Local Safeguarding Children Board Blackpool 

Local Safeguarding Children Board Blackpool brings together each of the main organisations that work with children and families in the Borough, to make sure that we keep them safe and that we promote their welfare through the service we provide.  Partners in Blackpool’s LSCB include, among others, senior representatives from Blackpool’s Children’s Services Authority, Blackpool Primary Care Trust, Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospital Trust, Lancashire Constabulary and Lancashire Probation Service.

The Local Safeguarding Children Board Blackpool, began its life in October 2005, and has developed considerably during the year from April 2006 until now.  In making Local Safeguarding Children Boards statutory bodies, the Government’s intention was to place awareness of safeguarding high on everyone’s agenda and, in addition to the duty to ‘safeguard and promote the welfare of children’, there are enhanced expectations of agencies who provide services to children, in relation to recruitment, raising awareness, training, information sharing and effective working together.

Safeguarding and promoting the welfare means:

• Protecting children from maltreatment;
• Preventing impairment of children’s health or development;
• Ensuring that children are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and
• Undertaking that role so as to enable those children to have optimum life chances and enter adulthood successfully.