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Our shared purpose, principles and values

Our shared purpose, principles, and values guide and shape everything that we do.

Our shared purpose

Chapter 2 of Working Together 2023 states that the purpose of local safeguarding children partnership arrangements is to support and enable local organisations and agencies to work together in a system where:

  • Children are safeguarded and their welfare is promoted
  • Partner organisations and agencies collaborate, share and co-own the vision for how to achieve improved outcomes for vulnerable children
  • Organisations and agencies challenge appropriately and hold one another to account effectively
  • There is early identification and analysis of new safeguarding issues and emerging threats
  • We work together to capture the voice and experience of parents/carers, children and young people and practitioners
  • Learning is promoted and embedded in a way that local services for children and families can become more reflective and implement changes to practice
  • Information is shared effectively to facilitate more accurate and timely decision making for children and families

Our shared principles

  • Children are best brought up in families. 
  • We will work restoratively to support families to find their own solutions. 
  • We will listen to each other and work together with services shaped by all. 
  • Children and families will always know where they stand with us. 

Our shared restorative values

  • Relational – We are trustworthy, caring and collaborative; we value the contribution made by all our partners; we build and maintain good quality relationships with our children, young people and families.
  • Respect – We are open and honest with each other, and with children, young people, families and communities; we communicate clearly, we are inclusive and respect the characteristics and backgrounds of children and young people.
  • Responsibility – We take responsibility for our actions and we keep the commitments we make to partners, children, young people and their families; we are empowering, building on existing strengths and enabling children, young people and families to have responsibility over their own lives so that positive change is lasting.
  • Resilience – We are curious, patient, trauma informed and person centred.
  • Reflective – We are flexible, responsive, outcomes-focused and demonstrate appropriate professional curiosity in all our work in all our agencies.

 

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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