We have developed the mentoring programme with the vision of:
- Supporting the availability of high-quality Chairs within the independent review Chair community, thus impacting positively upon the experience for families and the future safety of abuse victims.
- Providing local authorities with the opportunity to commission a well-supported Chair, with the assurance that their work throughout the Review period is actively supervised to ensure high quality.
- Providing local authorities and families with the assurance that the Chair can be backfilled by the mentor should the Chair experience a protracted period of absence.
The mentoring programme supports associates with:
- Providing details of a business operating framework, including data management requirements.
- Providing a framework for successful leadership of a review.
- Compiling and submission of tenders for contracts for associates as Chair supported within the mentoring programme.
- The selection interview process with the local authority, both the preparation for and attendance alongside.
- Performance of the Chair role responsibilities, engagement with the local authority, HMC, SIO, the panel and with the family and others.
- Regular 121 sessions to provide support to the associate and ensure a grasp of the detail of the review by both the associate and mentor.
- Regular well-being engagement with the associate.
- Quality assurance of the progression of the review.
- Quality assurance of the authoring of the report.
The programme is successfully completed when:
- The associate is assessed to be highly competent across the elements of the Chair’s role, and
- The associate considers their CV enables them to independently apply for tenders