The safety of children in Medway is our priority and everybody’s responsibility.

It is important that professionals and organisations protecting children review the quality of their services and learn from their own practice and that of others. 

Good practice should be shared so that there is a growing understanding of what works well. When things go wrong there needs to be a thorough and unbiased analysis of what happened and why, so important lessons can be learnt and services improved to reduce the risk of future harm to children.

To ensure that children are safeguarded properly by agencies working effectively together, the MSCP supports a “Partnership practice alerts” and “Referrals for case review” process. 

These processes support the MSCP in celebrating good practice, challenging practice outside of expected standards and procedures and to learn from experiences. 

Partnership practice alert 

A Partnership Practice Alert supports professionals to raise concerns to the Medway Safeguarding Children Partnership (MSCP) that are not case related but if left unaddressed may risk the safeguarding and welfare of children going forward.  The Strengthening professional Practice group members to consider the alerts and respond on behalf of their agency.  The Strengthening Professional Practice group will be responsible for the oversight of any actions as a result of the alert. 

The partnership practice alert referral forms part of the Professional Challenge and Escalation Policy.

Referral for case review/audit (including Local Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews.

You can make a referral for consideration for a case review/audit (including Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review) by completing our MSCP Referrals form.