Child Protection Health Advisory Group
Frequency of meetings and reporting arrangements
Purpose
Cambridgeshire Child Protection Health Advisory Group has been established to bring together Named and Designated professionals and those with lead responsibility for safeguarding children within their NHS organisations.
The overarching purpose of the group is to safeguard and promote the welfare of children across the health community in line with the statutory duty under section 11 2004 Children Act.
The group will define the strategic direction in relation to the planning, commissioning and delivery of services to vulnerable children in order to achieve a consistent and responsive approach to meeting the needs of all children and specifically those who are require safeguarding interventions .
Membership
- Named and Designated professionals from Cambridgeshire Health Trusts
- Lead Commissioners for children young people and maternity services
- NHS Managers with lead responsibility for safeguarding.
Terms of Reference
- To provide a forum for discussion of day to day safeguarding work.
- To comment on local, regional and national guidance as relevant to NHS services in relation to safeguarding children and to make recommendations as appropriate.
- To facilitate the sharing of “best practice” within the NHS in safeguarding children, and for group members to promote this within their organisations.
- To provide mutual support to NHS staff in the daily work of safeguarding children across Cambridgeshire
- A communication network for health professionals working in the safeguarding arena and a forum for forming a common health voice at the LSCB.
- Influencing the planning of safeguarding training delivered to health staff in partnership with LSCB training sub group
- Monitoring and reviewing recommendations from inspections, case reviews, audits, serious case reviews and the Laming Inquiry and ensuring a consistent approach in relation to implementation across all health agencies
To recommend to relevant local organisations ways on developing and strengthening the service to vulnerable children.
- To identify deficits in health services to safeguard children and relay this to service mangers in order that action plans can be developed in order to address the deficits
- To oversee the work of the safeguarding nurses group by means of regular updates in the form of a work plan.
- To receive new and updated policies produced by the LSCB Policies, Procedures and Protocols subgroup.
Frequency of meetings and reporting arrangements
- The group will meet bi monthly, agendas will be circulated in advance, items for inclusion on the agenda are welcome from the group
- The group will liaise and work with subgroups of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough LSCBs through the LSCB Chairs groups
- Membership of the group and its terms of reference will be reviewed annually
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