Introduction

Introduction

1.1 North Yorkshire Safeguarding Children Partnership (SCP), Community Safety Partnership (CSP) and Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB) bring together agencies such as the local authority, police and health services from across North Yorkshire to ensure joined up approaches to safeguarding. We coordinate and ensure effective safeguarding and promote well-being and welfare of children, young people, adults and families and protect them from harm.

1.2 We are working together to ensure people who live, work, or visit North Yorkshire are aware of what ‘safeguarding’ means and have access to information that will help them make informed decisions and stay safe.

We want to listen to the views what people have to say to us about safeguarding whether this be feedback or sharing experiences.

The whole community needs to understand what abuse, exploitation, harm and neglect looks like as well as the roles they play in keeping people safe and promoting welfare. Safeguarding is everybody’s business.

1.3 The Partnerships and Board have developed this joint Engagement & Communication strategy to ensure that the work of both Partnerships and Board is effectively communicated to children, young people, adults, families, professionals and the wider community in North Yorkshire. It has also been developed to ensure the Partnerships and Board take the opportunity to listen to children, young people, adults, families, professionals and the wider com- munity in North Yorkshire

1.4 This strategy is endorsed by the SCP, CSP and SAB and monitored and evaluated by members of the Board / Executive of the respective Partnerships and Board.

All SCP, CSP and SAB Board / Executive, sub / working groups / Joint Coordinating Groups (JCGs) can refer engagement and communication opportunities to the respective Partnership and Board.

1.5 This strategy will outline the best methods to communicate messages that we have identified through engagement with our respective audiences.

The strategy also highlights the importance of listening to others and not only engaging to find out what they want to tell us but how they want to tell us and how people want us to show that we have listened

We also need to decide how we will ‘capture the voice’ of the communities we serve. It is important that we do this through meaningful engagement with children, young people, adults, families and communities in a way that is consistent and allows us to work together.