1. Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) Damien Cole - Integrated Working Strategic Lead, Children’s Services Angela Allgood – MASH Regional Advisor, Met Police

2. Background Police lead initiative Local Authority delivery
Purpose – To Improve the way that local safeguarding partnerships deal with child protection referrals, bringing a range of partners together into a single multi-agency safeguarding hub to share information quickly and efficiently.

3. National Picture MASH’s being implemented across England
Pan London MASH Operational Steering Group
11/32 London LA’s currently ‘live’ (as of June ‘13).
Learning todate - Positives/Negatives (Police perspective)

4. Evolution
Duty
Triage
MASH

5. Local implementation approach
3 phases of implementation
start June 2013
Official launch October 2013
Pathways in and out of MASH + documentation
Stakeholder engagement
Procurement of a MASH IT system
Training and communication

6. Local implementation todate
Premises secured, MASH office designed.
Pre-MASH screening pathway designed and implemented – June 2013
Co located partners identified and some in place
Single Points of Contact (SPOC) identified

7. MASH participation Co located partners (confirmed):
Social Care MASH officers
Police Public Protection Desk
Police Missing Persons Officer
Health representative
Education/Targeted Support Liaison
Probation

8. MASH participation SPOC’s (confirmed): Housing Youth Offending Service
IDSVAS (Domestic Violence service)
Adult Mental Health
Neighbourhood Crime Reduction

9. Information Sharing - security
Pre-MASH screening
(all contacts)
Interface with Tier 2 or Tier 3 – statutory assessment
MASH

10. Areas to be aware of Purpose and impact of a MASH
Comprehensive multi agency risk assessment
Reactive, not preventative
Intelligence led decision making
Cases will step up into Social Care based on more information/assessment.
Cases will be safely stepped down to Tier 1&2, with more information/assessment.

11. Areas to be aware of cont.
Performance around timeliness of assessments
Reduction in cases ‘bouncing’ up and down across Tier 1/2 and 3.
Reduction in the number of Statutory Assessments not progressing to CiN/CP/LAC etc.
Greater partnership working
Greater partnership awareness of thresholds

12. Areas to be aware of cont..
Will intro of MASH increase the number of referral?
Partnership buy in.
Information sharing and recording.