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What is the Doncaster Safeguarding Children Board?
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people requires effective coordination in every local area. For this reason the Children Act (2004) set out a statutory requirement that every local authority must establish a Local Safeguarding Children Board. In October 2005 the Doncaster Safeguarding Children Board had its first meeting and outlined its key roles and responsibilities as guided by the Children Act (2004).
The Doncaster Safeguarding Children Board is the key statutory mechanism for agreeing how organisations working with children and young people cooperate to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people in Doncaster.
The core objectives of the Doncaster Safeguarding Children Board as outlined in the Children Act (2004) are:
to co-ordinate what is done by each person or body represented on the Board for the purposes of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in the area of the authority;
to ensure the effectiveness of what is done by each such person or body for that purpose.
… or in other words – the Doncaster Safeguarding Children Board monitors how local services for children and young people are planned and delivered in Doncaster.
What does the Doncaster Safeguarding Children Board do?
To deliver the objectives set out above, the Doncaster Safeguarding Children Board has the following responsibilities:
To develop or update policies and procedures for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
To contribute to the planning of services.
To communicate the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people.
To plan and deliver multi-agency training.
To undertake reviews of serious cases.
To review child deaths and coordinate responses to unexpected child deaths.
To monitor and evaluate how well agencies work to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
The DSCB Team
To ensure the effective functioning and to support the work of the DSCB, a specialist team has been formed.
Roger Thompson, Chair DSCB
Dawn Orton, Manager DSCB
Tel: 01302 734279
Email: Dawn.orton@doncaster.gov.uk
Jean Staniforth, Training Manager
Tel: 01302 734215
Email: Jean.staniforth@doncaster.gov.uk
Val Cadwallander-Willoughby, Development Manager
Tel: 01302 734230
Email: Val.Cadwallander-willoughby@doncaster.gov.uk
Deborah Gore, Safeguarding Support Officer
Tel: 01302 734747
Email: Deborah.gore@doncaster.gov.uk
Ross Kellett, Administrator
Tel: 01302 734238
Email: Ross.kellett@doncaster.gov.uk
Sophie Ormshaw, Administrator
Tel: 01302 734214
Email: Sophie.ormshaw@doncaster.gov.uk
LADO Referrals now go directly to CMARAS
Tel: 01302 737748
In addition, the Doncaster Safeguarding Children Board receives support from representatives of its member agencies.
The document below shows the structure of the DSCB, the Membership and the Operational Team. This is a powerpoint document. If you need this document in a different format, please contact DSCB using the details at the bottom of the page.
The Doncaster Safeguarding Children Board postal address is as follows:
Doncaster Safeguarding Children Board
Wellbeck Room
Mary Woollett Centre
Danum Road
Doncaster
DN4 5HF
Email: dscb@doncaster.gov.uk
