Understand the specific responsibilities of middle managers in enabling and organisation to achieve its goals
The responsibility of middle management within the Child Abuse Investigation team is enabling the organisation to achieve its goal in the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, protecting children from abuse and neglect, preventing impairment of their health and development, and ensuring they are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care which is undertaken so as to enable children to have optimum life chances and enter adulthood successfully. Child protection is a part of safeguarding and promoting child welfare and refers to activity undertaken to protect specific children who are suffering or at risk of suffering from significant harm. The goals and objectives for the Child Abuse Investigation Command for the Metropolitan police involve working in partnership with other agencies are to:
1. Improve Investigation outcomes of all investigations by the Child Abuse Investigation teams 2. Manage all offenders of Investigations to reduce the number of outstanding suspects in the year 2013 - 14 by 10% 3. Improve vulnerable victims of care 4. Continue and improve Multi-Agency working 5. Achieve a sanction detection rate for all Child crime of 22% 6. Increase number of sanction detections for rape by 5% (47%) total 7. Increase number of sanction detections for serious sexual offences by 5% (25%) total 8. Achieve a sanction detection rate for violence with injury (actual bodily harm and above) of 34% 9. Attend all Initial case conferences for children on a child protection plan to 95% 10. Attend all review case conferences for children on a child protection plan to 50% 11. To have a strategy discussion 90% of the time with social services within 24 hours of a child case being known to