The LSCB
Role:
The Lambeth Safeguarding Children Board is the key statutory mechanism for agreeing how the relevant organisations in Lambeth will co-operate to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in Lambeth, and for ensuring the effectiveness of what they do. (Working Together, March 2006)
The role and structure of the Committee is based on that laid out in the Department of Health’s “Working Together to Safeguard Children” first produced in 1989, updated in 1999 and most recently updated and republished in March 2006. The core objectives are set out in section 14(1) of the Children Act 2004 as follows:
a. To co-ordinate what is done by each person or body represented on the Board for the purposes of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in the area of the authority, and
b. To ensure the effectiveness of what is done by each such person or body for that purpose.
The Board:
The LSCB is currently chaired by Phyllis Dunipace, the Executive Director of Children and Young People’s Services, but will shortly be chaired by an Independent Chair, following the recommendations of the Laming Review.
Further information on the LSCB strategy, priorities, membership and sub-committees can be found in the three year LSCB Strategic Plan.
LSCB Minutes
2010
24th May 2010
15th March 2010
25th January 2010
2009
2008
17th November 2008
15th September 2008
15th July 2008
19th May 2008
If you want to raise an issue for discussion at the Board please contact your own agencies’ Board Member to ask them to table the item.
