Parents, carers, family and friends

This section is to provide information about Safeguarding to parents, carers, family and friends to promote the welfare of children and young people.

Child protection is not just about protecting children from abuse or neglect. It is also about helping children to grow up into confident, healthy and happy adults. The Wandsworth Safeguarding Children Board (WSCB) aim to work together to provide services, care and support to children and their families in the borough, creating a healthy and positive environment, which will contribute to the safeguarding and promote the welfare of all children and young people in the borough, so that they can be safe, thrive and achieve.

You can find out how to contact us, or perhaps talk to someone else, in our 'Reporting concern or abuse' section. We have also written about what we can and will do to help if you want us to.

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Children and Young People's Plan 2008-2011

Working together with all the partner agencies in Wandsworth, a new Children and Young People's Plan for 2008-2011 has been produced. This builds on the first plan which covered the period 2006-2008.

The new Children and Young People's Plan sets out a shared set of priorities and a vision for developing services for children and young people across the borough. The plan is based around actions to support the 5 'Every Child Matters' outcomes which are designed to ensure that children and young people are:

• Safe from harm (STAY SAFE)
• Healthy and have healthy lifestyles (BE HEALTHY)
• Doing well at school and enjoying their leisure time (ENJOY and ACHIEVE)
• Contributing positively to society (MAKE a POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION)
• Living in families with enough money to meet their needs, and have the skills to progress in their lives (ECONOMIC WELL-BEING)

Background information
The priorities in the plan have been shaped by the views of children and young people themselves as well as parents, carers and families from across the borough. The plan also reflects the important issues identified by the schools, health services, police and other partners. By looking carefully at data and listening to a wide range of views, a number of actions and priorities have been developed that we hope will have a positive impact on children and young people in Wandsworth.

A copy of the full plan, summary version and children and young peoples version are available below. We will be monitoring our performance against targets regularly to make sure we are on track, and we'll review and update the plan annually to make sure it stays relevant.

To read the various versions of the Children and Young People's Plan, click here:

Full version

Summary version

Children and Young People's version

The vision for children and young people in Wandsworth

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Safer Parenting Handbook

This handbook has been produced by the WSCB, in consultation with parents and carers living in the borough. It contains a range of useful advice and information for parents and carers.

We hope that this handbook will give you some information and ideas to help you find ways through what can seem like a maze of issues and advice. We hope you find this helpful and worth keeping for future reference.

Safer Parenting Handbook

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