Children Living Away from Home Procedures
The new Chapter 22 Children Living Away from Home Procedures are on the LSCB website.
See Chapter 22
Safeguarding disabled children: Practice guidance.
The Staying Safe: Action Plan made a commitment to target policies to protect disabled children and to promote their welfare, and specifically to launch new practice guidance on safeguarding disabled children in line with Working Together to Safeguard Children.
Safeguarding disabled children: Practice guidance
Safeguarding – Guidance On Domestic Violence.
This extensive resource from the Department of Health provides information about children, domestic violence and related issues. Guidance on domestic violence
Looked After Children – DCSF guidance
The Department for Children Schools and Families has produced material to support work with looked after children. This includes statutory guidance on improving health and well being and three sets of information covering attainment in primary and in secondary schools, and the role of the designated teacher.
A new version of the LSCB procedures 'Chapter 22 - Children Living Away from Home' will be available soon on the LSCB Website
The DCSF guidance can be accessed through the link: Looked After Children Guidance
Joint letter from LSCB Chairs
A letter from the interim LSCB chairs has been published to explain the disaggregation process as the current Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland LSCB becomes two separate bodies.Joint chairs letter
New Training Strategy
LSCB members have recently agreed a revised strategic way forwarded for single and inter-agency training.
A phased implementation process is taking place between September 2009 and April 2010. Training
