Safeguarding Children is about protecting children and young people from abuse or neglect and ensuring that they grow up in a safe environment.
The Children Act 2004 says that each area must have a Safeguarding Children Board. Ours is made up by representatives from many organisations who have a role in safeguarding children across Hampshire.
Safeguarding Children Boards
· Join up what local organisations do to safeguard children
· Check what organisations do and how well they do it
· Check if the work being done makes a difference
They do this by:
1. Work to prevent abuse and promote safety:
Setting out clearly what organisations and their staff should do to protect children.
Working to prevent bullying, accidents, injuries and death.
Ensuring that children, young people and adults know who they can contact when they have concerns about their own or other’s safety and welfare
2. Work that targets particular groups of children and young people such as:
Children in Care
Children involved in crime or gangs
Disabled Children
3. Work to respond to children and young people who are suffering or may be suffering harm
such as through Abuse or neglect by family, strangers or professional/volunteer carers or other children
Living in households where there is domestic abuse, where adults abuse drugs or alcohol or have a mental illness.
Childrens Priorities
Children Living with domestic abuse
Self Harm
Young people involved in crime
Missing Children
Children who abuse others
Young people involved in drugs and alcohol
Children living with drugs and alcohol misuse
Bullying
Safe recruitment of people involved with children
Asylum seeking/trafficked/refugee children
Children involved in gangs
Disabled children
E safety
Road Safety
Teenage Pregnancy
Advice on these subjects can be found on Hampshire's Youth Tube website
