1. Mission to MARS – taking children’s services to outstanding and beyond

2. Why change? Children’s Multi
Agency Resilience and Safeguarding Arrangements
CLARE
Why change?
Reference to outstanding LSCB and evidence of working in partnership
Reference to Wood Review, Children and Social Work Act and Working Together 2018
No longer a need to have LSCBs – superceded by multi agency safeguarding arrangements
Local flexibilities – embracing opportunities
Early Adopter – delighted and proud to be an early adopter, leading from the front, sharing best practice
As an early adopter, we will listen, learn, review and adapt as we implement our Local Arrangements. To reflect this, our Local Arrangements will be reviewed and republished as appropriate and will be subject to a formal review in June 2019.
Ambition to be ‘beyond outstanding’
Nationally MASA, but locally we are on a Mission to MARS to be ‘out of this world’
Multi agency resilience and safeguarding – focusses on our responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, with the change in language highlighting our commitment to the protection, prevention and promotion of children’s resilience – shift to the left
Local arrangements plan underpinned by memorandum of understanding between the three safeguarding partners
(Pictures – picture of the world where we are outstanding and our mission to mars and beyond outstanding)

3. What do we want to achieve?
DARREN
What do we want to achieve?
The intent is to:
Co-produce with children, young people and families using their strengths and assets to develop services to meet their individual needs
Key – children and young people at the centre of all we do
Provide robust independent scrutiny and assurance to the partnership in relation to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in North Lincolnshire
Key - statutory safeguarding partners and others have a responsibility to scrutinise and assure ourselves of our local services, provision, systems and processes – tiger with teeth
Make children’s safeguarding personal and swift so they remain in families, in school
Build children, young people and families resilience
Drive an even stronger partnership with schools, colleges and local agencies
(Pictures – each one refers to one of the intents – so coproduction, quality assurance, cyp in schools in families in communities, the things cyp and families need to be resilient and the strength of working in partnership)

4. How will we know when we get there?
DARREN
How will we know when we get there?
Refer back to intent:
children and young people in schools, in families – performance and intelligence confirms this
partnerships – partners and agencies are involved and engaged and working together and evidence of learning and improvement and improved practice
(Pictures – achievement, getting to where we want to be, acknowledging success/outcomes, slightly resembles on top of the world/out of this world)

5. What practically does this mean?
Voice and Engagement
Stakeholder Partnership
Children’s MARS Board
Scrutiny and Assurance Framework
Early Help Strategic Leads Group
Safeguarding Pathway Lead Officers Group
Safeguarding Practice Learning and Improvement Group
Children’s Safeguarding Practice Review Group
Groups relating to areas of focus – domestic abuse, child exploitation and neglect
Functions
MICK
What practically does this mean?
How will we do this?
Refer back to intent:
Drive an even stronger partnership with schools, colleges and local agencies
Reiterate the local arrangements plan underpinned by the memorandum of understanding
We were an outstanding LSCB, so we had already made some moves towards the new arrangements – leading the way – but the new arrangements provides us with opportunities to reinforce and refine our direction of travel.
Partnerships and governance
Children’s MARS Board – systems leaders
Early Help Strategic Leads Group
Safeguarding Pathway Lead Officers Group
Safeguarding Practice Learning and Improvement Group
Children’s Safeguarding Practice Review Group
Groups relating to areas of focus – domestic abuse, child exploitation and neglect
Underpinning and associated partnerships, groups and forums – i.e. CDOP, Multi Agency Looked After Partnership, Education and SEND Standards Board, Multi Agency Missing Children Group etc
Functions
Communications
Training
Performance
Voice and Engagement – two way flow – shapes and influences the whole system
Importance of children, young people and families – refer back to intent – co-production
Stakeholder Partnership – two way flow – shapes, influences and implements change
Importance of safeguarding partner organisations, selected relevant agencies and other agencies and organisations
Helping and Protecting Children is everyone’s business
Part of North Lincolnshire as a place – reference to wider partnership and governance arrangements – i.e. Community Safety Partnership – all working towards the same ambition – improving outcomes
Shift to the left
(Pictures – just our partnership and governance arrangements)
Associated partnerships and forums

6. What practically does this mean?
Scrutiny and Assurance Framework
Assurance Events
Independent Scrutiny
Multi agency learning process and line of sight events
Safeguarding partners organisational scrutiny functions
Safeguarding practice reviews and learning reviews
Section 11 process
MICK
What practically does this mean?
How will we do this?
Refer back to intent:
Provide robust independent scrutiny and assurance to the partnership in relation to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in North Lincolnshire - scrutiny and assurance – one of the biggest changes – more focus on this - opportunities at every level, reflection, right to roam, leading to learning and improvement leading to better outcomes
Scrutiny and assurance
Assurance events
Independent scrutiny
Multi agency learning process and line of sight events
Safeguarding partners organisational scrutiny functions
Safeguarding practice reviews and learning reviews
Section 11 process
Young voice quality assurance processes
Early Adopters – tested out elements of the scrutiny and assurance framework – can test further and refine – further opportunities
(Pictures – strands within scrutiny and assurance framework)

7. What practically does this mean?
MICK
What practically does this mean?
What does this mean for all of us?
What will be different – what will we see that’s different – how will we be different?
Opportunities – to test things out, do what works, not do what we’ve always done
Leadership at every level
Refer back to intent:
co-production – focus on how do we empower children, young people and families to contribute and to lead and how do we empower the workforce to develop agile solutions
building resilience – focus on children, young people and families, but also across the workforce
(Pictures – wordle to reflect some of the key words and intents)

8. What practically does this mean?
MICK
What practically does this mean?
How will we get there?
Multi Agency Innovation Hub – key driver
New ways of working together
Integration, co-location, localities
Demand management – decreasing efficiencies and duplication and increasing effectiveness
Targetting resources and deploying different working patterns and working arrangements
Developing intelligence, profiling, performance – understanding our population, understanding need, what are they good at
Commissioning and partnerships
Challenge yourselves – what will you do differently when you go back to work on Monday, next month, next year?
(Pictures – light bulb moment, innovation, reinventing ourselves, different ways of doing things to meet need and once we know what we’re doing, working together to do what we need to do)

9. ‘’I am resilient and I feel safeguarded’
children, young people and families in North Lincolnshire
Mission to MARS – children’s services that are outstanding and beyond
The purpose of our Mission to MARS………

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