Berkshire West Safeguarding Children Partnership Assurance Documents
BWSCP Priorities 2025 to 2028
The Delegated Safeguarding Partners in the BWSCP, have agreed as of March 2025 the following Priorities:
- Priority 1: Lead Wokingham Borough Council – Safeguarding & Support for Children and Young People from Intra Familial Harm
- Priority 2: Lead Thames Valley Police - Safeguarding & Support for Children and Young People from Extra Familial Harm
- Priority 3: Lead Brighter Futures for Children - Safeguarding & Support for Children and Young People from Domestic Abuse
- Priority 4: Lead West Berkshire Council - Safeguarding & Support for Children Missing Education
- Priority 5: Lead Integrated Care Board - Safeguarding & Support for Pre-School Children, Reducing Neglect
Further details of the Priorities and intended Outcomes can be found here
Annual Reports
As required in Working Together to Safeguard Children, in order to bring transparency for children, families and all practitioners about the activity undertaken, the safeguarding partners must publish a report at least once in every 12-month period.
The report must set out what they have done as a result of the arrangements, including on child safeguarding practice reviews, and how effective these arrangements have been in practice.
Below are links to our latest annual reports:
Berkshire West Safeguarding Children Partnership Annual Report 2023/2024
Berkshire West Safeguarding Children Partnership Annual Report 2022/2023
Berkshire West Safeguarding Children Partnership Annual Report 2021/2022
Berkshire West Safeguarding Children Partnership Annual Report 2020/2021
Berkshire West Safeguarding Children Partnership Annual Report 2019/2020
Berkshire West Local Safeguarding Children Board Annual Report 2018/2019
Quality Assurance Framework
The Berkshire West Safeguarding Children Partnership (BWSCP) Quality Assurance Framework (QAF) combines various data sources to assist the Partnership to understand the quality of practice to safeguard children and young people. The Framework is designed to help generate a culture where the best standards of practice are expected, by providing high challenge and high support. The challenge comes via rigorous scrutiny of practice and delivered using skilled feedback across the professional system, which is informed by strong values of openness, transparency, honesty and of never setting out to harm others, whether fellow professionals or children and families. Find a link to the Quality Assurance Framework here.