Sefton Bespoke Support Project

Sefton’s partnership requested support from the TCE programme to create a performance framework that would improve the data collation and analysis that would enable Sefton’s safeguarding partners to respond more effectively to child exploitation and extra-familial harm concerns.

Within Sefton, there is no specialist child exploitation and extra-familial harm teams or services, and responsibility is cascaded across multiple agencies, meaning there is no central data source currently.

The partnership recognised that there was an opportunity to reflect on current data processes and understand how they could work more cohesively to establish the strategic picture of child criminal exploitation and extra-familial harm across Sefton. The partnership also noted that the quantitative data available to them did not reflect the qualitative information understood in the local area.