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Our mission, aim and priorities

Our mission and aim

The Partnership’s mission is that all children and young people in Devon should feel safe and be protected from harm.

To fulfil this mission, our aim is to make sure that children and families get the right support, in the right place at the right time.

This aim can only be delivered through successful multi-agency working and by ensuring that children and young people feel safe and listened to. A central part of our work, then, is prioritising collaboration and strengthening relationships across the Partnership. This is also where our priorities come in, as they give us the structure around which we shape our collaborative approach. 

Our priorities

Our current priorities are:

  1. Improving outcomes of pre-birth services and the response and support provided to families to prevent non-accidental injuries to infants.
  2. Improving partnership response to child neglect.
  3. Improving response to need through developing multi-agency contextual safeguarding approaches, including risk outside the home.
  4. Improving the partnership response to domestic abuse to prevent harm to children.
  5. Implementation of the Families First Partnership Programme.

These were agreed in June 2025. Please note that all priorities are equally as important as each other – the numbering is solely to help identify each priority.

Measuring success

How will we measure success?

  • Quality Assurance Framework (QAF), analysis of data and learning from audits, case reviews, surveys, feedback from children and families, comparison with our statistical neighbours, and the national average for England.
  • Practitioner feedback from training, peer review and challenge and practice evaluation.
  • Independent Scrutiny Reviews.
  • Assurances from Improvement Board where priorities are a shared responsibility (1,2,3, 4, and 5).

What will success look like? 

  • Change – children, young people and families will tell us that their voices have been heard and their preferences and wishes recorded and met wherever possible.
  • Leadership – our workforces will tell us that they have effective leadership that creates and protects a thriving environment for highly aspirational multi-agency ambitions and expectations for all children and young people.
  • Engagement children and families will tell us that we consistently work restoratively to support them to make sustainable changes that lead to good outcomes for their children.
  • Workforce – our workforce is stable, highly skilled, and permanent.

 

If you are worried about the safety or wellbeing of a child or young person in Devon, please make a request for support or report a child safety concern.

 

In an emergency call 999.


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