Agenda item

Report of the Assistant Director of People Services

The Sub Committee received a report of the Director of Community & Children’s Services informing Members of the mechanisms currently in place in the Department of Community and Children’s Services to enable staff at all levels in the Children and Families Service to raise safeguarding concerns and issues with managers and, if they feel these are not being considered appropriately, how they will be escalated to senior managers as necessary. 

The report also highlighted the formal Escalation Policy agreed by the City and Hackney Safeguarding Children Board which provided transparency and organisational accountability for ensuring that conflicts between staff from partner agencies are formally addressed and, if necessary, escalated to the Independent Chair of the Local Safeguarding Children Board.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted.