About Hampshire Safeguarding Children Board

Hampshire Safeguarding Children Board (HSCB) is a statutory body which co-ordinates, monitors and challenges its partner agencies in safeguarding children in Hampshire.

The Children Act 2004 (S13) required that children’s services authorities establish a Local Safeguarding Children Board  for their area.  The statutory guidance document  Working Together to Safeguard Children 2010 (HM Government) sets out how this should be done. The Constitution of the Hampshire Safeguarding Children Board sets out how this is done in Hampshire.

Most agencies and organisations that provide services to adults and children must make arrangements to ensure that they safeguard and promote the welfare of (Children Act 2004 Section 11 and Education Act 2002 Section 175 (c.32)). This also applies to any services commissioned by them. These responsibilities are set out in the Department for Education Section 11 arrangements and responsibilities document.

The Board works closely with the Children’s Trust in Hampshire to influence the effective development of services, particularly in achieving the Staying Safe outcome for children and is a formal consultee of the of the Children and Young People’s Plan.

The HSCB Annual Report on the effectiveness of safeguarding in the local area sets out the Boards priorities and drives the development of services in safeguarding children and young people in Hampshire.    

  

“To keep children safe and promote their welfare all agencies and the wider community need to understand their responsibilities towards children. Hampshire Safeguarding Children Board provides the platform to discuss and challenge each other to enable the right discussions to be made and address the very real issues that face children and young people in Hampshire today.”

 

All children and young people regardless of age, disability, gender, race or sexuality are considered within the work of the Board.  The Board will ensure the participation of children and young people by applying the principles of the Children and Young People’s Participation Strategy to its work.

Statutory Board Partners

Although the HSCB works with a range of statutory and voluntary organisations the following are our statutory partners:

  • Hampshire County Council including Adult and Children’s Services
  • 11 District Councils
  •  NHS Hampshire and 5 NHS Trusts
  • Hampshire Police
  • Hampshire Probation
  • Wessex Youth Offending Team
  • Connexions (Now part of Children’s Services)
  • CAFCASS (Children and Family Courts Advisory and Support Service)
  • The Armed Forces

Our Board induction booklet includes a list of current members, please click here to access the bookletMore information on LSCBs can be found on the Department for Education website 

NEWS

  • We are pleased to announce the launch of the new 4LSCB Safeguarding Children Procedures. The procedures underpin and guide the work that all agencies undertake to protect children. Thank you to everybody who has contributed to writing the procedures. They are in a working draft format at present until 4 July, you have the oppertunity to feed any comments on them back to us through Tri.X, the company that have produced them for us. The 4 LSCBs will then consider and make any necessary revisions. After this period, the procedures will be updated as required.

    Please click here to access the procedures

  • Thank you to all 250 delegates for attending the very successful 2010 HSCB conference on Neglect  Please click here to download Patrick Ayre's presentation.

  • We hope that you will take the learning from the conference back into practice. If you have any further suggestions that you would like to make about how we can take forward the learning into inter-agency practice then do contact us hscb@hants.gov.uk. Thank you to all involved for making this day so successful.

  • The Munro Review of Child Protection- Part one is now avaliable. Please click here to download 

  • The Munro Review of Child protection- Interim report is now avaliable. Please click here to download