Decision details

The Group Director, Community and Children’s Services provided Members with an update on the progress made in respect of the Council’s corporate safeguarding arrangements in the last 12 months. Reference was made to the Wales Audit Office review conducted in 2019 which had found that the Council had met, or partially met, most of the previous recommendations and proposals for improvement. However, the Group Director added that some further proposals for improvement were made to strengthen aspects of the Council’s Corporate Safeguarding arrangements and details of the six proposals were provided.

The Group Director confirmed that theCouncilcontinuesto makeprogressindeliveringits CorporateSafeguarding responsibilitiesas evidencedby theinformationprovidedwithin his reportandtheongoing natureof theactions beingdelivered.

The Deputy Leader spoke of the work of the Council to ensure its responsibilities for Corporate Safeguarding were adhered to and spoke of the partnership work with the Cwm Taf Morgannwg Safeguarding Board, which is the multi-agency statutory partnership that has the responsibility for safeguarding across the region.

With the agreement of the Leader, County Borough Councillor P Jarman spoke on this item.  On response to the points raised by Councillor Jarman the Group Director referenced the work being undertaken in respect of the draft suicide prevention strategy.

It was RESOLVED:

1.    To review the progress made against the improvement actions to support Corporate Safeguarding requirements and to request any further information on any areas where this is deemed insufficient.