Local Safeguarding Children Boards
Local
Safeguarding Children Boards National Event Documentary (March 2007)
This documentary provides a short overview of the day of the first national
event focusing on local safeguarding children boards, which took place at
the National Motorcycle Museum on 13 March 2007.
Children can only be safeguarded properly if the key agencies work effectively together. Local safeguarding children boards (LSCBs) are designed to help ensure that this happens. They put the former area child protection committees (ACPCs) on a statutory footing.
The core membership of LSCBs is set out in the Children Act 2004, and includes local authorities, health bodies, the police and others. The objective of LSCBs is to coordinate and to ensure the effectiveness of their member agencies in safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
The statutory regulations, which came into force on 1 April 2006, are available from the OPSI website.
Guidance on LSCBs
Guidance on LSCBs has now been published, covering their role and operation, including their relationship to other children's trust arrangements.
Click to download the Local Safeguarding Children Board Guidance.
Working Together
The LSCBs guidance forms chapter 3 of the revised version of
Working Together to Safeguard Children, which is the core guidance on how
agencies should cooperate in child protection and in safeguarding and promoting
the welfare of children.
Working Together is part of an interlocking set of guidance supporting the
Children Act 2004.
Click to read more about the Children
Act 2004: guidance or read more about Working
Together.
We have now produced a list of the chairs of local safeguarding children boards which is available for you to download below.
Recent documents
List
of the Chairs of Local Safeguarding Children Boards
Safeguarding
Disabled Children - a resource for local safeguarding children boards
Documents
Local
Safeguarding Children Board Guidance
Draft
version of Local Safeguarding Children Board guidance offered for
consultation
Letter
sent to ACPCs and local authorities to support transition to LSCBs
Local
Safeguarding Children Boards Regulations 2006
This page was last updated on 27 February 2008
