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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

Safeguarding Children Training

For details about training click here

including how to access e-learning available to staff and volunteers of any organisation working with children, young people and families in Leicester. 

 

Research Digest Issue 7 is available here

 

The Ofsted Inspection Report into local arrangements for Safeguarding and Looked After Children was published on 25th January 2012.  You can download a copy of the report from 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

         

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

 

Private Fostering Information

If you are a parent and/or carer requiring information about private fostering please click here

 

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 21st June 2012.

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.