Agenda item

A report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services (copy attached).

The Sub Committee received a report from the Director of Community and Children’s Services regarding the City and Hackney Children Safeguarding Board Annual Report 2012/13. Officers informed the Sub Committee that this was a statutory report which outlined demographic information, governance, performance, quality assurance, and priorities for 2013/14. The report also detailed an increase in training, which was now being held in the City to help prevent a Hackney-centric approach.  

Members noted the need for an organisational diagram to set out the relationship between groups, in particular the Children’s Executive Board and the Health and Wellbeing Board, and highlighted a number of inaccuracies within the document. As Deputy Chairman for the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Board of Governors, Deputy Bennett queried their absence in some of the attendance tables. It was noted that while the school had a Safeguarding representative they had only recently been appointed to the Sub Committee and this report predated the appointment. The Director of Community and Children’s Services advised Members that a meeting had been set up with schools in November to address low attendance of City of London Safeguarding Children Sub Committee meetings.

Officers agreed to circulate an organisational diagram to Members of the Sub Committee.