Swindon LSCB

Safeguarding

Working Together 2010 states:"Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is defined as:

• protecting children from maltreatment;
• preventing impairment of children’s health or development and
• ensuring that children are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care and;
• undertaking that role so as to enable those children to have optimum life chances and to enter adulthood successfully."

Swindon LSCB carries out its safeguarding responsibilities:

• through the involvement of a wide range of local agencies in its Board, Management Group and sub-committees to ensure multi-agency co-operation.
• through shared multi-agency Child Protection Procedures supported by local protocols and practice guidance endorsed by the LSCB.
• by developing and running a multi-agency safeguarding training programme for those whose work involved children and young people.
• through the effective monitoring of partner agencies’ compliance with the Children Act 2004