To provide senior strategic and operational management across defined areas of the services, taking a lead role in the development and implementation of services and strategies which promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people across the borough which is predominantly related to high risk statutory children’s social care services across a particular agreed area and specialism, while also providing professional cover for the full range: early help and intervention (including statutory responsibility for Children’s Centres) to reduce risk of escalation to targeted statutory services, children in need of protection, children looked after, those subject to Court proceedings and those young people involved in or on the periphery of the criminal justice system.
To be accountable for high-risk decisions in Children’s services, including out-of-hours/on-call.
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