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Wandsworth Safeguarding Children Partnership (WSCP)

Safeguarding Children Partnerships were set up following the Children Act 2004 resulting from the Victoria Climbie enquiry, which called for new arrangements to hold people to account in organisations responsible for safeguarding children.

The WSCP has a really important role in coordinating and ensuring the effectiveness of what is done by each, and every person involved in protecting children and carries statutory responsibilities for safeguarding children in Wandsworth.

It is made up of senior managers within organisations in Wandsworth, who hold responsibility for safeguarding children in their agencies,

It is everyone's responsibility to safeguard children and young people, whether you work directly or indirectly with them.

The WSCP monitors how they all work together to provide services for children and ensure children are protected.

Working Together to Safeguard Children 2015, the statutory guidance, identifies that everyone who comes into contact with children and young people has a contribution to make and puts greater emphasis on early help services to ensure that children receive the support they need to prevent a problem escalating. It affirms that effective safeguarding of children can only be achieved by putting children at the centre of the system.

We have reviewed and revised our key safeguarding priorities in 2023.

These are:

  1. Anti-Racist Practice, Actions, Behaviour, and Culture across the Partnership and within all organisations.
  2. To deliver excellent education to children in Wandsworth with a focus on children with special educational needs, and young people who have been disproportionately impacted by COVID restrictions, ensuring needs are assessed and that children receive the right support at the right time in the right provision to enable every child to reach their potential.
  3. To work alongside children, young people, and communities to develop and deliver accessible early help services to children and families in Wandsworth with a focus on supporting disadvantaged and marginalised families, increasing fairness and inclusivity, and improving the wellbeing of children, young people, and their families in Wandsworth.  
  4. To deliver accessible and inclusive mental and physical health services to children, young people and parents and carers ensuring access pathways for services are clear and gaps in services responded to. 
  5. To have meaningful multi agency data that enables the Leadership to understand the effectiveness of the safeguarding response to children and young people and to act quickly when there are areas of vulnerability or risk. 

 

To find out more please contact the Partnership: