Quality Assurance sub committee

Quality Assurance sub committee is chaired by Sara Wilson sara.wilson@derbyshire.gov.uk

Meetings take place on a monthly basis and are usually held at De Bradelei House, Belper.

The dates for 2007 are October 5th, October 26th, November 27th and December 21st.

Purpose

The Quality Assurance sub committee (QA) has responsibility for monitoring professional practice and outcomes in relation to safeguarding children.

The committee leads on the review of inter agency case work and makes recommendations to the Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) where appropriate.

Responsibilities

  • To review inter agency performance against the standards established by the LSCB and arrange such audits or studies as may be required out of performance measures.

  • To review a sample of case conference minutes each year, made up of randomly selected cases.

    • These might include cases referred by the Chair or Agency representatives (to include those where children have been subject to a plan of protection for a period in excess of two years and cases where a family has been subject to 10 or more conferences). A parent or other interested party may also refer cases.

  • Monitoring of Child Protection Conference activity including consideration of examples of good and poor practice. 

  • Where there is a matter of dissent, the chair of the sub group should inform both the chair of the conference and the individual who raised the concern as to whether the original decision was supported or whether a further conference should be convened to review the decision.

    • The sub group cannot reverse the decision of a child protection conference.

  • Where the sub group upholds an example of good practice a letter of commendation should be sent to the worker and to their manager.

  • To review trends in the recognition, referral, investigation conferencing and outcomes for children who are subject of child protection processes.

  • To manage the process whereby service users and their families can request a review of a conference decision or recommendation.

  • To lead the arrangements and conduct of Case Reviews by management as specified in Working Together to Safeguard Children (2006) and as directed by the LSCB.

  • Where such a review is deemed appropriate the QA sub committee will be responsible for clarifying the remit of the review, identification of authors of the individual agency reports and the commissioning of an overview report. The committee shall be responsible for the time management of the review and, at the conclusion of the review, the production of an executive summary and an action plan resulting from any recommendations made.

Membership

Membership of Quality Assurance sub-committee will be at senior/middle management level.

There will be a representative from each of the key Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Board (DSCB) agencies.

Representatives from other agencies may be co-opted on to the committee as appropriate.

Meetings

The QA will meet on a monthly basis

Reporting activity

The QA will report child protection activity to each  board and  partnership group meeting

Current membership

Children and Younger Adults (CAYA) social care

  • Sara Wilson
  • Beverley Squire
LSCB
  • John Anderson
  • Dona Womack
CAYA education & inclusion

  • Paul Saunders

Adult Mental Health

  • Karen Johnson

Primary Care Trust

  • Alison Robinson
  • Kathy Webster
  • Ravi Bath
  • Trish Field
Hospital Trust

Police
  • Ian Tucker
Voluntary Sector
  • Sarah Ward (NSPCC)
Connexions
  • Sharon Birch
CAFCASS
  • Vera Boyes
Probation

Youth Offending Service

 

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