The Board noted:
(i) The Barking and Dagenham Safeguarding Children Board Annual Report 2014/15 was a partnership report and the strength of the partnership was better reflected in the report this year than previously;
(ii) The maturity of the partnership was clearly underpinning the five priorities, the capacity to learn from Case Reviews, the sharing of information and challenge and joint work on aspects such as prevent and Child Sexual Exploitation; and
(iii) Partners were recognising of the need to improve prevention and early intervention support across the partnership to reduce families going into crisis and to drive down the need for safeguarding and children being taken into care.