Calderdale Safeguarding Children Board

Significant Harm

Overall Purpose
To develop, drive, oversee and monitor the implementation and quality assurance of Strategic Objective One, namely:

‘To identify and ensure that the needs of children and young people suffering or likely to suffer significant harm are met’

‘All children that come under a Section 47 Enquiry’

Terms of Reference

To develop and review safeguarding policies and procedures.
To ensure that effective arrangements are in place which safeguard and promote the welfare of children suffering or likely to suffer significant harm
To monitor, evaluate and ensure that appropriate arrangements for quality assurance and auditing of services are in place

Frequency of meetings
Bi-monthly, however meetings may be called at other times if this is thought to be necessary.

Accountability
The Significant Harm Sub-Group will report to the CSCB.

Core Membership
The membership of The Significant Harm Sub-Group is based on multi-agency representation. The Chair of the group should also be a CSCB member. The sub-group should have suitably skilled staff.

As a minimum the following agencies will be represented with other members being co-opted to assist with its business:

Community Service Directorate – Homeless Person’s Service/Drug Services/YOT
Health
Calderdale & Huddersfield Foundation Trust – Midwife (Drug using mothers)
Calderdale PCT – Child Safeguarding Unit
West Yorkshire Police – Child and Public Protection Unit
Voluntary Sector – Women's Centre
Legal Services
Probation
Schools – Primary/Secondary
Adult Services – SWYMHT/Social Care
C&YP Directorate – Care Services/Young People’s Service
Safeguarding Unit
Minute Taker

Current Membership

Vacancy (Chair)	Head of Care Services, Calderdale MBC
Paul Sharkey	Safeguarding Manager, CSCB
Mark Astbury	Solicitor – Law & Administration, Calderdale MBC
Veronica Mellor	Safeguarding Consultant, Learning Services, Calderdale MBC
Kay Pilling	Senior Probation Officer, Probation Centre
Carol Short	Named Nurse – Child Protection, Calderdale PCT
Isobel Todd	Team Manager – Initial Response Team, Calderdale MBC
Ashley Parkin	Principal Officer – Intensive Family Support, Calderdale MBC
Gail Lawrie	Child & Public Protection Unit, West Yorkshire Police
John Botterill	Deputy Head Teacher, Todmorden High School
Mick Mellors	Joint Head of Learning Disabilities & Mental Health, Calderdale MBC
Rachel Pickering	Domestic Violence Strategy Co-ordinator, Calderdale MBC
Lynn Walsh	Domestic Violence Team Manager, Calderdale Women’s Centre
Bernard Pollard	Secondary Consultant, Learning Services, Calderdale MBC

The other sub-groups are:

Click on the links for more information about the sub-groups.