About Salford Safeguarding Children Board
SSCB is a multi-agency forum that holds shared responsibility in promoting and safeguarding the children of Salford. Keeping children safe from abuse or neglect, ensuring they grow up in an environment of safe and effective care, enabling them to have optimum life chances is everyone’s business.
SSCB has a statutory responsibility to ensure this principle is embedded in the work of each key agency. SSCB members are senior representatives of key statutory agencies and others in Governance roles who have sufficient understanding and knowledge of safeguarding and welfare concerns to commit to agreed actions of their staff groups. SSCB allows for clear lines of accountability.
In achieving the above, SSCB has in the first instance focused on their core functions as set out within Working Together (3.17 – 3.45).
- Develop policies and procedures for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children
- Focus on communication and raising awareness within communities and organisation of their role and responsibilities to safeguard and promote the welfare of children
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the board and its partners in exercising their legal duties
- Participate in local planning and commissioning of services to ensure that the promotion of the welfare and safeguarding of children is taken into account.
- Develop a process of overview and monitoring of information about child deaths (inclusive of Serious Case Reviews) to inform any concerns affecting child safety and the welfare of children in Salford. To ensure a co-ordinated response from SSCB and their partners.
- To undertake Serious Case Reviews where the abuse or neglect of a child is known or suspected and a child has been seriously harmed or died, and there has been cause for concern as to how relevant agencies have worked together.
Within these function there are specific areas of focus:
- To ensure all agencies working with children or in services impacting on the welfare of children have safe recruitment practices.
- To provide an analysis and overview of Serious Case Reviews, ensuring lessons learned are devised into action plans and incorporated into agencies practice. Promoting safeguarding as a shared responsibility within agencies in Salford.
- To influence the local planning and commissioning of children’s services or services impacting on children’s welfare and safety and ensure safeguarding and the promotion of children’s welfare is taken into account.
- To monitor the effectiveness of what is done in relation to safeguarding and promotion of children’s welfare by partner agencies individually and collectively.
This page was last updated on 3 October 2009
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