Berkshire West LSCBs and SAPBSafeguarding Conference 2013

Independent Chair LSCBs: Stephen Barber

Independent Chair SAPB: Sylvia Stone

What is the LSCB?

The Children Act 2004 required each local authority to establish a Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB)

The LSCB is the key statutory mechanism for agreeing how the relevant organisations (statutory partners) in each local area will cooperate

What do the LSCBs do?

Provide the multi-agency CP procedures

Provide multi-agency training Meet quarterly to deal with strategic

issues and resolve problems Run a number of subgroups Issue an annual report

Today’s conference

Why sexual abuse?

Why sexual abuse?

Increased public attention, government action and referrals

Celebrity cases: Jimmy Savile Child sexual exploitation cases:

Operation Bullfinch Abuse by professionals: teachers,

nursery workers, priests

Why sexual abuse?

Low rate of identification in childhood

Low success rate in bringing perpetrators to justice

Hearing the voice of adult survivors

The influence of the internet

Cyber bullying: ask.com Legal adult pornography Thriving trade in indecent images of

children Sexting: self-generated abuse

images Poor use of privacy settings and

parental controls

Our responses

Get better at recognizing the signs Use multi-agency processes such as

case conferences and MAPPA Push for justice: changes in CPS

policy Reparation, therapy and healing

Questions