Agenda item - Local Safeguarding Children Board Annual Report 2014-15

Report of the Statutory Director for Children’s Services (copy attached).

34.1         The Chair of the Local Safeguarding Children’s Board introduced the Annual report for 2014/15 and stated that the Board had been delighted to achieve a ‘Good’ judgement following the recent Ofsted inspection.  He stated that the Board was keen to increase its lay membership and had made significant changes in the way that Child Sexual Exploitation had been approached.  He believed it was an excellent report and commended it to the Board.

34.2         The Chair welcomed the report and stated that the work of the Board had been excellent and duly recognised by the Ofsted inspection.

34.3         RESOLVED:

(1)          That the Annual report be noted and the Board’s support to the City Council in their contribution to keep children safe from abuse and neglect be noted; and

(2)          That the Local Safeguarding Children’s Board’s achievements as detailed on page 9 and the challenges for 2015/16 as detailed on page 10 of the report be noted.