Sefton Local Safeguarding Children Partnership
Sefton Revised SCP Arrangements
Sefton Safeguarding Children Partnership (SSCP) - Multi-Agency Safeguarding Arrangements
Sefton Safeguarding Children Partnership (SSCP) is a statutory body established by the Children and Social Work Act (2017). SSCP replaced the previous Sefton Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB). SSCP is a multi-agency partnership of organisations who agree how to work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. SSCP is led by the three statutory safeguarding partners of the Local Authority, Merseyside Police and Sefton Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs).
National Changes to Local Safeguarding Children Boards
Working Together to Safeguard Children (2018) is statutory guidance. The new guidance supports key changes put into law by The Children and Social Work Act 2017 which replaces LSCBs with new local safeguarding arrangements.
Sefton's Multi-agency Safeguarding Children Arrangements
The Safeguarding Partners are the Local Authority; Police and NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) operating in the Sefton area. These three Safeguarding Partners are charged with supporting and enabling local organisations and agencies to work together in a system where:
- children are safeguarded and their welfare promoted
- partner organisations and agencies collaborate, share and co-own the vision for how to achieve improved outcomes for vulnerable children
- there is early identification and analysis of new safeguarding issues and emerging threads
Sefton Safeguarding Children Partnership Business Team:
Deborah Hughes, Sefton SCP Manager
Donna Atkinson, Sefton SCP Administrator & Communications Officer
Louise Roberts, Sefton SCP Learning & Development Officer
Sefton SCP
3rd Floor, Magdalen House
Trinity Road, Bootle
L20 3NJ