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About LSCB
Role and Responsibilities
The specific responsibilities of an LSCB
are:
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to develop and agree local policies
and procedures for inter-agency work
to protect children, within the national
framework provided by this guidance;
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to audit and evaluate how well local
services work together to protect
children, for example, through wider
case audits;
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to put in place objectives and performance
indicators for child protection, within
the framework and objectives set out
in Children’s Services Plans;
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to encourage and help develop effective
working relationships between different
services and professional groups,
based on trust and mutual understanding;
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to ensure that there is a level
of agreement and understanding across
agencies about operational definitions
and thresholds for intervention;
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to improve local ways of working
in the light of knowledge gained through
national and local experience and
research, and to make sure that any
lessons learned are shared, understood,
and acted upon;
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to undertake case reviews where
a child has died or - in certain circumstances
- been seriously harmed, and abuse
or neglect are confirmed or suspected.
To make sure that any lessons from
the case are understood and acted
upon; to communicate clearly to individual
services and professional groups their
shared responsibility for protecting
children, and to explain how each
can contribute;
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to help improve the quality of child
protection work and of inter-agency
working through specifying needs for
inter-agency training and development,
and ensuring that training is delivered;
and to raise awareness within the
wider community of the need to safeguard
children and promote their welfare
and to explain how the wider community
can contribute to these objectives.
Sub Groups
The Leeds LSCB has executive responsibility
for all of its functions but delegates
responsibility to a number of subgroups
to undertake work on behalf of the LSCB.
These are:
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Professional Practice
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Publicity, Information and Research
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Training
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Therapeutic Services
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Voluntary Agencies
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Review of Registration
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Serious Case Review Review Monitoring
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Budget Group
The Local Child Protection Committees
These are:
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North West Leeds
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North East Leeds
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East Leeds
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South Leeds
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West Leeds
The Local Child Protection Committees
are area based meetings of representatives
of the constituent agencies of Leeds LSCB,
primarily first line managers, dealing
with local initiatives and areas of concern
in child protection work.
They form a link between LSCB and the
Inter-Agency Support Groups, which are
open to all workers dealing directly with
child protection cases, and are arranged
around smaller localities.
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