The minutes of the meeting on
15 July 2016 were approved as a correct record.
Matters arising
- Debbie
Hartrick notified the Board of an event
on 20 October, 3-6pm at Maidenhead Town Hall (previously
disseminated to the LSCB) to discuss the CAMHS Transformation fund
projects. All partners were reminded about their invitation to
attend. Further updates were requested on the implementation and
challenges of the CAMHS Transformation Plan for the January meeting
of the LSCB. (Action: Debbie Hartrick)
- Angella
Wells would bring an update on the Children’s Social Care
Safeguarding Practice Diagnostic action plan at the November
meeting. (Action: Angella Wells)
- The
delivery of the PICADA programme as a shared service was an ongoing
discussion, but challenges to this included funding and staff
capacity.
- Health
partners were asked to check whether internal domestic abuse
training was being provided, or whether a lack of health
representation at multi-agency training should be investigated.
(Action: Nancy Barber/Jayne Reynolds)
- Angella
Wells reported that she had met with Sonia Johnson who oversees
SEMRAC arrangements to issues affecting 16/17 year olds. It was
agreed that arrangements were in place for this age group under
current statutory processes. As a result the Board were advised
that the task and finish group would not be required, but that this
decision could be reviewed in the future if there was any
indication that it would be necessary.
- It was confirmed that comments from
children would be added into the DAPS evaluation forms following
discussion at the July Board.
- It was
agreed that a review of the DAPS programme would be circulated with
the minutes. (Action: Lizzie Rich)
- Alex
Walters confirmed that she would be speaking with Timothy
Wheadon, Chief Executive of the Council
regarding its support for the LSCB’s Communications.
(Action: Alex Walters)
- A report
had gone to the CSE Strategic Group regarding the placement of
Looked After Children out of borough whose host authorities did not
include them in their CSE/Missing processes. It was reported that
this was a national issue due to a lack of communication between
Local Authorities and Local Police Areas, which had placed the duty
of communication on the foster carers. The Board resolved that the
guidance was clear and that the duty was on the Local Authority to
notify a host authority of any Looked After Children placed in
their area and if they became of aware of involvement in
CSE.
- The Board
was updated on the issue of emergency contraception distribution
amongst young people. It was reported that this was a difficult
area to measure due to young people getting contraception from more
than one provider, and due to the anonymous nature of the service.
The Board highlighted the importance of sufficient training being
provided to staff to enable them to detect signs of CSE. The Board
were reassured that any woman prescribed EHC were fully assessed
and Public Health were looking at available data to feed into the
LSCB performance dataset.
- Phil Cook
reported that Social Care were trying to engage with faith groups
with the help of Involve, but that this was an ongoing process.
- The Board
were updated that the Prevent Strategy and Action Plan had been
signed off by the Prevent steering group on behalf of the CSP and
would be the focus of an LSCB workshop for members of its
Partnership Forum.
- It was agreed
that the Draft Joint Partnership Protocol would be brought to the
November LSCB meeting as discussions were still ongoing. (Action: Alison Burnell/Jonathan Picken)