About Us
The Local Safeguarding Children Board Northamptonshire (LSCBN) is the key statutory mechanism for ensuring that the relevant organisations in Northamptonshire cooperate to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people. The LSCBN has a strategic role in challenging the overall safeguarding work of the Children and Young People’s Partnership Board (CYPPB) and for ensuring continuous improvement in practice. Working closely with the CYPPB the LSCBN takes lead responsibility for co-ordinating the safeguarding work of CYPPB partners and monitoring the quality and consistency of safeguarding practice and training across all partner agencies in the CYPPB. The Board is chaired by an Independent Chair.
The LSCBN is not an operational body or one that delivers services to children, young people or their families. Its role is co-ordinating and ensuring the effectiveness of what its member organisations do, including holding them to account for performance and contributing to broader planning, commissioning and delivery. To take forward its co-ordinating and monitoring roles, LSCBN is responsible for the following functions:
- Monitoring how well statutory agencies are carrying out their responsibility under section 11 of the Children Act 2004 to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, including their safe staffing arrangements.
- Setting up and running a programme of multi-agency safeguarding training
- Drawing up and monitoring the implementation of LSCBN inter-agency procedures
- Undertaking a Serious Case Review (SCR) when a child dies, and abuse or neglect is known or suspected to be a factor in the death; the purpose of SCRs is to establish the lessons to be learned from the case and how they will be acted upon, and as a consequence, improve inter-agency safeguarding of children
- Taking an overview of all child deaths (under 18 years) in the area, identifying any potentially contributory recurrent themes, circumstances, or possible limitations in service provision by one or more agencies.
The LSCBN Business Plan is regularly refreshed to ensure our priorities are relevant in driving the work of the LSCBN.
These are all intended to ensure that children and young people in Northamptonshire are
effectively safeguarded and their impact will be measured through the LSCBN Performance Framework.
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Our Priorities
- To function effectively and focus on ensuring that we hold partners to account for keeping children and young people safe.
- To ensure that frontline Child Protection is strengthened across agencies.
- To deliver a trained workforce with an embedded culture of safeguarding.
- To embed early intervention approaches to prevent safeguarding issues escalating.
All children and young people are safeguarded through universal, proactive targeted and responsive protective services
Documents
- Children and Young People's Plan.
- To view / download more information about us, visit the Useful Links and Publications page.
