Our 2024/25 Annual Report
Every September, the BSCP are required to publish our Annual Report. This year’s report evaluates progress on the second year of our Business Improvement Plan 2023-25.
The report is comprised of seven key sections:
- Our Shared Ambition, Governance, Leadership and Accountability Arrangements
- Local Context and Key Facts about Birmingham
- The Effectiveness of Safeguarding Arrangements
- Learning and Development Framework
- Learning from Quality Assurance and Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews
- Funding and Business Support Unit
- Conclusions and Looking Forward
The report covers the period 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025. It outlines the effectiveness of multi-agency safeguarding arrangements, with a specific focus on our four strategic priority areas as detailed in our Business Improvement Plan 2023-25: addressing childhood neglect, responding to domestic abuse, supporting children invisible to services, and enhancing anti-discriminatory practices.
The report highlights achievements, challenges, and learning from audits, reviews, and training, and emphasises the importance of close collaboration, leadership, and accountability among safeguarding partners. We also look ahead to our priorities for the next two years, as detailed in our Business Improvement Plan 2025-27.
A word from our Designated Safeguarding Partners:
“We are extremely grateful to all our partners, frontline practitioners, volunteers, and those special individuals in our community for their steadfast commitment to keeping children safe, improving their life chances, and helping us achieve our shared ambition that Birmingham is a great place to grow up!”