1. The role of the NYSCB

2. Statutory Objectives
to coordinate what is done by each person or body represented on the Board for the purposes of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in the area; and
to ensure the effectiveness of what is done by each such person or body for those purposes.
Section 13 of the Children Act 2004 requires each Local Authority to establish a Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) for their area
It specifies the organisations and individuals (other than the Local Authority) that should be represented on LSCBs
Working Together to Safeguard Children (2013) provides guidance as to the role and responsibilities of LSCBs and the functions they undertake

3. What we do
Develop multi-agency policies and procedures for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children
Raising awareness
Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of arrangements for the safeguarding and welfare of children
Advising Board partners on ways to improve
Participate in the planning of services for children in the North Yorkshire, and
Undertake reviews of serious cases and advise Board partners on lessons learned

4. Partner Involvement

6. Board and Executive Executive Board
Determine the Board’s Business Plan
Monitor performance against the Plan
Determine the Board agenda and resources
Determine key issues requiring executive action by partners, for example sign off of Serious Case Review Overview Report recommendations and implementation plans, and
Accept the Annual Report
Develop a robust understanding of the quality of multi-agency child protection practice and ensure it is effectively used to challenge and drive on-going improvements
Contribution to the safeguarding and welfare of children in North Yorkshire
Consider partners contribution to the advancement of the NYSCB Business Plan
Give direction to and receive updates from the Children’s Safeguarding and Strategy Groups

7. Subgroups
Case Review Subgroup – considers any cases highlighted within agencies where multi-agency learning can be derived
Workforce Development Subgroup – Identifies multi-agency training requirements and evaluates the effectiveness of multi-agency and single agency training.
Missing from Home and Care Subgroup – Consider multi-agency responses to children missing from home and care
Child Death Review Panel Steering Group – identifies learning identified from the child deaths and multi-agency responses
Case Review Group
Chair – Alan Critchlow, Education
Vicky Metheringham – CSC
Heather Pearson, Police
Elaine Wyllie, Designated Health
Dallas Frank, NYSCB Business Unit Manager
Hilary Irving, Legal Advisor
Workforce Development Subgroup
Penny Yeadon, Chair
Julie Firth, CYPS
Gemma Dickinson,

8. Subgroups
Child Sexual Exploitation Subgroup – Consider multi-agency responses to children who are at risk of being or have been sexually exploited
Missing from Home and Care Subgroup – Consider multi-agency responses to children missing from home and care
Quality Assurance and Performance Subgroup – Considers NYSCB dataset, maintaining an overview of audit activities, learning opportunities, patterns and trends, and directing the work of the Audit Group
Communication and Engagement Subgroup – Responsible for the Communication and Engagement Strategy, website content and publications

9. Task Groups
Established to undertake specific tasks which sit report to individual subgroups
Young People Who Sexually Harm Task Group
Multi-Agency Audit Group
E-Safety Task Group
Training Implementation Group
Serious Case Review Subgroup

10. Children’s Safeguarding and Strategy Groups (CSSGs)
The over-arching aim of each Children’s Safeguarding & Strategy Group is to improve the lives and outcomes of children and young people locally. This is achieved through the co-ordination of collaborative partnership activity at the local level in support of the objectives of the NYSCB and the Children’s Trust Board to:
promote the work of the NYSCB, ensuring local arrangements for the safeguarding of children are fit for purpose
provide scrutiny of, and challenge to, those arrangements where appropriate
secure local delivery of NYSCB objectives and priorities, as described in the Children & Young People’s Plan (CYPP)
secure local delivery of Children’s Trust Board objectives and priorities, as described in the NYSCB Business Plan

11. Strategic Objectives of the NYSCB Business Plan
The North Yorkshire Safeguarding Board will drive the local strategy to ensure the safety and wellbeing of Children and Young People involved in or at risk of sexual exploitation and who are subject to multiple vulnerabilities
The North Yorkshire Safeguarding Board will ensure that partner agencies promote early help, recognise, and respond to neglect of children and young people
NYSCB will work with partners to develop and implement effective mechanisms for collecting and evaluating feedback from children, young people and their families and ensure that this is used to influence service development
The main themes from the NYSCB Business Plan

12. Learning impacting on practice
Development of the Learning and Improvement Framework
Development of a multi-agency audit plan and completion of audits of pre-birth assessments and strategy meetings
Themed practitioner audits
Significant Incident Learning Process (SILP) Review of a child death (the outcome report is published on our website,
Audits of multi-agency compliance with Section 11 of the Children Act 2004
Cases considered by the Child Death Review Panel

13. Key achievements which link to your practice
We have:
Continued to develop our learning from practice to improve procedures and how professionals work together
Revised our multi-agency procedures and practice guidance to ensure it is up-to-date, informative, takes learning from practice and is clear
Developed the NYSCB Briefings to ensure that you are kept up to date with the latest issues discussed at the Board
Improved our website content to make it accessible, more interactive and more informative
Developed the Children’s Safeguarding and Strategy Groups to provide local links for practitioners to the Board and ensure that local priorities link to the Board

14. Key achievements which link to your practice
We have:
Listened to your views on training and improved our range of courses at different levels
Raised awareness of key issues linked to our Business Plan and Strategic objectives such as CSE and Early Help
Held themed conferences for Child Sexual Exploitation, Early Help and Working With Teenagers

15. NYSCB Briefings
You should expect to receive the NYSCB Briefing from your Board Representative once a quarter.
They are also available from the link below:

16. Who to Contact
Prof. Nick Frost NYSCB Independent Chair North Yorkshire Safeguarding Children Board County Hall, Northallerton
Dallas Frank Safeguarding Children Board Manager Tel:
Haydn Rees Jones NYSCB Policy and Development Officer Tel:
Susan Colville Child Sexual Exploitation Project Lead
Tel:
Katie Hibbs Senior Development Officer Tel:
Alison Carter NYSCB Administrator Tel: