Swindon Local Safeguarding Children Board

What is the Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB)?

Swindon LSCB brings together all the main organisations who work with children and families in Swindon, with the aim of ensuring that they work together effectively to keep children safe. It is a multi-agency body that contributes to and operates within the framework established with partner agencies to produce the Swindon Children and Young People’s Plan

The services provided by LSCB are shaped by guidance issued by the Department for Education and Skills, the Department of Health and the Home Office, notably the newly updated Working Together to Safeguard Children (2006).

The core legislation underpinning the work of the LSCB is the Children Act 1989 and the Chldren Act 2004, which provide a comprehensive framework for the care and protection of children whilst reflecting the principles of the Rights of the Child and the European Convention on Human Rights.

Swindon LSCB has developed a Constitution (ratified by the Board on 13 June 2006 and amended in 2007 and 2008) to help it carry out its work.