Children’s MARS Local Arrangements Update North Lincolnshire Children’s MARS Local Arrangements Update Designated Safeguarding Leads – 21 March 2019

North Lincolnshire – who are we Children’s Multi Agency Resilience & Safeguarding (MARS) Local Arrangements Quality and effectiveness of services for children, including LSCB, judged as OUTSTANDING by Ofsted in SIF Inspection 2017 Building on a position of strength

Preparing for new arrangements - timeline Up to October 2018 Shadow MASA Exec Board formed Oct – Nov 2017 Feb – Apr 2018 June 2018 Initial MASA proposals developed Responded to Working Together consultation

Preparing for new arrangements – timeline cont Up to October 2018 Published local arrangements July – Oct 2018 Sep – Oct 2018 October 2018 Agreed transition, LSCB ‘close down’ process & new arrangements Engaged, tested, developed & shaped arrangements

How we got to publication – key success factors Shadow arrangements Safeguarding partners - shared ownership at high level Scope of arrangements agreed Dedicated capacity to support developments Tested and developed assurance framework Robust transition arrangements Agreed funding and resource for Multi Agency Innovation Hub Principles - five big intents agreed

Five Big Intents Even stronger partnership inc. schools Co-produce Scrutiny and assurance Make safeguarding personal – children remain in families, in schools Even stronger partnership inc. schools Build resilience Underpinned by partnership arrangements Policies and procedures

Implementing new arrangements - timeline From October 2018 Staff move into Innovation Hub 2 Nov 2018 Nov 2018 March 2019 1) Inaugural Children’s MARS Board 2) Stakeholder development meeting “Out of this world” conference launch Children’s MARS Board news update and special conference edition - part of our commitment to communicating… another due out soon

Implementing new arrangements – key success factors Dedicated officer into Multi Agency Innovation Hub from each safeguarding partner organisation – and other officers linking into the hub Ongoing review of transition Delivery plan to keep on track with implementation Key lead areas for safeguarding partners scrutiny and assurance training funding performance stakeholder engagement and voice (partnership) safeguarding practice reviews Transition from LSCB – just about there – child death review arrangements require further work ahead of the June publication date, but this is child death partners, not safeguarding partners – as part of this, will be looking to close down the LSCB website and email, which has been running parallel, so will just be Children’s MARS Scrutiny and assurance – published framework – agency specific, thematic, section 11, practice learning line of sight Schools safeguarding audit will feature within this, as will MAAG It’s to be confirmed, but it’s been proposed that the next practice learning line of sight will be at the end May and is likely to have a focus on cases where domestic abuse is an issue Line of sights influenced by priorities and also JTAI themes – next ones coming up are: Multi-Agency response to children at risk of mental health issues – summer 2019 Effectiveness of prevention and early intervention at reducing current and future risks to children and meeting their needs - 2020 Multi agency response to older children in need of help and protection focusing on contextual safeguarding including exploitation - 2021 CMARS scrutiny and assurance – key for schools…. Ensure people clear about what the process is. For this time, once the cases and schools have been identified, Helen and the hub can support schools through it, but we can send info round or have a specific session for all or it could be a focus at the next DSL Learning from this is through the SPLIG. Could specifically update on outcomes and the process at the next one Training – finalising training programme – upcoming dates Intermediate Early Help Assessment – 2 May (as a slight aside, in terms of early help, we had a recent contact with a school who was sending in the early help assessment cover form as a paper form – explained it was an electronic process but they fed back that it wasn’t clear about where it was going/whether it was submitted and they didn’t feel confident in doing it that way - subsequently, updated the form and also the submission arrangements so it’s clearer….trying to listen, learn, adapt and review) Masterclasses Child exploitation/county lines/OCG – 5 April Neglect/GCP2 – 11 April, 26 April, 3 May, 30 May (particularly useful for school staff who home visit) A range of domestic abuse training, which is facilitated by the Blue Door, so we’ll be promoting that once dates are confirmed Other dates will be distributed in due course Safeguarding training at DSL meetings and what is provided through Helen and Andy is done under the auspices of the CMARS arrangements Looking to focus more of the quality and impact of training so we understand how it’s impacted on practice Any examples Funding Safeguarding partners have agreed funding up to the end of 2019/20 and current contributions are likely to remain, of which schools are a key contributor. Will be looking at what funding will look like from 2020. Might be opportunities for contributions in kind, with resources, training, venues, links to hub etc as well as or instead of actual funding Performance Lots of data, performance info and intelligence Trying to refine and restructure the framework so we’re more focussed on the analysis and evaluation, so looking at the story behind the figures rather than just to scores on the doors Stakeholder engagement and voice Did have a stakeholder partnership in November, at which schools were represented….did query about how schools featured in the new arrangements and this is still a work in progress, but a commitment to ensuring schools are visibly represented on the partnerships. Looking to develop the stakeholder partners to be a policy watch approach CMARS/hub linking into the DSL meeting more frequently goes toward strengthening these relationships with schoools direct and we are working more and more closely with Helen and Andy Early helps forums – looking to strengthen links with early help group So it’s about schools being visibly represented, but also about CMARS/hub coming to you more, but also finding ways of representing your views, challenges etc into the partnership arrangements Safeguarding practice reviews Improving Child Protection and Safeguarding Practice policies and procedures are now published Safeguarding partners and decision makers are meeting to clarify local arrangements

North Lincolnshire – MARS Implementation March to June 2019 Listen, Learn, Review & Adapt Republish in June 2019

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