Key Documents

Children’s MARS ‘Shine a Light’ Areas of Focus

There are specific areas of focus in which the Children’s MARS Board wish to ‘shine a light’ on and to maintain oversight of to ensure there is focused partnership action, system change and robust practice to contribute to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and families.

The ‘shine a light’ areas of focus for 2024/25 are:

  • Further develop the multi-agency approach to transitions to adulthood and ensure relevant assessments carried out in childhood assist professionals understanding in adulthood
  • Further develop our understanding of and our multi agency response to domestic abuse and the impact on children including what our offer looks like for children who have experienced domestic abuse
  • Implementing WT2023 and the Children’s Social Care National Framework

As well as our specific ‘shine a light’ areas of focus, the Children’s MARS Board adopts a ‘right to roam’ approach and as such, will maintain a line of sight across the early help and safeguarding pathway in order to seek assurance, challenge, shape and influence partnership action and system change, some of which are the responsibility of other partnership and planning frameworks.  As part of this, to orientate ‘line of sight’ activity, the Children’s MARS Board will take account of performance, practice wisdom and voice and experiences on wider emerging need and harm.

Risk Outside the Home Strategy 2022/25

The North Lincolnshire Risk Outside the Home Strategy is set within the context of the One Family Approach. It sets out our response to risk outside the home by building upon the robust multi-agency arrangements already in place for tackling the different forms of risk outside the home.

North Lincolnshire Risk Outside the Home Strategy 2022/25