{"id":501,"date":"2015-05-12T10:51:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T09:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/?p=501"},"modified":"2024-12-18T13:08:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T13:08:08","slug":"about-the-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/children\/safeguarding-children-board\/about-the-board\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The updated new arrangements for South Gloucestershire were published on 18th December 2024.\u00a0 They replaced the initial arrangements published in 2019 when the South Gloucestershire Children’s Partnership formerly replaced the South Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Board.<\/p>\n

South Gloucestershire Children’s Partnership Arrangements 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

The Children’s Partnership is the new statutory body in accordance with Working Together 2023<\/a>.\u00a0 The main changes are that there are now three organisations that have an equal and shared duty to make arrangements to work together with relevant agencies to safeguard and promote the welfare of all children in South Gloucestershire.<\/p>\n

The structure of the partnership is explained here<\/a><\/p>\n

Members of The Executive<\/h3>\n

The Executive meets quarterly and is comprised of the three statutory partners the local authority, the police and the clinical commissioning group.\u00a0 The Head of Safeguarding for South Gloucestershire Council also attends as chair of the Senior Officers Group.<\/p>\n

Local Authority: Executive Director, Department for People, South Gloucestershire Council<\/p>\n

ICB: Director of Nursing, BNSSG ICB<\/p>\n

Police: Exploitation & Safeguarding Chief Superintendent, Avon & Somerset Police<\/p>\n

Senior Officers Group<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Senior Officers Group (SOG) meets quarterly and is chaired by the Head of Safeguarding for South Gloucestershire Council and has a membership of the chairs of the work streams for the partnership and the business manager.\u00a0 The work streams are chaired by the three statutory partners, and membership of each work stream is drawn from the wider workforce including community and voluntary representatives. There are three workstreams:<\/p>\n

Best Start for Children with Complex Needs – chairing provided by the ICB<\/p>\n

Best Start for Vulnerable Children – chairing provided by the Police<\/p>\n

Best Start in Life – chairing provided by the Local Authority<\/p>\n

The Stakeholder Network<\/h3>\n

Membership of the stakeholder network is drawn from former members of the Safeguarding Children Board and the Children, Young People and Families Partnership and their sub groups.\u00a0 This forum meets twice a year and is chaired by the Executive.<\/p>\n

Contact The Partnership<\/h3>\n

The Children’s Partnership Business Manager can be contacted for business related enquiries on 01454 863136.<\/p>\n

Please do not use this phone number to report concerns about children. If you are worried about a child please call 01454 866000 – Monday to Friday, 01454 615165 Out of hours\/weekends. In an emergency please ring 999<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The updated new arrangements for South Gloucestershire were published on 18th December 2024.\u00a0 They replaced the initial arrangements published in 2019 when the South Gloucestershire Children’s Partnership formerly replaced the South Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Board. South Gloucestershire Children’s Partnership Arrangements 2024 The Children’s Partnership is the new statutory body in accordance with Working Together 2023.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36972,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/36972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/safeguarding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}