About Tameside Safeguarding Children Partnership

Where we want to ensure that children and young people feel safe, heard and cared for.

Tameside Safeguarding Children Partnership is responsible for making sure that children and young people in Tameside get the safeguarding and care they need to feel heard and safe.

Tameside Safeguarding Children Partnership (TSCP) working for you to:

• Safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people
• Improve outcomes for children and young people
• Identify and analysis emerging safeguarding risks
• Promote organisations to be reflective and continuously work to improve services for children and young people and their families
• Deliver services in the right way and at the right time so that children are safe
• Ensure information is shared and learning is promoted and embedded

TSCP Business unit supports the work of the partnership by developing, delivering and monitoring:

• Multi-agency safeguarding policies and procedures
• Multi-agency safeguarding training
• Learning, sharing and embedding systems and practices that improve safeguarding
• Hold organisations to account
• Quality assures safeguarding systems and practices

The partnership includes Tameside Council, Greater Manchester Police and ICB Glossop and Tameside.

The local statutory safeguarding partners are:

• Local Authority (Tameside MBC)
• Integrated Care Board (NHS Greater Manchester)
• Police (Greater Manchester Police - GMP)

Through the partnership we aim to deliver a child-centred approach to safeguarding by listening, empowering and providing services that are effective, professional and supportive. The partners will work collaboratively to provide leadership and challenge when needed and learn from reviews to improve when needed.

Safeguarding is everyone's responsibility to work together to ensure that all children and young people are safe and feel safe within their homes, schools and communities.

In December 2023, the updated Working Together to Safeguard Children was published, so all agencies understand and work together to help protect and promote the welfare of children. There are three local safeguarding statutory partners in Tameside (safeguarding partners) who are jointly responsible for the partnership arrangements: Greater Manchester Police, Integrated Care Boards (ICB) and the Local Authority. The Tameside Safeguarding Childrens Partnership (TSCP) provides the arrangements under which the Safeguarding Partners and relevant agencies work together to coordinate their services to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in in Tameside.

The Tameside Safeguarding Children Partnership works towards two key principles:

• To place the welfare and safety of children at the heart of everything we do. We will ensure that the impact on children and families will inform every conversation we have, every piece of work we do, every decision we take and every change we make.
• To challenge ourselves and each other, whilst equally taking a shared responsibility approach to improvement. As Tameside works to become 'brilliant at basics', we challenge, support and define how we work as a partnership.

The strength of partnership working, is built upon the safeguarding partners working collaboratively together with all other relevant agencies and services in Tameside who come into contact with children and families.

The relevant agencies for the TSCP arrangements are named as:

• All mainstream, special, independent and free schools
• All early year’s settings
• Post-16 education and training providers
• Tameside and Glossop Hospital Trust
• GP Practices
• Greater Manchester Police
• NHS Trust – Ambulance Service
• Diocese and other faith organisations
• Voluntary and community organisations
• Probation Trust
• Sports clubs

At the heart of the arrangements is a commitment from all agencies to work together to keep children safe in Tameside and to continuously improve and learn how to best do this.

Contact Us

TSCP is not the appropriate contact if you have a safeguarding concern about a child in Tameside.

If you are worried about a child and need to speak to someone about their safety and wellbeing, please visit Worried about a child? on Tameside MBC for further guidance.

If you have a query, comment or would like to raise an issue about the work TSCP undertakes, the Business Unit can be reached via:

Email: tscp@tameside.gov.uk

General enquiries tel: 0161 342 4348

If you are concerned about an adult, please visit Tameside Adult Services on Tameside MBC