Issue - meetings

Report of the Chair of the Local Safeguarding Children Board presenting the Local Safeguarding Children Board Annual Report.

The Board received and noted the report of the Independent Chair of the Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) presenting the Local Safeguarding Children Board Annual Report 2016-17.  Keith Makin, Independent Chair was in attendance and with the consent of the Chair addressed the meeting.

The Board noted that the LSCB was moving forward during a period of national uncertainty with regard to the “Wood” Review of LSCB’s albeit the LSCB locally had unanimously agreed that it should continue in its current structure.  The review would also require Child Death Overview Panels to cover a specified population number which would mean the Pan Hants arrangement would need to be re-established which the LSCB locally welcomed given they had not agreed with the current arrangement that had been put into place following the previous Pan Hants arrangement.

The Board also noted that the LSCB had provided a focus on Child Sexual Exploitation, Missing Home/School, Modern Slavery, Gangs and Esafety over the last year and continued to work alongside the Safeguarding Adults Board to ensure a “think family” approach.