About the Safeguarding Board

Worcestershire Safeguarding Children Board ensuring that:

"Children and young people in Worcestershire receive the right services at the right time to feel safe and be protected from harm and neglect."

Our Priorities Are:

• Reducing the impact of domestic abuse, parental mental ill health and substance misuse on children and their families
• Ensuring that information is shared promptly and appropriately to strengthen effective safeguarding services

What is safeguarding?

Safeguarding is more than just protecting children and young people. It is also preventing them from coming to any harm and promoting their well-being. The Government consulted with children and families to find out what mattered most to children. The five outcomes which were identified are:

• Being healthy: enjoying good physical and mental health and living a healthy lifestyle
• Staying safe: being protected from harm and neglect
• Enjoying and achieving: getting the most out of life and developing the skills for adulthood
• Making a positive contribution: being involved with the community and society and not engaging in anti-social or offending behaviour
• Economic well-being: not being prevented by economic disadvantage from achieving their full potential in life.

What is the safeguarding children board?

The Worcestershire Safeguarding Children Board (WSCB) is a partnership of all the agencies that have safeguarding responsibilities, including: Children's Services, Health services, Police, Probation, District Councils, and voluntary and community organisations. These agencies are represented on the WSCB by their Chief Executives or senior managers, who ensure that safeguarding is promoted throughout their agency. View a full list of Board members.

What does the safeguarding board do?

The WSCB has a wide range of responsibilities, including the development and review of procedures to protect children; the provision of training for staff and volunteers who work with children; reviewing the death of all children to find out what lessons can be learnt to safeguard other children and raising public awareness of safeguarding.

Inter-Agency working is at the heart of safeguarding and protecting children and the WSCB works to ensure that all the agencies communicate with one another in the interests of the child.

This page was last reviewed 20 March 2013 at 15:20.
The page is next due for review 16 September 2014.