Tees Safeguarding Children and Adults Joint Review Protocol

Safeguarding Adult Reviews, Domestic Homicide Reviews and Safeguarding Children Practice Reviews

Purpose: For the Teeswide Safeguarding Adults Board, Tees Community Safety Partnerships and Tees Safeguarding Children Partnerships to review their own Learning Review Procedures in respect of the suggestions outlined below. This is to develop a more coordinated approach and to improve lines of communication between partnerships with regards to learning from Reviews.

This protocol links to the Teeswide Safeguarding Adults Board Strategic Business Plan and the following objectives/actions:

People:

  • Objective: Learn from the findings of local, regional and national Safeguarding Adult Reviews and Learning Lessons Reviews and applicable Domestic Homicide Reviews and Safeguarding Children Practice Reviews and implement action plans.
  • Action: Developing and implementing action plans for all Safeguarding Adult Reviews, Learning Lessons Reviews and applicable Domestic Homicide Review and Safeguarding Children Practice Reviews; including sharing learning across partner agencies and seeking assurance that the learning has been embedded into practice.

Joint Working:

  • Objective: Collaborate with the Local Safeguarding Children Partnerships, Community Safety Partnerships, Domestic Abuse Steering Groups, Health and Wellbeing Boards and Strategic Vulnerable Exploited Missing and Trafficked Group to deliver joint priorities and objectives.
  • Action: Delivering an effective learning, training and development programme guided by learning from Safeguarding Adults Reviews to include trauma informed practice and contextual safeguarding

Protocol

  • We will strengthen our notification/ referral forms to remind us to notify each other. Only those relevant?
  • The Community Safety Partnerships will consider introducing a numbering/case reference system for Domestic Homicide Reviews across Tees? i.e. upon receipt of a notification/ referral we let others know so the same numbers aren’t used?
  • Update notification/ referral forms – need contact details.
  • Do all forms make reference to care and support needs?
  • We will strengthen our notification/ referral forms to remind us to notify each other. Only those relevant?
  • The Community Safety Partnerships will consider introducing a numbering/case reference system for Domestic Homicide Reviews across Tees? i.e. upon receipt of a notification/ referral we let others know so the same numbers aren’t used?
  • Update notification/ referral forms – need contact details.
  • Do all forms make reference to care and support needs?
  • Are there any meetings where Community Safety Partnerships, Teeswide Safeguarding Adults Board or Safeguarding Children Partnerships could attend, to highlight any emerging themes/learning that can be fed back to partners?
  • Teeswide Safeguarding Adults Board/ Safeguarding Children Partnerships could be covered by Business Managers meeting as an agenda item.
  • How do we manage Domestic Homicide Review aspect?
  • Determine if it is appropriate to invite each other to the Board/Governance meeting where the case/learning is discussed in detail.
  • We will individually support implementation of the action plan and provide evidence where necessary.
  • Consider if there is any work that can be done jointly?
  • ‘Think Family’ – Governance Meetings to consider other partnerships when drafting action plans.
  • Need to be clear who is leading on actions so as not to duplicate.
  • Circulate to each other and forward via our own networks
  • Newsletters
  • We will consider using as case studies in relevant training courses
  • Presentations to other Boards/Review Sub-Groups
  • We will consider each other when arranging Learning Events
  • How can we support each other to show that learning has been embedded?
  • Does anything need raising at a Regional / National level?
  • Procedures to reflect publication process

To Note:

* Could be significant delays if doing a joint Domestic Homicide Reviews/other review due to Home Office

*Would need to know key contacts from each Board/Partnership – who coordinates the reviews, who provides admin support, who would be a rep at meetings etc.

Version Control:

Version Number: 2

Date Approved: February 2023