Local Safeguarding Children Boards

Local Safeguarding Children Boards: A Review of Progess (June 2008)

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.

For more information, read the Children Act 2004: guidance.

We have now produced a list of the chairs of local safeguarding children boards which is available for you to download below.

Recent documents

LSCB rule-change discussion paper 28/04/2008

List of the Chairs of Local Safeguarding Children Boards

Documents

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 LSCBs, which took place at the National Motorcycle Museum on 13 March 2007.

Safeguarding Disabled Children - a resource for Local Safeguarding Children Boards

Safeguarding Children in whom illness is fabricated or induced