Diagnostic Reviews and Transformation: (Child Centred, Evidence Based and Collaborative)

Multi Agency Teams, Safeguarding Partnerships, Better Start for Life, Family First and Youth Futures

We provide diagnostic reviews of the systems, processes, connectivity and practice using innovative design expertise. We work with you to create the most effective context appropriate service structures delivering outstanding social work and partnership practice ensuring early, relationship-based support with real-time impact reporting that meets national expectations.

Our pathways, training and dashboards are explicitly mapped to support multi agency teams and safeguarding partnership in line with the Start for Life service expectations and the Families First reforms.

We identify the most efficient ways to respond quickly and appropriately to all levels of need, harm and risk to children and young people

Who we are

As the originators of the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) concept and Early Help Offer we now work with highly experienced social work and safeguarding professionals supporting and improving systems, practice, and partnership working.

Over the years we have evolved Multi Agency Safeguarding concepts to a whole system approach encompassing children services front doors and all connected pathways ensuring safeguarding issues are not missed.

We believe in decisive practice when harm indicators emerge, clear lines of accountability with minimum duplication and timely, proportionate family help.

We recognise that the effectiveness of each part of children's social care with their safeguarding partners must deliver the best outcomes for children and young people.

How we deliver for you

Diagnostic of service areas aligned to government strands including connected processes and functions
Review information and knowledge management and the timely identification and analysis of need, harm and risk
Examine decision making, compliance and governance activities encompassing the use of systems and professional behaviours
Consider if intervention, diversion and prevention decisions are being made in the best interest of the child and young person, co production and lived experience is understood and represented in practice and the no delay principle is being applied
Auditing to identify practice learning and system issues
Evidence based report with recommendations for the delivery of the most effective implementation together with practice learning to drive continual service improvement, organisational change to deliver measurable outcomes through multi agency and specialist practice
Training and Capacity Building.

Nigel Boulton

Partner

Nigel is the original designer of the multi agency safeguarding hub (MASH). Nigel served as a Police officer and has over 35 years of experience in organisational leadership, management and innovation together with a strong background in safeguarding professional practice…

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How you benefit

Our delivery is directly mapped to the government's Better Start for Life framework, ensuring compliance and relevance
Our models in practice is fully integrated with national priorities for early intervention and family resilience
Evidence and experience based oversight of how children move through the system and the standards of practice within each part
Evidence based, Policy aligned Approach
Faster decision making
Improved safeguarding
Better family engagement
Recommendations and cutting edge design to ensure the most effective and efficient service for the partnership and social care
Voice of the child and young person is visible at every stage and in every process used
A proactive early and coordinated approach contextualising family strengths and risk from the outset to build on resilience and getting families the right help and support quickly
Efficient and enhanced demand management through the earliest interventions by a partnership
Lean information systems and business process that support staff to record work accurately and efficiently
Well-supported, confident and knowledgeable staff with managers who have an overview of the child's journey through monitoring
Performance monitoring, management and quality assurance arrangements that support managers and drive improvement
Improved partnership working
Lawful and appropriate information sharing

Working with you to identify the most efficient ways to respond quickly and appropriately to all levels of need, harm and risk to children, young people and their families.

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