MACE Project Update
Substantial investment in academic and research activities related to adolescent safeguarding, emphasizing cultural and system changes over bureaucratic structures. Progress has been made in operational practices, but embedding impact understanding remains a priority. The establishment of MACE Chairs Network and agreements on Child Exploitation Protocols mark significant achievements, enhancing collaboration across Local Authority and Police boundaries.
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MACE Project Update 20thSeptember 2023
STAKEHOLDER FORUMS Safeguarding Executive MACE PROJECT GOVERNANCE ALDCS STAKEHOLDERS CSP Managers LASOB (Project Board) CSP Scrutineers MOPAC Practice Leaders Florence Kroll LASOB Chair and Sponsor VRU Ben Byrne LIIA Iain Keating Met Police Iain Keating London Designated Professionals Network DfE Strategic Education Leaders London ST Project Delivery Group Amana Gordon (Chair) Including LASOB Members Home Office London Community Safety Leads London Housing Directors Group Voluntary Sector RIP/Durham/TCE/Children s Society YOS Heads Safeguarding exploited young people who move across local authority boundaries Using data to understand practice and improve outcomes Police Exploitation Group Tools and templates for effective practice Protocol implementation and compliance NHS/ICBs MACE Chairs Network YJB/MoJ London Safeguarding Editorial Board
Substantial investment in academic and research activity related to adolescent safeguarding Considerable emphasis on cultural and system change, less with bureaucratic structures and arrangements that operationalise day to day safeguarding work Context Scale of operations across London, subject to many political and geographical influences operates against consistency of practice Significant progress made but much to do to improve embedding and understanding of impact
Establishment of MACE Chairs Network Content, purpose and ownership of next Child Exploitation Protocol agreed Links with London Safeguarding Children Procedures Editorial Board Achievements Improved activity across Local Authority and Police boundaries
Agreement and dissemination of recommended forms and templates What Was a Struggle Understanding of NHS structures and remits Task and Finish Group members attempting to balance participation with the day job
Promising Work Data
Resource the development and production of the next version of the protocol, ensuring that it is a well-written, multi-agency document that is widely used and linked to the Adolescent Safeguarding Handbook Agree a dataset and resource the work to implement it via Newham or another project. This should include police and local authority data. How We Want to Proceed Develop an agreed set of indicators for monitoring by LASOB, with the purpose of pan-London oversight being agreed Establish whether VRU and/or MOPAC have any interest in supporting individual local authority and police safeguarding activity and MACE improvement Pursue agreed NHS involvement through reference group and LSCPs