Buckinghamshire
Safeguarding
Children Board
The Role and Scope of the BSCB
The Buckinghamshire Safeguarding Children Board (BSCB) was set up in January 2006 in accordance with Working Together to Safeguard Children, to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in Buckinghamshire. Under the requirements of the Children Act 2004, the BSCB is the key statutory mechanism for agreeing how the relevant organisations in Buckinghamshire will co-operate to safeguard and promote the welfare of children it its locality. Under this statutory requirement, the BSCB is also required to ensure the effectiveness of what these organisations do.
The core objectives of the BSCB are to:
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Co-ordinate what is done by each person or body represented on the Board to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in Buckinghamshire; and
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Ensure the effectiveness of what is done by each such person or body for those purposes (s14(1) Children Act 2004)
The Scope of BSCB
BSCB will contribute to the key outcomes of the Every Child Matters Agenda and in particular ‘staying safe’ by co-ordinating work to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and ensuring that work is effective.
Staying Safe includes:
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Protecting children from harm
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Preventing impairment of children’s health and development
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Ensuring children have safe and effective care
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Undertaking the role in ways that ensure children have optimum life chances and successfully enter adulthood
The BSCB will specify in every Annual Business plan the extent of the safeguarding agenda that it is seeking to cover for the year, with a view to working progressively to embracing the full safeguarding agenda.
Co-ordinating work to ensure children are properly protected from harm remains the core function of the BSCB. The BSCB will concentrate on core safeguarding issues for achieving ‘Staying Safe Outcome’s as well as contribute to ‘Being Health Outcomes’ within the Every Child Matters Agenda.
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