Quality Assurance and Audit (QAA) group
An important element in assuring local practice is the OSCBs role in collating feedback from front line practitioners. There is a feedback form on the front page of the website for individuals or groups to use to input their comments into further overviews of practice
Chair
The current Chair is Tan Lea
Section 11
Section 11 compliance is a mandatory requirement for most organisations involved with children and young people.
Improving the way key people and bodies safeguard and promote the welfare of children is crucial to improving outcomes for children. Section 11 of the Children Act 2004, places a duty on key persons and bodies to make arrangements to ensure that in discharging their functions they have regard to the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
The OSCB is committed to ensuring that all partner agencies can demonstrate compliance with these standards and to that end undertake annual S11 compliance audits, which are then followed up by audit panel meetings with a number individual agencies to discuss the submitted self assessment form.
The Board is also committed to ensuring that those organisations who are commissioned by Board agencies to provide services on their behalf also ensure that they have regard to the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people. The OSCB has therefore worked with the Local Authority and PCT commissioners to develop a checklist and advice which can be used by the Private, Voluntary or Independent sector to work towards compliance.
Further advice can be found on the Commissioning page.
Documents
OSCB Quality Assurance Framework Requirements (.pdf format, 163Kb) - The purpose of a quality assurance framework is to detail how an agency’s monitoring, auditing and benchmarking activities in relation to the Quality of Safeguarding work link together and assist in improving safeguarding practice. OSCB have agreed upon this 10 point guide in relation to the requirements for agencies QA Frameworks.
Developing a Quality Assurance Framework (.pdf format, 651Kb) - A Local Government Improvement and Development document on how to develop a Quality Assurance Framework
Practice Overview Report - January 2011 (.pdf format, 71.6Kb) - An overview of front line child protection practice in Oxfordshire, bringing together information from a number of sources.
Practice Assurance Strategy - 2011-2016 (.pdf format, 15.4Kb)
