All Coventry schools have effective safeguarding measures in place
The findings come from the latest report by Coventry Safeguarding Children’s Partnership
All Coventry’s schools have effective safeguarding arrangements in place according to the latest report by the group tasked with keeping the city’s children and young people protected.
Coventry Safeguarding Children’s Partnership (CSCP), which is largely funded by the city council with contributions from Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board and West Midlands Police, carries out an annual assessment of schools to review the effectiveness of safeguarding children.
This is done to ensure they comply with government legislation.
The latest CSCP annual report explained that there had been a 100 per cent completion rate from schools and the audit revealed they were performing well and had effective safeguarding arrangements in place to keep children safe.
It added: “All schools who completed the audit self-assessed as either grade one (outstanding) or grade two (good) in relation to their safeguarding arrangements, demonstrating high levels of performance which offered a good level of assurance to the partnership. It is important for schools to use their self–assessment and the key learning from the audit as a basis to continually develop their safeguarding arrangements.
“All schools were able to generate an action plan to address any areas where improvement was required and will ultimately be responsible for ensuring the identified areas for improvement are addressed and their action plans are completed within the specified timescales. The safeguarding in education adviser will work directly to support schools to improve and develop their safeguarding arrangements and provide assurance to the partnership about progress being made regarding the identified development opportunities.”
The report went on to explain that Coventry benefited from strong links with schools and headteachers and engagement had been strengthened through a number of measures.
These include the council’s director for children’s services and education sitting on the executive board and becoming one of the delegated safeguarding partners.
Among the other highlights flagged up during a meeting of the city council’s education and children’s services scrutiny board this week (Thursday) was that more than 2,500 practitioners have attended Coventry Safeguarding Children’s Partnership training, webinars and learning events and that a safeguarding action group is now made up of 210 frontline practitioners across 100 agencies, ensuring that key messages are seen.