1. SOMERSET LSCBPRIORITY SETTING & DEVELOPMENT DAY Child Protection and Safeguarding Information Steve Tanner, Service Director 22 February 2013

2. Children’s Social Care Priorities- becoming good aiming for outstanding • Back to basics – compliance and performance • Improving the quality and consistency of safeguarding work- embedding Signs of Safety • Early Help • Missing children, CSE, identification of sexual abuse • Children in Care and care leavers • Safe • Stable • Achieving • Positive contribution • Integration at the front line • Think Family

3. Contacts, Referrals & Assessments 2011/12 Requests for Involvement / Work 2010/11 Figures 2009/10 Figures 22,037 contacts to Children’s Services 20,072 19,265 Somerset Direct 12,040 referrals to Children’s Services 10,952 10,630 Triage Team 5,467 referrals to Children’s Social Care 5,597 5,879 Children’s Social Care 4,442 completed Initial Assessments 4,358 4,533 Initial Assessment 1,108 completed Core Assessments 896 665 Core Assessment

4. Contacts, Referrals & Assessments 2011/12

5. Contacts, Referrals and Assessments * The ‘Other’ category includes: Midwives; GPs; A&E; Early Years provision; probation; courts; Youth Offending Team; general public/self/friends/neighbours; solicitors etc

6. Children in Care & Child Protection (2009-2012)

7. Children’s Social Care Priorities- becoming good aiming for outstanding • Back to basics – compliance and performance • Improving the quality and consistency of safeguarding work • Early Help • Missing children, CSE, identification of sexual abuse • Children in Care and care leavers • Safe • Stable • Achieving • Positive contribution • Integration at the front line • Think Family

8. Child Protection: Age Profile / Abuse Type Heading here in Arial 36pt Bold Author/Date in Arial 20pt Bold

9. Frontline Staff: Key Themes (2012 Survey) References were made to a lack of capacity, resources and time impacting on morale, resulting in high staff turnover and an inability to appropriately and effectively safeguard children and young people. There is a need to strengthen multi-agency awareness of other services, duties, responsibilities, policies, procedures and thresholds. Communication and feedback between agencies requires strengthening. The loss of early intervention and preventative services is being felt keenly across organisations and is impacting on capacity elsewhere. Strengthening integrated multi-agency training and better communicating performance information, research and best practice throughout services and teams was a common theme in responses. Author/Date in Arial 20pt Bold