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About Children’s MARS Board
Our ambition is for children to thrive in their families, achieve in their schools and flourish in their communities.
The Children’s MARS Board brings together the safeguarding partners, and other relevant officers, to oversee, innovate and develop the Children’s MARS arrangements and seek assurance regarding the standard of local implementation across the safeguarding system and to ensure children, young people and families are resilient and safeguarded.
The Children’s MARS Board Terms of Reference provides further detail regarding the board arrangements.
Set in the context of our One Family Approach and the underpinning practice model, our Children’s Multi-Agency Safeguarding and Resilience (MARS) Local Arrangements place children, young people, families and communities at the heart of our early help and safeguarding system. There is strong evidence of how the One Family Approach is embedded across our local arrangements and across the partnership, we remain committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and families via the fewest best interventions, leading to whole family turnaround. As safeguarding partners, we are proud to acknowledge and celebrate the positive outcomes achieved and the strength of partnership working.
Our Family Help Offer closely aligns with the ambitions and values of our One Family Approach and our Local Arrangements, has a focus on the importance of bringing services together around families to deliver whole family working and it emphasises the importance of early help in increasing the likelihood of good outcomes for children and families.
The Children’s Multi-Agency Resilience and Safeguarding Board is a statutory function, as outlined within the Statutory Framework ‘Working Together’.
The government published Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023: A Guide to Multi-Agency working to help, protect and promote the welfare of children on 15th December 2023. This sets out what organisations and agencies who have functions relating to children must and should do to help, protect and promote the welfare of all children and young people under the age of 18 in England. You can also find an illustrated guide, designed for practitioners to share and use with children, young people and their families to explain how organisations work together to safeguard children here.
The purpose of multi-agency safeguarding arrangements is to ensure that, at a local level, organisations and agencies are clear about how they will work together to safeguard children and promote their welfare.
