Review into Multi-Agency Safeguarding Arrangements
Sir Alan Wood published a review into multi-agency safeguarding arrangements in May 2021.
The review sets out recommendations for making new multi-agency safeguarding arrangements for local areas more effective.
Safeguarding Partner are responsible for:
- the strategic oversight of all local safeguarding children policies in their area
- arrangements for child safeguarding practice reviews
- working with child death review partners on reviewing all child deaths in the area
The full report can be found by clicking here.
Safeguarding Adult Reviews
Michael Preston-Shoot, Suzy Braye, Oli Preston, Karen Allen and Kate Spreadbury undertook the first analysis of Safeguarding Adult Reviews. It was commissioned by CHIP (Care and Health Improvement Programme) and co-produced and delivered by the Local Government Association and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services in England (ADASS)
A useful briefing for practitioners can be found by clicking here.
The Local Government Association has produced an analysis of Safeguarding Adults Reviews with a series of target briefings which can be found by clicking here.
The Everall Report
In 2006 Mark Everall QC produced a report titled "Commission of Inquiry into the Care of Young People". This Inquiry was commissioned following the murders in February 2002 of Samantha Barton and George Green by Peter Newbery. This was a report which looked at the care and support given by Government and the agencies of Government to Samantha Barton and George Green and into the care and support systems for children and young people who have behavioural and emotional problems.
The Terms of Reference were:
- To inquire into the level and effectiveness of the care and support provided by the government and the agencies of government to Samantha Barton and George Green and to determine whether they had any
relevance to the circumstances surrounding and leading to their deaths. - To inquire generally into the level and effectiveness of the care and support systems, including through care, provided to children of secondary school age or above on the Isle of Man who have behavioural
and emotional problems, taking account, where considered necessary, of care and support received in their earlier years. In so doing, the Inquiry will take into account all relevant influences on such children. - To make recommendations as to how the welfare of such young people may be safeguarded so as to avoid, as far as possible, a similar tragedy occurring in the future.
The full report can be found by clicking here.