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Name of Partner Agency
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Partnership NHS Trust.
Brief Overview of Agency
The Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Partnership NHS Trust is the UK’s largest
provider of community health and adult social care services and is responsible for
adult social and community healthcare within Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent. The
Partnership is the part of the NHS that provides health and care services in your
community including community hospitals, health centers, nursing homes, schools,
prisons and in your own home. Our teams include district nurses, occupational
therapists, dental services, school nurses, social workers, dental services,
physiotherapists, sexual health services, health visitors and many more, who all work
together to ensure you receive care close to or in your own homes instead of hospital
or a residential home, helping you stay independent. The maps show the large
geographical area we cover.
Who is the Senior Safeguarding Lead within your agency? (The portfolio holder)
Director of Nursing and Quality - Siobhan Heafield.
Who are the Designated Safeguarding / Child Protection Leads within your
agency?
Head of Safeguarding Children - Angela Jervis.
How can staff contact them?
The Safeguarding Team is divided into two divisions - North and South.
The North Division covers Stoke on Trent and North Staffordshire.
North Division - Safeguarding Children Team, The Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub,
Staffordshire Police, PO Box 3167, Stafford, ST16 9JZ. Telephone Number: 01785
895630
The South Division covers South Staffordshire.
South Division - Safeguarding Children Team, Springfield’s Health and Wellbeing
Centre, Off Lovett Court, Rugeley, Staffordshire, WS15 2FH. Telephone No: 01889
571404
Agency showcase of how safeguarding children is driven forward within your
agency
Safeguarding Children is part of Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Partnership NHS
Trust mandatory and statutory training for all employees of the trust. This is carried
out every 3 years. Training for frontline staff who works predominantly with children is
also mandatory both as a single agency and as a multiagency to ensure all our staff
have the expertise to protect children.
There is a weekly high-level safeguarding report to Executives on a Monday with all
high-level cases for discussion.
The weekly communication brief ‘The Word’ contains relevant articles for all staff in
relation to safeguarding children.
The Trust supports health representation on two Local Safeguarding Children
Boards, two Executive Boards and all the sub-groups of the two Local Safeguarding
Children’s Boards.
The Safeguarding Team provide support supervision and training for all designations
of staff.
All legal work related to children is coordinated through the Safeguarding Teams.
Reports are received at a number of meetings that include Governance, Operational,
Safeguarding Committees and Board.
Evidence of the impact – (the ‘so what’ factor)
Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent NHS Partnership Trust through a number of NHS
Reforms has continued to ensure the safeguarding of children remains a focal point
within the organisation.
We have committed ALL our workforce to protect the most vulnerable through
education, training and awareness sessions. We remain a strong partner in tackling
child abuse across the large geographical area.
Early intervention work and referral to other agency help reduce the trauma children
experience.
Although referral figures both for safeguarding and looked after children continue to
raise the expertise of frontline staff of early detection helps reduce the impact on the
health and wellbeing of the children and young people.
The organisation is committed to meeting all the old and new challenges around
safeguarding children with its commitment and partnership working with all the
statutory and voluntary agencies.