub committee is responsible for the following:
- Identifying, and collating a data set of multi agency PIs around safeguarding with which the LSCB can monitor effectiveness and progress. Provide a report on safeguarding performance for the Board on at least a quarterly basis.
- Identifying and commissioning multi agency audits on core activity in relation to safeguarding children at risk of significant harm to measure quality
- Undertaking, or commissioning service user feedback on safeguarding to measure user feedback and benchmarking the impact of services on service users.
- Analyzing the data and reporting back to the LSCB with recommendations for ways forward and strategies.
- Monitoring to ensure that lessons from serious case reviews are embedded in the LSCB partner organizations.
- Section 11 Audit on bi annual basis
Each agency must provide a senior lead with strategic responsibility in their organization.
2) Policy and Procedure Group - Chair: Cathy Blair, AD Safeguarding, CYPS
The Policy sub committee s responsible for: the following
- Write or revise procedures around safeguarding and ensure that they are up to date, legally appropriate, and reflect best practice.
- Ensure the implementation of each policy in each agency and support any integrated work needed to brief and support the delivery of policy implementation.
- Liaise with the training group around commissioning and or delivering training.
- Coordinating the launch of the Child Protection Procedures and new policies.
- Develop and review the strategic plan
3) Safer Recruitment and Allegations Management Sub committee -
Chair: Cathy Blair, AD Safeguarding, CYPS
The sub committee is responsible for:
- Development of a set of safe recruitment practices across the children’s work force
- A set of good practice standards, policies and procedures around handling allegations against staff Monitoring of allegations and the LADO reporting system
- A multi agency data set on allegations made against staff.
- An audit of processes and procedures around these standards.
- Integration of standards in contracted services and the voluntary and community sector
Senior managers from each agency in either HR or operations must attend.
4) Joint Child Death Review Panel :
The Child Death Review Panel work will be co chaired by Southwark’s Service Manager, Malcolm Ward, and Cathy Blair, Lambeth’s Assistant Director for Safeguarding.
The Child Death Review Panel staff will be employed by Southwark a joint board follows recommendations in Working Together for population coverage. Added value, and economies are derived from the inclusion of tertiary hospitals St Thomas’ and Kings who serve both Lambeth and Southwark children.
The Panel is responsible for the following:
- Reviewing deaths of all Lambeth and Southwark children
- Producing an annual report
Rapid Response short term working group
Lambeth Safeguarding Board has driven the development of Rapid Response in respect to “unexpected deaths”.
The working group has been responsible for the following:
- New protocols and pathways for unexplained child deaths in accordance with Working Together to Safeguard Children 2006
- Setting up Single Point of Contact for child death notification on behalf of LSCB
- Monitoring and reviewing practice as it emerges and adjusting protocols in the light of experience
5) LSCB Training Sub committee: Chair: Doreen Redwood, Divisional Director for CYPS, with responsibility for Workforce Development.
This group has responsibility for the following:
- Reviewing the training strategy and updating it in line with in Working Together to Safeguard Children 2006
- Identifying mandatory and discretionary training according to role
- Developing an induction pack for new staff
- Designing and delivering training as agreed by the LSCB reflecting the Training needs analysis
- Auditing multiagency training needs
- Evaluating the effectiveness of training
- Scrutinizing safeguarding training provided by agencies
- Developing a training pool for the LSCB
- Developing an annual training plan
- Ensuring that the LSCB training is integrated within the workforce development strategy and reflects the Common Core Skills and Knowledge of the Children’s Workforce and other Internal Management Reviews
- Provide quarterly statistical training reports to the Board.
6) Promotion of Safeguarding Sub committee:
Chaired by Michael Benaim, Assistant Director, Social Care.
The sub committee is responsible for the following:
- Develop a plan for promoting community awareness of safeguarding and ensuring adults and children know how to report concerns to Social care if concerned about a child.
- Develop and distribute the Good Parenting Handbook, and monitor its effectiveness
- Creating awareness about Private Fostering
- Producing a campaign to reduce accidents in the home and outside the home.
- Map and review services for children subject to bullying
- Develop an internet safety strategy in Lambeth
- Ensure that thresholds and eligibility criteria for targeted and specialist services are widely understood, and enable children to access the help they need from the right resource at the right time.
7) Adult Services Group - George Marshman, Divisional Director Adult Services
This group incorporates mental health issues, domestic violence work, substance misuse, mental health and other adult concerns.
The sub committee are responsible for the following:
- To develop a review of services for domestic violence and undertake a needs assessments To liaise with the Performance and Monitoring Group to produce and analyse audits around domestic violence. To monitor and improve the safeguarding of children who are placed at risk from mental health problems and support and cross reference with the Policy Sub-committee in the implementation and dissemination of the Mental Health Protocol. Monitoring and improving the safeguarding of children who may be at risk in an environment where adult’s services are involved Development and implementation of the Mental Health Protocol. To improve transitions between children and adults services.
8) Serious Case Review Sub committee:
The sub committee is Chaired by Yashi Shah, Divisional Director for Social Care.
The sub committee is responsible for the following:
- Assess whether the threshold for a Serious Case Review has been met and what action needs to be undertaken where the threshold has not been met but where the case raises concerns around multi agency practice.
- Recommend whether to undertake a SCR or not to the LSCB Chair.
- Undertake Serious Case Reviews in accordance with Working Together to Safeguard Children 2006 within timescales.
- Quality assure the standard of each agency report,
- Commissioning an overview report, identifying the multi agency lessons, and reporting back to the LSCB on learning with recommendations for action.
- Develop the multi agency action plan for Serious Case Reviews, and implement the action plan in each agency.
- Scrutinize the implementation of SCR action plan Report back to the LSCB on progress against targets
- Evaluate learning from national research into Serious Case Reviews, to review agency practice and policy and develop and implement an action plan in line with the Policy Group and Training Sub-committee.
- In cases where the threshold is not met for SCR commission audits or case reviews to identify whether there are any lessons for future practice