On this page: About the Board | What does safeguarding mean? | Annual Report & Business Plan 2008/09 | Flowchart of WSCB Structure | Dates of WSCB meetings | Annual Review Report

About the Board

The Children Act 2004 required each Local Authority to establish a Local Safeguarding Children Board.

The Wandsworth Safeguarding Children Board (WSCB) is the key statutory mechanism for agreeing how the relevant organisations in Wandsworth co-ordinate services and co-operate to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and for ensuring the effectiveness of what they do.

The WSCB is a multi-disciplinary forum, bringing together senior representatives of the main agencies responsible for working together to prevent and protect children from suffering significant harm, and to improve the well-being of all children.

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What does safeguarding mean?

Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is defined in Working Together as:

• protecting children from maltreatment;
• preventing impairment of children's health or development;
• ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and
• undertaking these functions so as to enable those children to have optimum life chances and enter adulthood successfully.

The WSCB will ensure that the statutory duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children is carried out in such a way as to improve the well-being of children in relation to the five outcomes set by the government for all children (being healthy, staying safe, enjoying and achieving, making a positive contribution and achieving economic well-being).

Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children includes protecting children from harm. Ensuring that work to protect children is properly co-ordinated and effective remains a key goal for our board, and the WSCB should not focus on their wider role of preventative work to avoid harm being suffered, if this core responsibility is not being met.

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Annual Report & Business Plan 2008/09

Please click here to access the WSCB's Annual Report & Business Plan 2008/09.

Appendix 1 - WSCB Structure

Appendix 2a & 2b - Membership Executive & Main WSCB

Appendix 3 - Budget 2007/08

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Flowchart of WSCB

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Dates for WSCB Meetings

Main WSCB

• 27th November 2008 - 2.00pm - 4.30pm
• 5th February 2009 - 2.00pm - 5.00pm
• 7th May 2009 - 2.00pm - 5.00pm
• 10th September 2009 - 2.00pm - 5.00pm
• 26th November 2009 - 2.00pm - 5.00pm

Executive Board

• 9th March 2009 - 9.15am - 11.45am
• 6th July 2009 - 9.15am - 11.45am
• 19th October 2009 - 9.15am - 11.45am

Sub-groups Meetings

Please click here to view the dates of the various WSCB Sub-group Meetings.

Annual Review Report - September 2007

The Chair of the Wandsworth Safeguarding Children Board, who is also the Chief Executive and Director of Administration of the Council, completed his annual review report on the progress on safeguarding children and young people in Wandsworth and the work of the Wandsworth Safeguarding Children Board.

Annual Review Report

• Annual Review - Appendix 1
• Annual Review - Appendix 2
• Annual Review - Appendix 3

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