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The Leicester Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) brings together all the main organisations who work
with children and families in Leicester, with the aim of ensuring that they work together effectively to keep
children and young people safe.

 

If you need any more information, please call us on 0116 256 5151.

News

Learning from Case Reviews and

voluntary sector Are you safe? training events for professionals in March are open for bookings

 

Domestic Violence Consultation

Time is running out to have your say about the  proposed new model for delivering domestic violence support services in Leicester City. The consultation exercise finishes on 03/02/2012. Full details are available here

 

A Serious Case Review into the deaths of 2 children early in 2011 has published its findings. The Overview Report is available here. The Executive Summary report is available here.

 

Thresholds Guidance - The latest guidance for professionals working with children and families is now available here

 

Safeguarding Children Training

For details about training click here

  

The Social Care Iinstitute for Excellence (SCIE) has produced a Parental substance misuse elearningresource which is designed to support social workers when working with families where a parent or parents are misusing drugs or alcohol.

 

Private Fostering Information

If you are a parent and/or carer requiring information about private fostering please see Leaflet and futher information 

Private fostering Information for practioners is also available.

        

There is a new version of the form for making referrals to Childrens Social Care Services in Leicester City. Please ensure that all previous versions of the referral form held within agencies or organisations are removed and replaced with this new version, which is can be downloaded from here

  

The calendar for LSCB  and Sub Group meetings for 2012 has now been set.  You are able to print the calendar from here.  (Please note this is a A3 size document when printing)

 

Key LSCB documents can be accessed through the below links:

Annual Report

Business Plan 2011-12

Board Meeting minutes

 

The next full Board meeting will be held on Thursday 8th December 2011.

Resources For Practioners

The LSCB Procedures have been revised and went "Live" on Tuesday 7th June 2011. The Procedures are now compatible with the latest version of "Working Together"(2010). 23 chapters of Procedures and 22 pieces of Practice Guidance have been consolidated into 13 easy-to-access sections that are searchable by the use of keywords. There is also an entire section dedicated to the Think Family approach.  

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To help you download any of the pdf files please follow this link

 

 LSCB Research Digest is a bi-monthly digest of relevant safeguarding research that should prove useful to busy practitioners and managers.