Issue - meetings

-        Phil Morris, Safeguarding Children and Families to report

Phil Morris, Rotherham Local Safeguarding Children Board (RLSB), submitted a proposed Protocol which outlined and confirmed the functions and responsibilities of Rotherham’s key strategic partnerships i.e. the RLSB, the Children, Young People and Families Partnership (CYPFSP) and the Health and Wellbeing Board.  It also set out the relationship between them, providing clarity and ensuring that the needs of children and young people in the Borough were identified and addressed at a strategic level:-

-          The CYPFSP will formally report to the HWBB on the progress update against the relevant priorities (in line with the Health and Wellbeing Strategy) of both the CYPFSP and the key milestones and targets within the Children and Young People’s Commissioning Plan

-          The RLSCB will submit its Annual Report of the Health and Wellbeing Board

-          The Health and Wellbeing Board will ensure that:

The Joint Strategic Needs Assessment takes account of key areas for vulnerable children identified via the RLSCB Annual Report and the CYPFSP key priorities.  The Director of Public Health had specific responsibility for this

-          The Health and Wellbeing Board may also request that the CYPFSP and/or the RLSCB to consider issues for development, action or scrutiny

Resolved:-  That the Protocol be approved and be put into operation with immediate effect.