1. Slough Children’s Service Safeguarding Peer Review

2. Purpose of the Peer Review - To examine how the Council and partners are fulfilling Safeguarding Children responsibilities. The review will provide a new baseline position from which to revise and enhance improvement plans and deliver improved outcomes.

3. Scope of the Review Overall progress since the SLAC inspection in 2011 the effectiveness of your referral and access arrangements including the use of CAF, the application of thresholds and assessment of risk the quality of casework, care planning and the contribution of the IRO service the impact of supervision, management oversight and the overall quality assurance framework for safeguarding the quality of partnership working at the operational level how any risk arising from the NHS and other organisational changes can be mitigated the fitness for purpose and capacity of the LSCB

4. How the review will be conducted Self Assessment/Documentary Analysis Case Mapping Exercise Audit Validation/Case Review Focus Groups/Questionnaire On site visits and Officer interviews Feedback and Prioritisation Conference

5. What will the reviewers be looking for? Effective practice, service delivery and voice of the child Outcomes, impact and performance Working together Capacity and managing resources Vision, strategy and leadership.

6. What will this actually mean for Children's Services and our partners? Checking the progress we have made in our improvement program Testing our services against the new higher OFSTED safeguarding threshold Asking how joined up are our approaches to safeguarding children? Ensuring that interagency communication is effective and robust at all levels across the partnership Listening carefully to the voices of children and their parents/ carers

7. What will we need to focus on? The quality of our pathways for indentifying and working with children in need of safeguarding (Thresholds and Services) The effectiveness of arrangements to investigate concerns of abuse -(Joint investigation, S.47) The outcomes for children subject to Child Protection Plans (purposeful activity to reduce abuse)

8. What will we need to focus on? The effectiveness of our services to prevent harm in specific circumstances: –Allegations against professionals –Children with disabilities –Missing children –Sexual Exploitation –Domestic Violence –Neglect –Substance Abuse –Isolated children

9. What do we need from each other? Commitment to support the review preparation Representation on the planning groups Staff time for mapping groups/focus groups /interviews Development time for the self assessment and priority setting