The AoCPP’s Lunch and Learn
'Multi-Agency Responsibility in Reporting and Investigating Safeguarding Complaints'
15 June 2023, 12.00pm - 1.30pm
Speaker: Wendy Thorogood
Multi-Agency working is key to effective safeguarding and child and adult protection. Children and families, and vulnerable adults will access a wide range of services throughout their life. It is important for practitioners to work together to gain a full overview and a co-ordinated approach to support. The failure to do this is a common reason for complaints as identified in learning reviews.
Complaints can come from many different areas, about process, professionals access to care, escalation of concerns for a child or adult’s welfare. The question is are we getting it right?
| Ticket Type | Price | Cart |
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| Non Members Rate-Lunch and Learn meeting-Multi-Agency Responsibility in Reporting and Investigating Safeguarding Complaints- 15 June 2023 | £15.00 | |
| Members Rate-Lunch and Learn meeting-Multi-Agency Responsibility in Reporting and Investigating Safeguarding Complaints- 15 June 2023 | £0.00 |
Wendy Thorogood is a retired Designated Nurse Consultant for children with NHS Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) based in Dorchester. She trained at St Guy's hospital in London, specialising in child and adult nursing intensive care and cardiac and renal transplants.
Wendy delivered the national leadership programme for safeguarding for the Department of Health and worked directly with the NHS Confederation in relation to current changes, including: providing assurance that current and future providers of services are compliant in relation to safeguarding national and local standards; working with Lead Commissioners and the performance team to develop agreed key performance indicators and safety metrics for providers; and identifying and taking appropriate action on key risks and issues across commissioned services that may affect safeguarding of children and young people.
Wendy has also spent time working in a maternity unit in South Africa in a maternity unit and a Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) in Kent. She has also worked with drug users to improve maternal care - a project that still runs today.
I think Child Abuse Review has gone from strength to strength and is of a consistently high standard. We have held numerous events that have been inspiring and enabling, such as the most recent Congresses and the Trainer's conference and award ceremony, the seminars to disseminate lessons from Serious Case Reviews. As resources get ever tighter, professionals have fewer and fewer opportunities to come together to exchange ideas and to learn together. We move more and more into silos because of work pressures. This is not the way to keep children safe. Association of Child Protection Professionals is needed to bring people concerned about child protection together to learn, to think, to shape policy and practice and to disseminate research. No-one else does this.
