Doncaster Safeguarding Children Board

Welcome

Doncaster Safeguarding Children Board is the statutory multi-agency group with a responsibility for monitoring how local services are planned and delivered in order to ensure Doncaster’s children and young people are looked after properly, kept safe and protected from harm.

This information is mainly for service providers, practitioners and other professionals but it is hoped that parents/carers, children and young people will also find the pages useful..

The Doncaster Safeguarding Children Board was set up as part of wider children’s services reforms outlined in Every Child Matters and the Children Act 2004.

If you think that a child is being abused or neglected please contact Doncaster Council's Child Protection Service.

 The DSCB Annual Reports and Constitution are available below for download

Threshold Process and Procedures -Continuum of Need - Referral and Assessment Pathways

All Doncaster practitioners must ensure they use the Threshold Process and Procedures - Continuum of Need Referral and Assessment Pathways as below.

Pathway to Provision

The Pathway to Provision is to support practitioners in identifying children, young people and/or family's level of need and to enable the most appropriate referrals to access provisions.

Please see below for the Pathway to Provision document

The Doncaster Safeguarding Children Board (DSCB) and the agencies it represents are committed to the continuous improvement of joint working arrangements to safeguard children and promote their welfare.

Effective joint working arrangements are supported by legislation, national policy and guidance, local protocols, policies and procedures and guidance. It is inevitable that at times there will be professional differences and whilst this is accepted, it is essential that such differences do not adversely affect the outcomes for children and young people. Professional differences should be resolved in a constructive and timely manner. This protocol provides a process for resolving such professional differences.

Differences could arise in a number of areas of multi-agency working as well as within single agency working.

At no time must professional differences detract from ensuring that the child is safeguarded. The child's welfare and safety must remain paramount throughout and professional differences should not impede the progress of case working.

The Resolving Professional Differences Protocol is applicable to all DSCB agencies, including the voluntary, community and faith sectors.

Please see document below for the protocol for Resolving Professional Differences.