SSRG Current Events

Improving Safeguarding Outcomes for Children: Developments in Performance Assessment
24th November 2009
Birmingham

The abuse and death of Baby Peter was the catalyst for a report into child protection from Lord Laming. Among the recommendations in his report were:

• Government should introduce new statutory targets for safeguarding and child protection alongside the existing statutory attainment and early year’s targets as quickly as possible.
• The National Indicator Set should be revised with new national indicators for safeguarding and child protection developed for inclusion in LAAs for the next CSR.

In July and August 2009, DCSF colleagues staged a series of workshops with key stakeholders to get ideas on

• Outcomes/Process/Quality Priorities
• What the statutory targets should measure
• What the National Indicators should be
• Perceived drawbacks: Perverse incentives and/or measurement issues

This event will give delegates the opportunity to hear feedback from these workshops. It will also look at how this work – and work by the Department of Health – feed into the broader National Indicator Set and how this information may be used by inspectorates in assessing the performance of local partners in improving safeguarding outcomes
All speakers but one have confirmed.

• Download the programme (35kb MS Word doc)

Presentations

• Improving Safeguarding Outcomes – Performance Assessment (55kb PowerPoint)
  Colin Green – Director Of Children’s Services, Coventry City Council
  
• The National Indicator Set - Setting the context (300kb PowerPoint)
  Ian Hardy, Communities and Local Government
• Safeguarding National Indicators:  Background and Developments (300kb PowerPoint)
  Rob Myers (NSDU), Alison Thompson (DCSF)
• Developing performance indicators for safeguarding children in the health sector (370kb PowerPoint)
  Alan Bell – Partnerships for Children, Families and Maternity, Claire Northridge – NHS Operations
• The ‘big picture’: where safeguarding sits in relation to NIS (1MB PowerPoint)
  Ian Hardy, Communities and Local Government
• Experience of Unannounced Inspection (1.5MB PowerPoint)
  Sue Westcott - Lincolnshire CC