Performance & Effective Practice - Work Plan

No.	Action	Measurable Objectives	Timescale	Lead
1.	To produce a comprehensive governance framework in relation to safeguarding children arrangements that demonstrates compliance with the relevant health care standards and practice Develop a 2 year work plan	Performance and Effective Practice Governance framework developed Framework used effectively by the Group to manage the work programme and seek evidence of good practice and changes to practice	Immediate	Wendy Manning
2.	To seek evidence of the implementation of recommendations from Serious case Reviews and Case Audits To request the information sharing pathways / procedures from adult services where they have concerns about a child within a family when they are dealing with the adult members.	4 audits undertaken to review the effectiveness and changes in practice as a result of implementation of one recommendation from each of the following Child A Family B Family D Child E Child C1	Every Quarter
3.	To seek evidence of referral criteria to specialist services that acknowledge potential safeguarding issues for children involved in the family	3.3 in objectives
4.	To seek evidence of the access to interpreter services across partner agencies and the effectiveness of these services with vulnerable children/families
5.	To identify that the safeguarding needs of disabled children are being adequately addressed	Linked to equality and diversity statement in Terms of Reference
6.	To review access to locality based services through the evaluation of the Common Assessment Framework in Bournemouth and in Poole	• Linked to equality and diversity statement in Terms of Reference • Recent evaluation of the CAF process in both Boroughs • Clear, written, criteria/thresholds for access to locality based services • Numbers of families/children who access locality based services as an early intervention • Number of children who are referred on to more specialist services
7.		Linked to pt 3 of Business Plan