Local safeguarding
children boards (LSCBs) are the key statutory mechanism for
agreeing how the relevant organisations in each local area will
cooperate to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, and for
ensuring the effectiveness of what they do.
The scope of the
LSCB role falls into three categories:
1. They
engage in activities that safeguard all children and aim to
identify and prevent maltreatment, or impairment of health or
development, and to ensure that children are growing up in
circumstances consistent with safe and effective care
2. They
lead and coordinate proactive work that aims to target particular
groups; and
3. They
lead and co-ordinate arrangements for responsive work to protect
children who are suffering, or likely to suffer, significant
harm.
This is a Multi Agency partnership with
Membership of the LSCB made up of senior
managers from different services and agencies in a local area,
including Health, Police, Probation, Local Authority, and Voluntary
Sector.