Safeguarding Children

The Derbyshire Area Child Protection Committee (ACPC) has now been replaced by the Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Board.

What is the Safeguarding Children Board?

All Area Child Protection Committees (ACPC) have been replaced by Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) from 1 April 2006.  

Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Board met for the first time on Friday 24 March.  

Its members are mainly chief officers (or their nominees) from all the major agencies, with some additional organisations represented.  

The main signicance of the change is to put into practice the recommendation of the Laming Report that there should be accountability to the top of organisations delivering children's services.  

One major difference will be a widening of the responsibilities of the ACPC to 'safeguarding', which includes accidental child injury and death, and oversight of bullying and discrimination.

The SCB (like the ACPC) is responsible for producing local Child Protection Procedures based on national guidelines set out in Working Together to Safeguard Children (Dept of Health/Home Office/Department for Education and Employment 1999). 

It monitors the effectiveness of the Procedures systematically and amends them as it becomes necessary. 

Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Board will meet six times per year. 

The work of Safeguarding Children's Board is part of the wider context of children’s trust arrangements, but it has a particular focus on aspects of the ‘staying safe’  outcome.

Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Board is separate to the Children and Young People's Trust. You can read more about the board on its website by clicking on the link in the section below.

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