Toggle navigation. Legislation and LSCBs. Section 14 of the Children Act sets out the objectives of LSCBs, which are: to coordinate what is done by each person or body represented on the Board for the purposes of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in the area; and to ensure the effectiveness of what is done by each such person or body for those purposes. Our Partners:. This includes a designated doctor and nurse, the Director of Public Health, Principal Child and Family Social Worker and the voluntary and community sector.
Lay members will operate as full members of the LSCB, participating as appropriate on the Board itself and on relevant committees. A local authority may pay lay members. In practice this means routinely attending meetings as an observer and receiving all its written reports. In order to provide effective scrutiny, the LSCB should be independent.
It should not be subordinate to, nor subsumed within, other local structures. All LSCB Chairs should have access to training and development opportunities, including peer networking. The Chair must publish an annual report on the effectiveness of child safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in the local area this is a statutory requirement under Section 14A of the Children Act The report should be submitted to the Chief Executive, Leader of the Council, the local police and crime commissioner and the Chair of the health and wellbeing board.
The report should provide a rigorous and transparent assessment of the performance and effectiveness of local services. It should identify areas of weakness, the causes of those weaknesses and the action being taken to address them as well as other proposals for action.
The report should include lessons from reviews undertaken within the reporting period see Chapter 4: Learning and Improvement Framework and Chapter 5: Child Death Reviews of Working Together Members should share the financial responsibility for the LSCB in such a way that a disproportionate burden does not fall on a small number of partner agencies.
All rights reserved. Web design and build by Fat Media. How can a Social Worker help you? Statutory Objectives and Functions of LSCBs Section 14 of the Children Act sets out the objectives of LSCBs, which are: To coordinate what is done by each person or body represented on the Board for the purposes of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in the area; and To ensure the effectiveness of what is done by each such person or body for those purposes. Scope of the Role In order to fulfil its statutory function under Regulation 5 an LSCB should use data and, as a minimum, should: Asses the effectiveness of the help being provided to children and families, including early help; Assess whether LSCB partners are fulfilling their statutory obligations set out in Chapter 2: Organisational Responsibilities of Working Together ; Quality assure practice, including through joint audits of case files involving practitioners and identifying lessons to be learned; and Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of training, including multi-agency training, to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
Section defines an adult at risk as being anyone 18 years of age or older who is:. Show menu. English Cymraeg. Three broad areas of activity are identified: activity that aims to identify and prevent maltreatment or impairment to health and development pro-active work, which targets particular groups of vulnerable children and young people responsive work to protect children who are suffering, or at risk of suffering harm The core business of the LSCB is to ensure there is collective accountability for those children and young people that are the subject of child protection processes under Section 47 of the Children Act
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