Shropshire Safeguarding Children Board - SSCB

The Shropshire Safeguarding Children's Board (SSCB) in Shropshire is a representative group of agencies involved in Safeguarding Children and Child Protection.

Primary responsibility for the care and protection of children rests with parents, but a range of services is available to help them in this task.

Many referrals to agencies are made by parents seeking help for themselves. Relatives, friends and neighbours may also help directly or encourage families to seek help or alert statutory authorities to children about whom they are concerned.

It is the task of both the Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin Committees to ensure that the work of all relevant agencies is coordinated and reviewed.

The committee includes representatives from:

• Health – Accident and Emergency, Child Psychiatry, Paediatrics and Community Nursing
• Police
• Local Health Authority - Lead Teacher/Special needs co-ordinator
• Social Care and Health
• Probation
• General Medical Practitioner
• National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)
• Community and Environment Services
• Stoke Heath
• Community Mental Health
• Armed Forces
• Youth Offending Team
• Education

The work of the Shropshire Safeguarding Children Board - SSCB

The SSCB will establish a programme of work to develop and keep under review local joint policies and procedures for the management of child protection. The main areas of activity are to:

• establish, maintain and review local inter-agency guidelines on procedures to be followed in individual cases;
• review significant issues arising from the handling of cases and reports from inquiries;
• review arrangements and provide expert advice and inter-agency liaison;
• review progress on work to prevent harm to children;
• review work related to inter-agency training.

For further information on the work of Shropshire’s Local Safeguarding Children Board please contact either:

Liz Nicholson
Chair of LSCB
Children and Young People's Services Directorate
Shropshire County Council
Shirehall
Abbey Foregate
Shrewsbury
SY2 6ND
01743 254301
liz.nicholson@shropshire-cc.gov.uk

or

Adam Scott
Children’s Safeguarding Manager
Children and Young People's Services Directorate
Shropshire County Council
Shirehall
Abbey Foregate
Shrewsbury
SY2 6ND
01743 253723
adam.scott@shropshire-cc.gov.uk