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.

Procedures are now available for consultation

The Southend, Essex and Thurrock (SET) Children Protection Procedures 2010 and Child Death Review Procedures June 2010 have been made available for consultation from Monday 5th July.

All partner agencies are asked to carefully review the drafts for consultation by Monday 2nd August, providing feedback and any suggested amendments using the consultation document. A summary consultation document is also provided to assist a quick read through of the new SET Child Protection Procedures 2010.

Completed feedback for either procedure should be sent to escb@essex.gov.uk.

All above mentioned documents can be found in our Related Downloads.