Safeguarding Children Partnership

The North East Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children Partnership (NELSCP)

How the North East Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children Partnership work

Children, young people and families are at the centre of all we do as a Safeguarding Children partnership, we want NEL to be a place our children can grow up happy and healthy, safe in their homes and communities with people that love them. We are ambitious for a child’s future with a focus on learning and aspiration so they can be the best they can be. By being ‘stronger together’, we can achieve our vision of ‘Our Children, Our Future’.

We will also offer help and support at the earliest point and to enable children, young people and families to have positive outcomes, where they reach their full potential.

The NEL SCP operates in line with the following legislation and statutory guidance:

The Children Act 2004, as amended by the Children and Social Work Act 2017
Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023
Working Together: Transitional Guidance 2023
Children’s Social Care National Framework 2023

Procedures

Our online manual contains all policies and procedures for the North East Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children Partnership.

Visit the policies and procedures manual

You can also view our North East Lincolnshire Children’s Services Procedures Manual .

Partnership

Three partners work together with a shared equal responsibility for safeguarding. They are Humberside Police, NHS North East Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group and North East Lincolnshire Council.

We have made arrangements to work together with relevant agencies to safeguard and protect the welfare of children in our area.

Partnership arrangements

Partnership structure

SCP Group Governance Structure (PDF, 67KB)

Safeguarding Children Partnership Board

This group has oversight of quality, compliance, shared priorities, systems and processes across the scope of the arrangements to provide assurance of effective practice and outcomes

Safeguarding Performance Practice Assurance Group

This group will analyse the dashboard, and practice across the safeguarding system, agency intelligence, agency reports

Safeguarding Practice Learning and Development Group

This group will have oversight and delivery of scrutiny and assurance framework, oversees quality practice, audit activity, dashboard, agency intelligence, benchmarking, overseeing training.

Child Safeguarding Practice Review Group

This group undertakes rapid reviews / practice reviews, develops action plans

Safeguarding Practice Thematic Strategic Group

This group will undertake work at a strategic level in respect of key safeguarding themes which are currently Neglect and Child Sexual Abuse

Child Exploitation Strategic Group

This group is responsible for the development, implementation and oversight of the Child Exploitation Strategy and underpinning delivery plan and associated work streams.