Wolverhampton Safeguarding Children Board is an inter-agency forum for:

• Coordinating the work done by the various agencies to safeguard children and promoted their welfare.
• Ensuring that this work is carried out effectively.

The Board has to ensure that clear local procedures are in place to inform and assist anyone interests or as part of their professional role where they have concerns about a child.

Safeguarding Board Structure:

What is meant by Safeguarding Children?

• Protecting children from maltreatment
• Preventing the impairment of children's health or development
• Ensuring that children are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and
• Undertaking that role to engage those children to have optimum life chances and enter adulthood successfully

For more information about Safeguarding visit the Wolverhampton Safeguarding Children's Board Website http://www.wolvesscb.org.uk/