We want to make sure children and young people feel safe and cared for in Bedford Borough.
Working Together 2018 sets out requirements for new collaborative working arrangements for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and families which will lead to improved outcomes and experiences. The new arrangements in Bedford Borough will still be named the Bedford Borough Safeguarding Children Board (BBSCB).
The Bedford Borough Safeguarding Children Board’s Multi Agency Safeguarding Arrangements (MASAs) were implemented in September 2019.
The MASA sets out the arrangements for safeguarding partners to work together with other agencies to identify and respond to the needs of children in Bedford Borough, and the three safeguarding partners Bedford Borough Council, Bedfordshire Police and the Bedfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group have equal and joint responsibility for local safeguarding arrangements.
With the requirements of the Children and Social Work Act 2017 the responsibility for ensuring that Child Death Reviews are carried out when a child dies will move from LSCBs to local authorities and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG), please see this statement from Bedfordshire CCG (Word).
Find out more about our board and its work in:
- Working Together to Safeguard Children guide (PDF)
- BBCSB Strategic Plan 2021 - 2023 to keep children and young people in Bedford Borough safe. (Word)
- BBCSB Annual report 2020/21 (PDF)
- Serious Case Reviews
- inter-agency procedures
- training courses including e-learning
If you have any suggestions on how to improve the information we provide, please contact us lscb@bedford.gov.uk and let us know what other information would be helpful to you.
We hope that children and young people, families and communities will use the website as well as practitioners working with children and young people.
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