The North West Childrens Safeguarding Partnership
The partnership brings together the 24 Local Safeguarding Childrens Partnerships to:
Collaborate better to improve child centred, multi-agency practice;
nurturing a culture of trust, accountability,
and support for our children.
The long-term vision is for a self-improving partnership led system, co-produced by local leaders, focused on promoting whole systems thinking to enable every child in the North West to be safe, happy and thriving.
Delegated and Lead Safeguarding Partners in the region have committed to leading the partnership through the following principles, signed up to within our NW MoU:
We will:
Be Child and Family Led: Every action we take will be grounded in the views, experiences, and needs of babies, children, young people and families, ensuring they are at the heart of all safeguarding efforts
Be Transparent and Open to Challenge: Transparency and a willingness to be challenged will drive our work, allowing accountability and mutual support and trust to flourish. We will leave defensiveness at the front door and be honest about our strengths and areas to improve, so we can improve better together.
Share practice and expertise to allow effective collaboration: We will prioritise understanding and communicating the effectiveness of our multi-agency practices at a local, sub-regional, and regional level, informing meaningful and impactful collaboration and decision-making and enabling high quality safeguarding practice.
Respect Individuality and promote Equitability: We commit to respecting and treating each individual justly, with attention to their unique circumstances, barriers, and needs.
Offer Mutual Support and Professional Development: We will provide support generously to colleagues facing challenges, helping to build professional connections and growth today, for a stronger tomorrow. We will embrace opportunities to learn together.
To facilitate this, our approach is embedded in:
-Sharing what already working
-Enabling local partnerships to demonstrate impact and effectiveness
-Collaborate on common challenge and horizon scanning, preventing duplication in the system
