- ensure up-to-date single and multi-agency child protection policies; procedures; protocols; guidance; guidelines are in place across services and agencies
- ensure they are widely distributed and understood by staff
- develop key multi-agency practice guidance on new and emerging child protection practice issues
- maintain an overview of key multi-agency child protection performance data to identify activity; trends; patterns; themes and hotspots
- ensure that data is used to inform multi-agency quality assurance and self-evaluation activities
- ensure systematic approaches to quality assurance and self-evaluation are embedded across all services / agencies
- promote and share good practice; undertake Learning Reviews as and when necessary, to identify learning and ensure any learning is widely shared to further improve practice
- provide multi-agency, child protection, learning and development opportunities for staff
- ensure that these opportunities are quality assured and evaluated to identify impact
- ensure the voice of children, young people and families informs the work of the Child Protection Committee
Child Protection Committee
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