Statutory Audits

The Suffolk Safeguarding Partnership have a remit to ensure that there are effective arrangements in place to protect children, young people and adults at risk from harm. This combined self-assessment is designed to provide partner agencies with the opportunity to highlight areas of strength, as well as to identify areas for development, in respect of their duties and responsibilities for safeguarding children, young people and adults at risk.

Section 11 of the Children Act 2004 places ‘duties on a range of organisations, agencies and individuals to ensure their functions, and any services that they contract out to others, are discharged having regard to the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of children’.

 The self-assessment tool is a full year review of safeguarding practice undertaken once a year which helps partners identify what’s working well, what’s not working so well and what needs to happen to improve things. It allows the SSP to provide a level of scrutiny and monitoring across the partnership.