About Kent Safeguarding Children Board (KSCB)
What is KSCB?
The Children Act 2004 makes it clear that safeguarding is everybody’s responsibility and that Local Councils with their partners must establish a Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) by April 2006. In
The Kent Safeguarding Children Board brings together representatives of each of the main agencies and professionals responsible for helping to protect children from abuse and neglect. It is an inter-agency forum for agreeing how the different services and professional groups should co-operate to safeguard children throughout
Our functions:
KSCB has the specific statutory responsibility for:
- Developing Policies and Procedures for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in the Kent area:
- Communicating to people and organsiations in Kent the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, raising their awareness of how this can be best done and encouraging them to do so:
- Monitoring and evaluate the effectiveness of what is done by the Local Authority and board partners individually and collectively to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and advise them on ways to improve:
- Participating in the local planning and commissioning of Children’s Services to ensure that they take safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children into account:
- From April 2008 the Board will have the functions set out in regulations relating to child deaths. Collecting and analysing information about the deaths of all children in their area:
- Putting in place procedures for ensuring that there is a co-ordinated response by the Local Authority, their Board partners and other relevant persons to an unexpected death of a child.