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Safeguarding Partnership Boards: Annual Report 2013 & Priorities and Business Plan 2014 - 2015

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A decision made 8 August 2014:

Decision Reference:   MD-C-2014-0136

Decision Summary Title :

Safeguarding Partnership Boards: Annual Report 2013 & Priorities and Business Plan 2014-2015

Date of Decision Summary:

1st August 2014

Decision Summary Author:

 

Assistant Director, Social Policy

Decision Summary:

Public or Exempt?

Public

Type of Report:

Oral or Written?

Written

Person Giving

Oral Report:

N/A

Written Report

Title :

Safeguarding Partnership Board: Annual Report 2013 & Priorities and Business Plan 2014-2015

Date of Written Report:

1st August 2014

Written Report Author:

Independent Safeguarding Chair

Written Report :

Public or Exempt?

Public

Subject:

Safeguarding Partnership Boards: Annual Report 2013 & Priorities and Business Plan 2014-2015;  presentation to the States

Decision(s):

The Chief Minister. having formally received the Safeguarding Partnership Board’s Annual Report 2013 & Priorities and Business Plan 2014-2015, decided that it should be presented to the States as an ‘R’ at the earliest opportunity.

Reason(s) for Decision:

Jersey’s Independent Safeguarding Chair is required to produce an Annual Report providing information about the work of the Boards in the preceding year, plus future priorities. The report also provides an overview of issues relating to the safeguarding of children and adults in Jersey.

 

The report has been formally received by the Children’s Policy Group, the Adults Policy Group and the Chief Minister, who lays it before the States for information, prior to publication by the Independent Safeguarding Chair.

Resource Implications:

There are no resource implications.

Action required:

Forward the Report to the Publications Editor, States Greffe and request the Greffier of the States to arrange for it to be presented to the States as soon as practicable.

Signature: 

 

 

Position:  Chief Minister

Date Signed:

 

 

Date of Decision (If different from Date Signed):

 

FRIDAY 8TH AUGUST 2014

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