Standards

The Safeguarding Children Service and SSCB will:

 

• Support and Advise Sheffield 0-19+ Partnership in their delivery of children’s services that safeguard and promote the welfare of children

 

• Facilitate inter-agency and inter-professional communication, information sharing and collaboration

 

• Work to reconcile the different organisational responsibilities and ensure lines of accountability for interagency work

 

• Ensure agencies demonstrate effectiveness in their safeguarding work and that they are held accountable to SSCB for efficiently cooperating with other services

 

• Advocate on behalf of the needs of children and young people, and ensure that they are consulted

 

• Work in partnership with parents whenever possible and consult to obtain their views

 

• Pursue its mandate to audit and improve safeguarding practice

 

• Promote the responsibility of communities in safeguarding children

 

• Support the role of the voluntary, faith and community sectors in safeguarding children

 

• Protect children from significant harm in the wider context of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children within universal children’s services

 

• Promote the understanding that support to families requires both care and control, in order to achieve improvements in the parental care of children

 

• Work to promote national safeguarding standards for policies, operations and practice, and learn from and implement the lessons from local case reviews

 

• Ensure that the interagency procedures which guide child protection / safeguarding interventions are always followed

 

• Ensure through high quality training programmes that all staff have the knowledge and skills which inform good safeguarding and child protection practice with children and their families

 

• Support through training and guidance the role of statutory agencies in safeguarding and protecting children

 

• Promote public and professional awareness of risk to children so as to help prevent abuse of children and young people

 

• All our training is planned in accordance with the Sheffield Safeguarding

  Children Board Training Strategy and delivered via its learning contract.

 

• Supervision of health visitors and school nurses is provided in accordance

   with the Sheffield PCT supervision policy