Agenda item

Report from the Executive Director of Children and Young People’s Services.

Recommendations:

1.    That Cabinet note the contents of the Rotherham SCP Annual Assurance Report 2024/25.

Consideration was given to the report which presented the Rotherham Safeguarding Children’s Partnership Annual Report for 2024/25. Each Local Safeguarding Children’s Partnership (SCP) was required to produce and publish an annual assurance report. The annual assurance report, dated September 2025 and covering the period April 2024 to March 2025, was considered and approved by the Lead Safeguarding Partners ahead of its submission to the national Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel and the Department for Education. The report was considered at Improving Lives Select Commission in December 2025.

Section 2.1 of the report detailed the matters which had to be addressed as specified by Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023. Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 was statutory guidance which governs how agencies work to help and protect children. The Independent Scrutineer had determined that the Annual Assurance Report 2024/25 met these criteria.

The Cabinet Member for Children and Young People stated that strong multi-agency arrangements were in place and she wished to record her thanks to the Rotherham SCP for their hard work. The Executive Director of Children and Young People’s services stated that it had been a very positive year.

Resolved:

1.    That Cabinet note the contents of the Rotherham SCP Annual Assurance Report 2024/25.