Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Board
Introduction from the Independent Chair
Welcome to the website of the Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Board and thank-you for visiting it. There is a huge amount of information within this website and I hope that you will find it useful whether you are a child or young person, a parent, carer, professional or someone concerned about the safeguarding of children.
All the organisations that make up the membership of Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Board are committed to work with the people of Gloucestershire and each other effectively to protect and keep our children safe. Whether children are at risk of or suffering harm or their welfare is compromised, this can only be resolved if we are all vigilant enough to recognise it and then take personal responsibility for doing something about it; safeguarding is everyone's business.
As with everything we do, we are constantly seeking to improve our effectiveness. If you have any suggestions as to how we could improve our website, please email us at [email protected].
Dave McCallum
Independent Chair of the Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Board
What is the Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Board here to do?
The Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Board (GSCB) is responsible for co-ordinating what is done by each person or organisation represented on the Board for the purposes of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in Gloucestershire - and checking that what they do is effective. The Board functions include making sure safeguarding policies are in place; communicating the need to safeguard children; evaluating the effectiveness of what is done by Board partners to safeguard children; and making sure lessons are learnt from Serious Case Reviews.
The Executive of the Board is the committee that oversees the work of the sub groups, feeding information up to the larger Board. In the other direction, it takes information, ideas and concerns from the Board and considers how this should be actioned and which sub groups should be responsible. The GSCB Sub-groups include:
- Policy & Procedures
- Multi-Agency Quality Assurance (MAQuA)
- Serious Case Review
- Education and Learning
- Workforce Development
- Communications
- Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)
- Child Death Overview Panel (CDOP)
The GSCB has worked to align structure and priorities as closely as possible with the Gloucestershire Safeguarding Adults Board (GSAB). Part of this process has been to look closely at the work of both Boards, bringing them together wherever there is an overlap.
