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Executive Terms of Reference

1. Purpose: To provide effective leadership for the work of local Partners and agencies in safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in Gloucestershire. To ensure the effectiveness of local safeguarding arrangements and place the welfare and protection of children and young people at the heart of the local vision for Gloucestershire.

2. Membership

Executive Members

·         Assistant Chief Constable: Gloucestershire Constabulary

·         Head of Public Protection Unit: Gloucestershire Constabulary

·         Director of Children’s Services: Gloucestershire County Council

·         Director of Children’s Safeguarding and Care: Gloucestershire County Council

·         Chief Nurse:  Integrated Care Board

·         Assistant Director: Integrated Care Board

·         Director of Education: Gloucestershire County Council


 CEO: Office of Police and Crime Commissioner

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Non-executive Members

·         Chair of Safeguarding Management Group

·         Independent Scrutineer

·         Partnerships Business Manager (Lead Safeguarding Support Officer)

·         GSCP Performance Improvement Officer

3. Quoracy:  The Three lead Safeguarding Partners, Gloucestershire ICB, Gloucestershire County Council and Gloucestershire Constabulary.

4. Key Objectives: For Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children’s Executive are to ensure:

·         children are safeguarded and their welfare promoted.

  •          children are safeguarded and their welfare promoted.
  •       there is an exhaustive appreciation of the effectiveness of local multi-agency safeguarding arrangements through robust quality assurance and performance management arrangements
  •         there are robust arrangements in place for local Rapid Reviews, Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews and Child Death Reviews
  •          there is a robust cycle of needs assessment, planning and delivery to support the continuous development of local child safeguarding arrangements
  •          effective direction is given to the Safeguarding Management Group and Sub-groups to ensure they are focused on established priorities and having a positive impact on child safeguarding arrangements.
  •          there is early identification and analysis of new and emerging child safeguarding issues
  •          Partner organisations and agencies challenge and hold one another to account for the effectiveness of child safeguarding arrangements through regular and open dialogue with escalation used as a last resort.
  •          learning and continuous professional development are an integral element within local safeguarding arrangements including the learning from Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews, Rapid Reviews, Child Death Reviews and other multi-agency learning and quality assurance activity.
  •          there are effective information sharing arrangements in place to support accurate and timely decision making for children and families
  •          the development of local child safeguarding arrangements takes place within the context of the local vision for children and young people in Gloucestershire, with ongoing liaison with other key partnerships including Safer Gloucestershire and Gloucestershire’s Well-being Coalition.

 

5. Frequency of meetings:  Quarterly