Bridgend Local Safeguarding Children Board Responsibilities

The Bridgend Local Safeguarding Children Board has a number of responsibilities:

To promote the safety of children in Bridgend, including understanding the causes of child deaths, and serious cases involving injuries and neglect.
To promote, encourage and sustain a community involvement in safeguarding children, and improving levels of safety for children.
To publicise materials which highlight issues relating to the protection and safety of children.
To participate in the local planning and commissioning of children's services to ensure that they take safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children into account.
To undertake reviews of cases where a child had died or has been seriously harmed in circumstances where abuse or neglect is known or suspected and advising on lessons which can be learned.
To promote the safest possible practices in relation to the recruitment and training of all those who work with children in a statutory and voluntary capacity.

To lead and oversee the safeguarding work of the agencies represented on the Board.
On a continuous basis, to develop and agree inter-agency policies, procedures and protocols which focus on safeguarding children.
To monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of inter-agency working arrangements by maintaining a robust reviewing system and through the monitoring of performance.
To hold agencies to account for the effectiveness of their work in safeguarding children.
To develop and maintain inter-agency training for staff and those in the community, aimed at safeguarding children and improving safety.

To ensure the Board is adequately resourced and supported to carry out its function as defined by statutory guidance.
To receive reports on matters and local and national relevance relating to the objectives of the Board.
To publish an Annual Plan.

To develop policies and procedures which focuses on the need for adult services to recognise the impact of adult problems on children's welfare and to ensure training programmes enable adult care staff to respond appropriately to the needs of adults as parents.
To act as the 'responsible' authority for 'matters relating to the protection of children from harm' under the Licensing Act 2003.