Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub - Find a freedom of information request

1. Do you have a Multi-agency safeguarding hub or similar arrangement in which children's social care departments work alongside the Police, Health, Education and other partners to share information and make decisions about child safeguarding?

2. If so when was this established?

3. Are staff from the different agencies co-located?

4. If staff are co-located when did this occur?

5. For each year ending 31st March from 1st April 2007 to 2023 please provide:

a) The number of strategy meetings held

b) The number of children who have been the subject of a strategy meeting

Please provide the information for question five in an Excel spreadsheet.

1) Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) has a Childrens Services Integrated Front Door that receives contacts into Social Care and serves as the point to access Early Help services. Decision making about threshold for Social Care is made by qualified and experienced social workers in the Childrens Social Care screening team. This is not a multiagency front door.

2) LCC do not have a MASH.

3) No

4) N/A

5) Please see below.