BSCP’s Business Improvement Plan 2025-27: Our vision for the next two years
In May, BSCP published our Business Improvement Plan 2025-27, which sets out our four strategic priorities and key actions to be undertaken over the next two years. The priorities are agreed upon by our Lead Safeguarding Partners.
The priorities are as follows:
Priority 1: Working together more effectively
Implementing national reforms to strengthen multi-agency practice to support families and safeguard children.
Priority 2: Voice of the Child & Family
Ensuring children and parents/carers views are central to our multi-agency practice and engaging children and families with lived experience to improve our multi-agency safeguarding arrangements.
Priority 3: Children Out of Sight
Developing multi-agency pathways to better support and safeguard children who are at risk of, or who have become, out of sight to services.
Priority 4: Harm Outside the Home
Improving earlier identification and responses to children at risk of, or who are engaged in, serious youth violence, or who are being criminally and/or sexually exploited.
The Two-Year Delivery Plan for the implementation of these priorities is included in the Business Improvement Plan, and will be overseen by the BSCP Executive Board. Annually, the Lead Safeguarding Partners will reflect on progress, performance, and take account of emerging themes to refocus partnership activity on delivering the priorities, and will formally publish a Yearly Report detailing progress.
“In determining the four key priorities, we have reflected on the progress and challenges we have faced during the last two years. We have consulted a wide range of partners to help identify and agree the key areas where we will focus improving partnership intervention over the next two years, to further strengthen our collaborative working arrangements to safeguard and protect children and young people across the city.” – Lead Safeguarding Partners