Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) Damien Cole - Integrated Working Strategic Lead, Children’s Services Angela Allgood – MASH Regional Advisor, Met Police
Background • Police lead initiative • Local Authority delivery • Purpose – To Improve the way that local safeguarding partnerships deal with child protection referrals, bringing a range of partners together into a single multi-agency safeguarding hub to share information quickly and efficiently.
National Picture • • MASH’s being implemented across England Pan London MASH Operational Steering Group 11/32 London LA’s currently ‘live’ (as of June ‘ 13). Learning todate - Positives/Negatives (Police perspective)
Evolution MASH Triage Duty
Local implementation approach • 3 phases of implementation – start June 2013 – Official launch October 2013 • • Pathways in and out of MASH + documentation Stakeholder engagement Procurement of a MASH IT system Training and communication
Local implementation todate • Premises secured, MASH office designed. • Pre-MASH screening pathway designed and implemented – June 2013 • Co located partners identified and some in place • Single Points of Contact (SPOC) identified
MASH participation Co located partners (confirmed): - Social Care MASH officers - Police Public Protection Desk - Police Missing Persons Officer - Health representative - Education/Targeted Support Liaison - Probation
MASH participation SPOC’s (confirmed): - Housing - Youth Offending Service - IDSVAS (Domestic Violence service) - Adult Mental Health - Neighbourhood Crime Reduction
Information Sharing - security Pre-MASH screening (all contacts) MASH Interface with Tier 2 or Tier 3 – statutory assessment
Areas to be aware of • Purpose and impact of a MASH – Comprehensive multi agency risk assessment – Reactive, not preventative – Intelligence led decision making – Cases will step up into Social Care based on more information/assessment. – Cases will be safely stepped down to Tier 1&2, with more information/assessment.
Areas to be aware of cont. • Performance around timeliness of assessments • Reduction in cases ‘bouncing’ up and down across Tier 1/2 and 3. • Reduction in the number of Statutory Assessments not progressing to Ci. N/CP/LAC etc. • Greater partnership working • Greater partnership awareness of thresholds
Areas to be aware of cont. . • Will intro of MASH increase the number of referral? • Partnership buy in. • Information sharing and recording.
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