Aims and Objectives

2. Aims and Objectives

2.1 Our ambition is to actively engage people and inspire them to take action to prevent abuse and neglect.

2.2 Our objectives are:

• To promote the welfare of children and young people, adults, families and communities in North Yorkshire

• To prevent abuse, neglect, harm, exploitation and make people feel safe

• To ensure the ‘voice of the child’ the ‘voice of the adult’ and the ‘voice of the communities’ are heard and that their views are meaningfully taken into con- sideration

• To inform multi agency policy and practice

• To establish links with other strategic partnerships to develop a shared under- standing of the needs of children, young people and adults and encourage the sharing of good practice

• To seek opportunities to engage directly with children and young people, adults and communities

2.3 Where appropriate, we will jointly support national campaigns to raise awareness of safeguarding issues. This will help our local communities under- stand how to recognise different forms of abuse, neglect, harm and exploitation.

We will also work closely with our partners to co-ordinate our communications and make sure that consistent messaging is used across the county and where appropriate beyond.