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This report for the period April 2024-March 2025 sets out that since the dissolution of the ‘Pan-Dorset Safeguarding Children Partnership’, the new BCP Safeguarding Children Partnership has focussed on implementing new arrangements to fulfil the statutory responsibilities of the three statutory safeguarding partners who have joint responsibility and accountability for the multi-agency safeguarding arrangements in the BCP geographical area.  The three statutory safeguarding partners are BCP Council, NHS Dorset ICB and Dorset Police. Within this period of significant change, partners have maintained a focus on safeguarding children and through the new arrangements have gained insights on the effectiveness of how well partners work together to safeguard local children and young people, and areas to be developed. Full details of the multi-agency safeguarding arrangements can be seen here.

The report provides an account of:

·       What we have done as part of our local arrangements, including any child safeguarding practice review

·       Impact of learning from local and national reviews

·       How we have applied independent scrutiny to review and challenge our safeguarding practice

·       How education partners are engaged with

·       Future improvements that can be made as to the effectiveness of local safeguarding arrangements.

This report will be submitted to the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel by 30 September 2025 and will be published on the BCP Safeguarding Children Partnership website.

This report was circulated for information only with no discussion in Committee.

The report for the period April 2024-March 2025 set out that since the dissolution of the ‘Pan-Dorset Safeguarding Children Partnership’, the new BCP Safeguarding Children Partnership has focussed on implementing new arrangements to fulfil the statutory responsibilities of the three statutory safeguarding partners who had joint responsibility and accountability for the multi-agency safeguarding arrangements in the BCP geographical area.  The three statutory safeguarding partners were BCP Council, NHS Dorset ICB and Dorset Police. Within this period of significant change, partners had maintained a focus on safeguarding children and through the new arrangements had gained insights on the effectiveness of how well partners worked together to safeguard local children and young people, and areas to be developed. Full details of the multi-agency safeguarding arrangements could be seen here.

The report provided an account of:

·       What we had done as part of our local arrangements, including any child safeguarding practice review

·       Impact of learning from local and national reviews

·       How we had applied independent scrutiny to review and challenge our safeguarding practice

·       How education partners were engaged with

·       Future improvements that could be made as to the effectiveness of local safeguarding arrangements.

The report would be submitted to the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel by 30 September 2025 and would be published on the BCP Safeguarding Children Partnership website.