Buckinghamshire
Safeguarding
Children Board
The BSCB cont.
The scope of the BSCB role falls into three categories:
1. To engage in activities that safeguard all children and aims to identify and prevent maltreatment, or impairment of health or development, and ensures that children are growing up in circumstances consistent with safe and effective care
To achieve this objective the BSCB will:
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Continue to develop polices and procedures for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in Buckinghamshire
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Continue with, and expand monitoring activity into the effectiveness of organisations implementation of their duties under s11 of the Children Act 2004
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Establish means of communication with the communities in Buckinghamshire to ensure a wider understanding of safeguarding issues – and for the BSCB to respond to issues
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Ensure that information is available to children so they know who they can contact when they have concerns about their own safety and welfare
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Promote BSCB minimum standards for the recruitment and supervision of persons who work with children and monitor their implementation and compliance
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Ensure the full implementation of the BSCB training strategy to meet the training needs of staff across all agencies so that they work effectively together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children who may be at risk of significant harm
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Participate in the local planning and commissioning of children’s services to ensure they take safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children into account
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Continue to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of what is done by the Local Authority and Board partners individually and collectively to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and advise them on ways to improve. cont.
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