LSCP Quality Assurance Group
Group Purpose:
Lead, direct and support coordinated multi-agency audit, scrutiny and review activity, which enables the LSCP Executive, to assess the effectiveness of services for children in need of protection and help.
Accountability:
The Liverpool Safeguarding Children Partnership Quality Assurance Group will be accountable to the Liverpool Safeguarding Children Partnership Forum and the LSCP Executive, for the operational frameworks for delivery of audit, scrutiny, and performance review.
Responsibilities:
- Lead engagement with multi-agency audit activity, as directed by the LSCP Executive, evaluating the effectiveness of safeguarding services provided to children and families in Liverpool.
- Facilitate scrutiny and evaluation of partnership data, qualitative and quantitative and intelligence identifying themes, trends, issues and areas of concern to support recommendations for the improvement of safeguarding policy, procedure and practice.
- Support child safeguarding practice reviews, national and local.
- From scrutiny, audit and review, identify themes, issues and learning reporting to the LSCP Executive, LSCP Forum and Learning, Practice & Workforce Development Group as required.
- Identify serious child safeguarding cases which raise issues of importance, progressing as deemed necessary by the LSCP Executive.
- Facilitate, via nominated members as part of a Rapid Review Panel, response to serious incidents in accordance with statutory requirements.
Membership
Membership of the Liverpool Safeguarding Children Partnership is compliant with the requirements as set out in the Working Together to Safeguard Child document.
Meetings & Frequency:
All meetings will have representation, delegated or otherwise, from all safeguarding partners. (Relevant agency representation will be as deemed necessary). Meetings will take place monthly.