Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB)

What is the LSCB?

The Southend-on-Sea Local Safeguarding Children Board's (LSCB) main role is to improve the lives of children and young people in Southend by co-ordinating their safeguarding and promoting their welfare. It agrees how the relevant organisations within the community (for example the Borough Council, Health, Police, Probation and the Voluntary sector) will co-operate to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people within the local area, and for ensuring the effectiveness of what they do.

The LSCB works to ensure that children and young people are:

• Safe from maltreatment, neglect, violence and sexual exploitation,
• Secure, stable and cared for;

and helps to reduce the likelihood of them suffering from:

• Accidental death and injury
• Bullying and discrimination
• Crime and anti-social behaviour

The Southend-on-Sea LSCB believes that everyone is responsible for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and it works to achieve this by:

• Leading collaboration across all agencies in the community
• Developing and setting policies and procedures
• Monitoring and auditing their implementation
• Ensuring appropriate training is available
• Promoting awareness and action in the wider community
• Conducting Serious Case Reviews when a child dies or is seriously harmed and abuse or neglect is suspected.

What do we do?

The LSCB has produced a Business Plan which sets out what it aims to achieve. This is regularly reviewed to ensure that it does what it says it will.

The LSCB has a Multi Agency Training Programme for all those working with, or coming into contact with, children and young people. You will find the Training Programme and Southend LSCB Training Application Form below. Southend has identified Training Learning Outcomes which it applies to all development and training delivered in Southend to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.

The LSCB has been working together with our neighbours in Thurrock and Essex to develop new Child Protection procedures which are called the SET procedures.

If you have any queries about LSCB Training please contact the LSCB Administrator on 01702 215007, LSCB Business Manager on 01702 215007 or by email lscb@southend.gov.uk.

You can find all plans and programmes mentioned above in the Related Downloads link on the right of this page.

What do I do if I am concerned about a child?

Child Protection is the concern of everybody living in Southend. If you are concerned that a child is being abused or neglected, or that they may be at risk of harm, you should contact:

What do I do if I am a member of Southend Borough Council staff concerned about a child?

1. Read leaflet 'What to do if you're worried a child is being abused'
2. Contact the Designated Person for Child Protection in your service area for further advice

Child Death Reviews

From 1st April 2008 LSCBs are responsible for reviewing the deaths of all children from 0 to 18 years to:

• Collect and analyse information about all local childhood deaths with a view to identifying:
  • Cases requiring serious case review
  • Matters of concern affecting the safety and welfare of children
  • Wider public health or safety concerns arising from a particular death or from a pattern of deaths
• Undertake a coordinated response to all unexpected deaths of children

Southend LSCB is working in partnership with Essex Safeguarding Children Board and Thurrock Safeguarding Children Board to undertake these new responsibilities.

The Procedure for Deaths in Childhood and Protocol for Initial Assessment can be found in the attachments below.

Forms and notification procedures for reporting the death of a child can be found on the Essex Safeguarding Children Board website.