Hertfordshire Safeguarding children & Safeguarding Adults Newsletter

• Protecting against Domestic Abuse - We will commit to ensuring families are kept safe from domestic abuse by implementing the findings from our recent inspection activity and the development of a new subgroup

• Creating Best Life Chances for Children - We will ensure that children that are not in full-time education will continue to be effectively safeguarded and implement the findings from our recent scrutiny report. We will ensure that children seeking asylum with their families are safeguarded in their accommodation by working with the Strategic Partnership Migration Board

• Protecting against Extra-Familial Harm - We continue to ensure that we have effective systems to respond to children who are suffering harm outside of their families and implement findings from our recent review.

• Keeping Children Safe, Helping Families Thrive - We will continue to keep children safe and help families to thrive by beginning to implement the government's new strategy and ensure families and children are supported at the right time and in the right way.

• Protecting against Sexual Abuse - We continue to ensure we are effectively protecting children from sexual abuse and respond to the findings from the national review.

We strive to capture the voice and experiences of parents/carers, children and young people, and practitioners.

We strive to ensure we have the right training and development opportunities for our practitioners.

We continue to strive for culturally competent and professionally curious practice.

We will continue to deliver our statutory responsibilities as outlined in Working Together 2023.

• Complex Needs & Multiple Disadvantages - To ensure that we effectively working with adults who have complex needs and multiple disadvantages. This will include reviewing our current approach and identifying strengths and areas for development.

• Asylum seekers - To work with partners to assure ourselves that adults with care and support needs who are asylum seekers are safe with a focus on those in temporary accommodation

• Homelessness - To ensure that those who are homeless are safe from abuse and neglect, including implementing and embedding learning from reviews and guidance from central government.

• Learning Disability To ensure that adults with learning disabilities are effectively safe from abuse and neglect, including embedding the learning from local and national reviews.

We strive to capture the voice and experiences of adults and work with them to improve practice.

We strive to ensure we have the right training and development opportunities for our practitioners and hear their voice.

We continue to strive for professionally curious and culturally competent practice.

We will continue to deliver our statutory responsibilities including undertaking reviews, developing policies and procedures and undertaking quality assurance activity.