1. All Wales Safeguarding Procedures Review Project
Newsletter
April 2018

2. Project update What do you need to do? Draft Procedures:
The INTRODUCTION and CHAPTER 1 has been developed.
It is currently with the wider project team who will submit their feedback.
This first section of the procedures will then be uploaded onto the All Wales Academy site for everyone to access.
You should receive notification of the draft available in the first week of May 2018.
You will then have 4-6 weeks in which to provide your feedback to the project team via the All Wales Academy site
When you receive the notification, access your account on the All Wales Academy and read through the draft procedures (INTRODUCTION and CHAPTER 1).
Click on ‘your feedback’ and answer the questions.
Each region may choose to coordinate this process.
For example, Regional Safeguarding Boards may wish to invite feedback at their regional safeguarding board meetings and then submit feedback on behalf of groups or organisations.
The notification will provide a timescale in which all feedback must be submitted.
Only feedback received within this timescale and via the All Wales Academy will be included in the analysis to inform further changes.

3. Feedback To help you plan your meetings Providing feedback:
Section
Consultation via the All Wales Academy
Feedback deadline
Board Meetings
Introduction and Chapter 1
Duty to Report
8th June- 28th June
28th June
5th July
Initial Enquiry, Responding to a Report and Decision Making
30th July – 31st August
31st August
7th September
Planning and interventions
22nd October-15th November
15th November
22nd November
Early Help and Prevention
7th December-3rd January 2019
3rd January 2019
10th January
Final Version of whole document
4th April
Providing feedback:
We are encouraging feedback from all partners and colleagues. As a region, you may wish to record your feedback as an individual, or you may wish to coordinate your submission by collating feedback from groups or organisations and submitting on behalf of that group or organisation.
Either is acceptable. The only condition we apply to receiving feedback is that all feedback must be submitted via the All Wales Academy. This is so we can ensure a consistency in the format of the feedback and that we can ensure feedback is focussed on the work in hand
To help you plan your meetings
We have put together a schedule to show when each draft section of the procedures will be ready for review. This will help you plan your time and meeting dates to accommodate engagement with colleagues and partners.

4. Project contact Details:
Project Next Steps
Progress on the next section of the procedures is underway.
‘Duty to Report’ draft will be submitted to the Project Team for initial feedback by early May, with a view to it being ready for upload to the All Wales Academy in early June.
Following your feedback on the first 2 sections of the procedures, approval will be sought at the next Project Board in July.
Project contact Details:
Jo Phillips-Project Manager
Alys Jones-Project Executive