Cheshire East Local Safeguarding Children Board is a partnership of agencies set up to co-ordinate and ensure the effectiveness of services to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in the area of the authority. This includes arrangements across agencies for Child Protection Systems.
The LSCB is a ‘statutory body’ which is required to exist by Section 14(1) of the Children Act 2004 and Local Safeguarding Children regulations 2006. All of its work is directed by the Government’s publication ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children: a guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children (March 2010).
This is driven by our vision that every child and young person in Cheshire East should be able to grow up safe from maltreatment, neglect, accidental injury or death, bullying and discrimination, crime and anti-social behaviour.
Our Mission states that “We will work together to ensure that where children are harmed, or at risk of harm, all agencies will actively cooperate to safeguard them and promote their welfare.”
Our Management Board
Our Board includes representatives from a wide range of agencies, charities and services that contribute to child protection. These representatives are senior people who can get things done.
- Cheshire East Borough Council
- Cheshire Constabulary
- CAFCASS
- Cheshire Youth Offending Service
- Cheshire Probation Service
- Central & Eastern Cheshire Primary Care Trust
- NSPCC
- Cheshire Probation Service
- Connexions Cheshire and Warrington
- Cheshire and Wirral NHS Partnership
- Mid Cheshire NHS Foundation Hospital (Leighton Hospital)
- East Cheshire NHS Trust
- Western Cheshire Primary Care Trust
- HMP and YOI Styal
- ‘The Hub’ representing Voluntary, Faith and Independent sectors
- Cheshire Primary School Head Teachers
- Cheshire Secondary School Head Teachers
Our areas of work include:
- Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy and Procedures
- Safer recruitment and employment
- Monitoring the performance of agencies working together to safeguard children
- Serious case Reviews
- Monitoring of Child Deaths
- Communications to professionals, children & families in touch with safeguarding services, and the general public.
For further information about the LSCB go to:
http://www.cheshireeastlscb.org.uk/
Contact LSCB@cheshireeast.gov.uk or 01625 374753
Postal address:
Cheshire East LSCB
1st floor, Town Hall, Market Place, Macclesfield SK11 1DX
Cheshire East LSCB does not deal with individual children’s cases – if you are concerned about the safety of a child or young person, contact Cheshire East Children’s Assessment Team on 0300 123 5012 or if outside office hours contact the Emergency Duty Team on 0300 123 5022
