The Local Safeguarding Children Board

Working to keep West Cheshire's children and young people safe

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Cheshire West and Chester Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB)

We are the key statutory mechanism for agreeing how the relevant organisations in each local area will cooperate to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in Cheshire West and Chester and for ensuring the effectiveness of what they do.

Our aim is to work together so that children in Cheshire West and Chester can be safe from abuse or harm at home and within our community. This site provides information for the public, children, parents, carers and professionals.

Annual Conference
Tuesday 29th May 2012
Safeguarding Priorities 2012-14

If you would like further information about the conference and to book a place please follow the link to our training page.

Report Child Abuse

If you have concerns about a child’s welfare, or feel that they may be being abused, please contact the Children’s Contact and Referral Team or the Emergency Duty Team (out of hours).

Alternatively, in an emergency, phone the police on
0845 458 0000.

Please be assured that your referral will be treated in the strictest confidence. Remember, your call could mean the start of getting the right help to a family and may even save a child’s life.

Annual Report 2011/12

If you would like to find out about the work of the LSCB Board and the sub-groups during 2011/12 the LSCB Annual Report 2011-12 is available to download.

Fabricated or Induced Illness for health professionals and organisations

Access specific guidlelines and flowchart for health professionals and organisations

Bruising in Children who are Not Independently Mobile

Please view the new suite of information relating to bruising in children who are not independently mobile

Escalation Policy

Would you like to find out more about resolving professional disagreements?

Pre-Birth Assessment

A pre-birth assessment is a proactive means of analysing the potential risk to a newborn baby when there are concerns about a pregnant woman and where appropriate, her partner and immediate family. Multi-Agency policy and practice guidance has been written and can be downloaded here –  Pre Birth Assessment Policy March 2012.

Multi-Agency Guidance on Effective Chronologies

Please click the text to download the document: Chronologies Guidance

Child Protection Conference Guidance

The aim of the guidance is to:

  • To clarify role expectations for those contributing to the child protection conference process to enable LSCB partner agencies to fulfil their statutory responsibilities under Section 11 of the Children Act 2004 and section 175 and 157 of the Education Act 2002.
  • To ensure a better understanding of roles and responsibilities within the child protection conferencing process.
  • To develop the skills and confidence of staff in all agencies in contributing effectively to child protection conferences and child protection plans.
  • To ensure the LSCB child protection standards are met by all agencies

Please download the full guidance Final CWAC Conference Guidance

Child Protection Conference and Core Group Meeting Downloads

Report To Core Group
Conference Report Template
Core Group Meeting Minutes Template
Outcome Evaluation Questionnaire for Children
Outcome Evaluation Questionnaire for Parents

Child Protection Procedures Questionnaire

The LSCB team would like to know your views about the Child Protection Procedures. To capture your views of how useful the procedures are we have created a short questionnaire for you – it should take less than two minutes to complete.