Education written question – answered at on 30 November 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what steps he plans to take to ensure local safeguarding children boards will be (a) appropriately resourced and (b) able to secure improvement in partner agencies in local areas.
holding answer
Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCB) perform an important function in monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of what is done by the local authority and by board partners individually and collectively to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and advise them on ways to improve.
LSCBs have a unique, system-wide role to play in helping and protecting children and young people and the Government believe that their role and impact should be strengthened. We are currently exploring how best to do that with a range of partners in the sector and with LSCBs themselves. Part of this work will be to consider LSCBs' capacity at the local level to perform their role effectively.
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