This page will tell you about LSCBs what role they play in keeping children and young people safe.
Children can only be kept safe properly if the key agencies (local authorities, police, health bodies and others) work well together.
Local safeguarding children boards (LSCBs) help make sure that this happens.
Working Together to Safeguard Children (HM Government, 2010) states:
“Organisations in the voluntary sector and private sectors that work with children need to have the arrangements…in place in the same way as organisations in the public sector, and need to work effectively with local safeguarding children's boards.”
The key things that the document refers to are:
- clear priorities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children are explicitly stated in strategic policy documents
- a clear commitment by senior management to the importance of safeguarding
- clear lines of accountability for managing safeguarding recruitment procedures that take safeguarding into account
- procedures for dealing with allegations of abuse against workers
- staff training on safeguarding
- having a child protection policy
- arrangements for information sharing
- a culture of listening to and engaging children
- appropriate whistle blowing procedures.
We support LSCBs in promoting and developing safeguarding within the third sector. Youll find case examples of LSCB initiatives and other useful resources and materials on this website.
Exchange
Working together to keep children safe. A regular National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) newsletter for LSCBs.
NSPCC inform
The UK's only free, online specialised child protection resource. For practitioners, researchers, trainers, policy makers and other professionals working to safeguard children.
Other sources of information
Every Child Matters