Decision details

The Committee received a presentation which provided details of the outcome from the recent Somerset Joint Targeted Area Inspection (JTAI) – serious youth violence.

In May, the Care Quality Commission, His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services, Ofsted and His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation jointly inspected the Somerset area’s multi-agency response to children over 10, who are at risk of, or affected by, serious youth violence in the county. The report from the inspection, in the form of an ungraded letter was published on 18 July 2024 – JTAI of Somerset.

The Committee noted the headline findings, covering governance and multi-agency safeguarding practice.

The Safer Somerset Partnership and the Safeguarding Children’s Partnership are already collating action plans from all relevant organisations and strategically on behalf of each Partnership to improve partnership working in reducing serious youth violence and criminal exploitation in Somerset. These plans will be submitted to Ofsted by the Chair of the Safeguarding Children’s Partnership, on behalf of the 3 Lead Safeguarding Partners by 25^th October 2024.  (This is the date set by the Inspectorates) .

Noted that the multi- agency action plan will be considered at the next meeting of the Committee.

The multi-agency plans will also be overseen and tested for effectiveness via the Integrated Care System Children and Families’ Board, which meets every 2 months.