The statutory functions of the East Riding Safeguarding Children Partnership are to:
- develop local policies and procedures as specified in the regulations for how the different organisations will work together on safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children;
- communicate the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and participate in local planning;
- undertake a Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review where abuse or neglect of a child is known or suspected, a child has died, or been seriously harmed, and there is cause for concern as to the way in which the authority, their ERSCP partners or other relevant persons have worked together to safeguard the child;
- support the review of the deaths of all children who are normally resident in their area and put in place procedures to ensure that there is a coordinated response by relevant organisations to an unexpected death of a child. Statutory Guidance on Learning and Improvement sets out the process that must be followed when undertaking these reviews and Local Child Safeguarding Practice review;
- monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of what is done by partners individually and collectively to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and advise them on ways to improve. This should include as a minimum: assessing the effectiveness and impact of the help being provided to children and families, including early help; quality assuring practice for example through multi-agency reflective activity involving practitioners and identifying lessons to be learned.
- assess whether ERSCP partners are fulfilling their statutory obligations under Section 11 of the Children Act 2004 and parallel duties and asking ERSCP partners to self-evaluate;
- monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of training, including multi-agency training, to safeguard and promote the welfare of children;
- produce and publish an annual report on the effectiveness of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in the local area. The purpose of this report is to ask whether safeguarding arrangements are working,