to the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Local Safeguarding Children Board website. The board is an inter-agency forum for agreeing how different services and professional groups should co-operate to safeguard children in their local area, and for making sure that arrangements work effectively for bringing about good outcomes for children.
The Spring 2008 Newsletter is now available and can be accessed on this website. Copies have been distributed and can be sent to you if you contact the LSCB office on 0116 260 0004.
Agencies and individuals can be kept up to date with, for example, recent changes in key personnel and with new developments.
Articles in this edition include:
Safer Internet Week. On 25th February Leicestershire County Council's Safer Internet Week was launched at All Saints Church of England Primary School in Wigston.
Forced Marriage Helpline. From April 2008 there is a new national helpline for victims of forced marriage and honour-based violence called the 'Honour Network'.
Work Experience. Schools and Further Education Colleges have taken on wide safeguarding responsibilities for their students and further guidance is now available to cover students undertaking Work Experience.
An interview with Detective Sergeant Lisa Greenhill of the CAIU (Child Abuse Investigation Unit).