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At the request of the Chair, each partner reported as to the governance taking place within their organisation and what their respective priorities were in response to the findings of the Jay report:-

Rotherham Local Safeguarding Children Board

The Board Chair, Steve Ashley, reported that the Board was at the early stages of preparing an action plan in response to the Jay Report although the CSE Sub Group has incorporated the recommendations into its action plan. The outcome of the recent inspection from Ofsted was awaited and would impact upon the action plan currently being compiled.  Urgent areas of work being undertaken were:- 

-          Auditing - the auditing process that the Board undertook to reassure itself that partners were fully engaged.  There were now extra resources to increase the amount of auditing carried out.  A thematic audit process had been put in place where audits would be repeated over a period of time until satisfied that the Board and partners were fulfilling its function e.g. auditing had commenced on cases where contact had been made through the “front door” and those that were determined “no further action required” as to whether those decision were correctly made.  The findings would be reported on a monthly basis. 

-          Building contact with all the communities in Rotherham.  Work had been commissioned as to how that would take place recognising that all partners were engaged in some form of community liaison so as to avoid duplication.  There was a need to get on with this work urgently. 

-          The Board had considered the recommendations and had submitted a report requesting the development of a Needs Assessment and Commissioning Plan for a Post-Abuse Support Service.  The Jay report had clearly highlighted that there could be anything up to 1,400 victims and it had been the original intention to try and identify as many as possible.  However, this was not thought to be a practical course of action so there was a need for support to be available for when victims came forward.  It was also important that there were plans and support in place for those victims who were now over the age of 18 and not just for current children and young people who were victims of CSE. 

-          There had been dialogue between the Chairs of the Safeguarding Adults Board and Local Safeguarding Children Board to ensure that they were working together to support young people through transition to adulthood.  It was imperative that any individual received appropriate services throughout their lives and continued into adulthood. 

Public Health

Dr. John Radford reported on the overall provision that partners had put into place for post-abuse support.

-          Needs Assessment – work was underway with the CSE Group and a set of indicators developed with the Framework of Need placed within the JSNA.  The work would give an indication of need in the medium term as well as an indication of service performance in relation to people accessing that need.  Performance measures in terms of  ...  view the full minutes text for item 33.

Wednesday, 12th November, 2014, commencing at 1.00 p.m.

Resolved:-  (1)  That a meeting of the Health and Wellbeing Board be held on Wednesday, 12th November, 2014, commencing at 1.00 p.m. in the Rotherham Town Hall.