Roles and Responsibilities

The role of the North Yorkshire Safeguarding Children Board is to:

Promote and facilitate initiatives to reduce harm to children.
Establish, monitor and review interagency Safeguarding Children procedures.
Collect and analyse information with regard to the demands on agencies and the nature of their responses. Assessing this information maximises positive outcomes for children, young people and their families
Promote and provide training and to assist in the development of practitioner's skills.
Increase professional and public awareness of specific issues.
Enquire into cases of abuse and neglect where a child has died or suffered serious harm and to review significant issues arising from such enquiries.
Review arrangements for interagency liaison.

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