Children, Schools and Families written question – answered at on 30 October 2008.
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families if his Department will consider giving local safeguarding children boards a role in identifying and supporting the children of imprisoned parents.
Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) set local priorities for inter-agency safeguarding work and already have a role in ensuring that agencies work together to safeguard all children (including those of prisoners). Over the past two years, LSCBs have established themselves as a crucial part of the children's services landscape. Their role in co-ordinating, and ensuring the effectiveness of, action by partner agencies is vital in the drive to improve safeguarding practice in local areas.
The DCSF is undertaking a stocktake of LSCBs, and I will ensure that this issue is considered as part of this review, to develop recommendations that will help all LSCBs perform at the level of the best. The stocktake will be conducted in close collaboration with local authority and other partners and will report in spring 2009.
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