2022 Centre for Child Protection Collaboration Awards
The Centre for Child Protection (CCP) celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2022. Amongst the various activities marking the milestone, a new award* was introduced for child protection professionals engaged in outstanding collaborative work across disciplines.
*Collaboration Award 2022: Celebrating Outstanding Multidisciplinary Working
Submissions were sought from child protection workers engaged in creative, effective, and collaborative practices across disciplines. The entries were judged by a multi-disciplinary panel of independent and impartial adjudicators.
The winners and runners-up were announced on 9 November during celebratory anniversary event.
Winners - Vulnerable Adolescent Panel (Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board)
The Vulnerable Adolescent Panel was created due to the growing problem of extrafamilial harm, which presents a risk to young people in our communities and creates challenges for professionals. The panel consists of health, police, children’s social care and the youth offending service who have worked together to achieve a shared sense of ownership and responsibility for success.
The panel provides a forum for timely and robust expert guidance, advice to professionals and information sharing between agencies who are working with young people at risk of extrafamilial harm. The time and dedication required to create this show a systemwide commitment to tackling child exploitation.
Highly Commended – Ynys Môn Local Authority
The young carers services deliver specialist support to children and young people ages between 5-18 living in Ynys Môn who have caring responsibilities at home. Ynys Môn local authority prides itself on collaborative working, resulting in greater communication between services, effective information sharing and efficient early intervention. They are also dedicated to offering their services in Welsh and English so they can successfully communicate with all children and young people.
Highly Commended – Joint Agency Group Supervision (JAGS) (Norfolk Safeguarding Children Partnership)
JAGS was initiated in response to learning which identified a need for ringfenced time to reflect on challenges and barriers to intervention in complex cases. JAGS provides a reflective space for joint analysis to learn together and understand the family’s lived experiences. JAGS works across children’s social care, health, education, and police and has supported collaborators to move from feeling ‘helpless’ and ‘frustrated’, to feeling ‘confident’ and ‘enthusiastic’. This has led to strong multi-agency working, understanding of different roles, improved communication, and advocacy for children.