The inspection team, including representatives from Ofsted and health watchdog the Care Quality Commission, welcomed the move away from safeguarding arrangements with neighbouring areas to a place-based system focused on children in Blackpool.
This has enabled social care, health and police services to “become much more responsive to the very high levels of need and risk with the local population and children of Blackpool”, according to the inspection report on Blackpool Local Safeguarding Partnership.
Action taken includes development of “high-quality” family support hubs offering universal and targeted support in local communities that are “easily accessible for children and their families”.
The approach has also resulted in “better collaboration” with schools to offer child protection training. This has improved the "quality and timeliness of the referrals” being made to support services.
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