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This service will provide a quality assurance and reviewing service across differing levels of need to drive strengths-based practice and culture. Quality Assurance Reviewing Officers (QARO’s) ensure that statutory and regulatory safeguarding requirements are met for independent reviewing for children in care, child protection and fostering reviewing functions and go beyond that to focus on the delivery and improvement of services for Children, young people and their Families through the provision of high-quality independent oversight of practice, and effective partnership working with all those involved with the child.

The service will provide independent, professional support and challenge and be accountable for service improvement, ensuring quality assurance of practice across the whole service. The service will champion a child’s right to family life.

The primary role of a QARO is to ensure that children are central to the assessment of their needs and any plans to support them. They will ensure that the voice of the child or young person is heard, that children are a central focus in decision making and that their rights and responsibilities are being championed.
QAROs will organise and facilitate a range of meetings to meet statutory obligations under the Children Act 1989 and Working Together 2023, focusing on building relationships; ensuring effective participation and taking a strengths based approach.

QAROs will support and challenge operational practice to ensure outcomes for children are achieved.

As an innovative and reflective leader, they will need to be able to demonstrate:

• a strong value base that informs their work with individuals, carers, families and partner organisations

• a relentless commitment to quality - and to be able to talk about what good practice 'looks like'

• a capacity for honest reflection and openness to learning;

• Ability to establish professional, effective working relationships with a range of partners/colleagues, individuals, families and their carers