Our work with statutory and governmental services and central funding bodies
NSPCC Consultancy Services
NSPCC Consultancy Services work with local authorities, central and local government departments and Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) to support their child protection and safeguarding functions.
We help agencies and departments to:
- audit and review thresholds for entry into the different levels or provision of children's services
- audit their performance
- develop more effective inter-agency working
- chair serious case reviews, prepare overview reports or conduct single agency management reviews
- audit against case review recommendations using the NSPCC guide, Safeguarding through audit
- apply current research and inquiry findings such as Serious Injury - Discrepant Explanation (SIDE)
- evaluate social work interventions
- conduct needs analyses for services
- audit services for residential and/or disabled children
- develop effective structures, implementation of business plans or facilitation of briefing days.
We are skilled in and knowledgeable about:
- child protection practice, policy, research and legislation
- applying systemic theory to professional systems and casework analysis
- developing audit tools
- involving children/service users in planning and evaluating services.
We work with you by:
- responding quickly
- offering an initial consultation free of charge
- submitting a project proposal with detailed methodology, costs and timescales
- producing reports to a high standard
- employing a project team, where necessary, to carry out the work
- providing full advice and updates throughout the life of the project
- offering a follow-up model of evaluation, to give you the confidence that your approach is working effectively.
Joint area reviews
Our services are well-placed to help children's service authorities prepare for joint area reviews (JARs) at both organisational and casework level.
In helping children's services authorities prepare to meet the requirements of the Children Act 2004 and the JAR, we have an excellent track record of:
- facilitating LSCB transition days
- developing organisational mapping tools (Signposts)
- facilitating cultural change.
NSPCC Consultancy Services have also worked with a number of local authorities and voluntary organisations to audit their safeguarding practice, using a range of methodologies.
Our auditing skills can also help children's service authorities identify which cases to put forward to the JAR team, and assess the strengths and weaknesses of safeguarding practice against the five outcomes.
Some of our customers:
- I&DeA
- Welsh Assembly Government
- British Council
- Home Office Immigration Services
- Connexions
- Ofsted
- Young Offender Institutions
- Kent LEA
- South Northamptonshire Council
- Torfaen LEA
- Various LSCBs including: Staffordshire, Coventry, Kent, Surrey, Milton Keynes, Reading, Solihull, Oxfordshire, Wigan and the London Boroughs of: Enfield, Ealing, Hounslow, Kensington & Chelsea and Lambeth.
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