Independent Scrutineer

**Job Description
INDEPENDENT SCRUTINEER FOR THE NEWHAM SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN PARTNERSHIP**

**DAY RATE OF £600 (PAYE or SELF EMPLOYED - no agencies)**

**20 DAYS PER YEAR - 3 YEAR TERM**

**Hybrid role - Newham Dockside E16 2QU**

**Closing date: 27/10/2024 at 23:59
**NEWHAM SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN PARTNERSHIP**

**JOIN US AND HELP BUILD A FAIRER NEWHAM**

We’re a vibrant, dynamic, culturally rich London Borough with a young population and limitless potential. We’re a challenging yet rewarding place to support children and families and we are steadfastly committed to our workforce being representative of the families that we work with. We are taking coordinated, meaningful and focused action to develop an inclusive culture because we believe this is at the heart of enabling diversity in all respects, including diversity of thought. We are taking positive actions to challenge all forms of discrimination and injustice to help make Newham a fairer and more equitable place for children and families to live, learn and thrive. The Newham Safeguarding Children Partnership is vital to these aims.

The NSCP is made up of an Executive partnership two with sub-committees; Performance and Quality and Assurance; & Safeguarding Children Practice Review Group. A Safeguarding Education Reference Group has recently been established. There is a joint group of adults and children’s safeguarding leads looking at all age exploitation across all services and under this group is a task & finish group focused on Modern Day Slavery.

You can find out more about the Partnership here:
**ABOUT THE JOB**

The role of independent scrutiny is to provide assurance, through monitoring and challenge, in judging the effectiveness and quality of multi-agency arrangements to safeguard and promote the welfare of all children in a local area.

The Independent Scrutineer will be required to work approximately 20 days per year for an initial 3-year term - this work will include:

- Attending participating in Performance and Quality Assurance sub group meetings.
- Reviewing the quality of Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews, ensuring that purposeful recommendations arise from such reviews and that agencies are held to account for the implementation of these recommendations until such time as they are fully completed.
- To review the Newham Safeguarding Children Partnership’s Annual Report and plan.
- To provide challenge and assurance in the development of the Newham Safeguarding Children Partnership (NSCP) and to aid in dispute resolution within the NSCP.
- To ensure that the voice of the child is at the heart of all aspects of scrutiny and that our commitment to challenge discrimination and disproportionality is at the forefront of work and decisions.

We politely ask that all applicants carefully read the **ROLE PROFILE **in full before applying.

**ABOUT YOU**

**We are looking for a senior leader with significant experience at a strategic level within a statutory, voluntary, or independent organisation in the context of safeguarding children and child protection services.**

You will have an academic or professional qualification in social or health care, education, police a legal discipline and be of sufficient professional standing to command respect within the Newham Safeguarding Children Partnership and beyond.

**It’s vital that applicants share**:

- Our HEART values (Honesty, Equality, Ambition, Respect, Together)
- Our commitment to tackling disproportionality wherever we find it
- Our commitment to building a Fairer Newham for all

Please read the person specification in the **ROLE PROFILE **carefully before applying.

**TO APPLY**

**Closing date: 27/10/2024 at 23:59**

**Interviews: Week beginning 11 **th **November**
- About Us
The London Borough of Newham is located only 5 miles east of London. It is well positioned with access to all major networks in London and the south east. It is well connected by public transport with, bus, tube and DLR. When the Crossrail service opens it will call at Custom House close to our council offices and also Stratford station and from there to central London. The London City Airport which serves major European cities is located at Royal Albert Dock. Newham has the youngest overall population in the country. It was one of the six host boroughs for the 2012 Summer Olympics and contains most of the Olympic Park including the London Stadium. It has a thriving arts quarter with the Theatre Royal Stratford East offering excellent entertainment for all the family. There is the University of East London which has two campuses in Newham, one in Stratford and another next to the regenerated Royal Albert Dock. It also has a large Westfield shopping Centre in Stratford which has all the major retailers there.- Newham has a large housing regeneration programme that will build over 1,000 new council homes by 2022._