Membership of the Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Partnership

Strong leadership is critical for the new arrangements to be effective in bringing together the range of organisations and agencies within the partnership. The statutory safeguarding partners across Derby and Derbyshire have equal and joint responsibility for local safeguarding arrangements.

In order to ensure that the responsibilities of the partnership are being effectively discharged, a Chief Officer Group will lead the Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Partnership and include representation from the following at quarterly meetings:

• Derby City Council: Chief Executive (Lead Safeguarding Partner)
• Derby City Council: Cabinet member for Children and Young People
• Derby City Council: Director of Children’s Services (statutory role and Delegated Safeguarding Partner)
• Derbyshire County Council: Executive Director (Lead Safeguarding Partner)
• Derbyshire County Council: Cabinet member for Children and Young People
• Derbyshire County Council: Director of Children’s Services (statutory role and Delegated Safeguarding Partner)
• Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board: Chief Executive (Lead Safeguarding Partner and Chair of Chief Officer Group)
• Derbyshire Constabulary: Chief Constable (Lead Safeguarding Partner)
• Derbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner
• Education Sector Representatives
• Independent Scrutineer

 The Lead safeguarding Partners and Chief Officer Group will jointly:

• set the strategic direction, vision and culture of the local safeguarding arrangements, including agreeing and reviewing shared priorities and the resource required to deliver services effectively
• lead their organisation's individual contribution to the shared priorities, ensuring strong governance, accountability, and reporting mechanisms to hold their delegates to account for the delivery of agency commitments;
• review and sign off key partnership documents, published multi-agency safeguarding arrangements, including plans for independent scrutiny, shared annual budget, yearly report and local threshold document;
• provide shared oversight of learning from independent scrutiny, serious incidents, local child safeguarding practice reviews and national reviews, ensuring recommendations are implemented and have a demonstrable impact on practice (as set out in the yearly report);
• ensure multi-agency arrangements have the necessary level of business support, including intelligence and analytical functions, such as an agreed data set providing oversight and a robust understanding of practice;
• ensure all relevant agencies, including education settings, are clear on their role and contribution to multi-agency safeguarding arrangements.

An Executive Board is accountable to the Chief Officer Group and is responsible for delivering strategic influence through the business plan and the work of the partnership groups to improve safeguarding arrangements. The Executive Board is responsible for obtaining assurance of the effectiveness of safeguarding arrangements and emerging concerns across Derby and Derbyshire. 

In order to achieve effective multi-agency engagement, scrutiny and challenge across the partnership with suitable seniority, the Executive Board comprises of core representation at quarterly meetings, one of these being an extended membership meeting, alongside 2 stakeholder events from:

• Derby City Council
• Derbyshire County Council
• Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board
• Derbyshire Constabulary (Delegated Safeguarding Partner and Chair of Executive Board)
• The Chairs of the Derby Education Group
• The Chairs of the Derbyshire Education Group
• The Chairs of the Derby and Derbyshire Quality Assurance Group
• The Chairs of the Derby and Derbyshire Child Safeguarding Practice Review and Action Planning Group
• The Chairs of the Derby and Derbyshire Exploitation and Vulnerable Young People Group
• The Chair of the Derby and Derbyshire Policies and Procedures Group
• The Chair of the Derby and Derbyshire Learning and Organisational Development Group
• The Chair of the Derby and Derbyshire Districts Safeguarding Group
• The Chair of the Derby and Derbyshire Child Death Review Group
• The Independent Scrutineer

The extended membership comprises of representatives at an annual meeting alongside the 2 annual stakeholder events from:

• Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust
• University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
• Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
• Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS)
• DHU Healthcare / NHS 111 
• Probation
• Public Health
• Lay Member
• Office of the OPCC