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29/08/2024
The Southwark Safeguarding Children Partnership and the Southwark Safeguarding Adults Board provide free multi-agency safeguarding training for all staff, volunteers and community leaders who work directly with children, parents and carers, and vulnerable adults in the borough.
Our multi-agency approach to training promot…
30/08/2024
If you believe a child or vulnerable adult is in immediate danger, contact the police on 999.
Are you worried about a child?
If you have concerns about a specific child, please contact the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) on 020 7525 1921 (weekday 9-5) or 020 7525 5000 (out of hours). You can also email them on MASH@southwark.gov.uk. The…
30/08/2024
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09/10/2024
What is website accessibility?
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the organisation responsible for developing web standards. The W3C states that: "Web accessibility means that websites, tools, and technologies are designed and developed so that people with disabilities can use them."
For a full definition, and to see what accessibility means …
07/08/2024
30/08/2024
About Us
During summer 2020 the Safeguarding Children Partnership and the Safeguarding Adults Board conducted surveys to help set the priorities for the period September 2020 to March 2022. In September 2020 the following priorities were agreed:
Southwark Safeguarding Children Partnership (SSCP):
Extra-Familial Harm
Mental Health
Neglect, in…
02/09/2024
About Us
Southwark Safeguarding Children Partnership’s and Adult Safeguarding Board’s primary objectives are to assure itself that local safeguarding arrangements and partners act to help and protect adults and children.
The partnership will hold agencies to account for their key safeguarding responsibilities, so that:
All those who work wit…
30/08/2024
Safeguarding Adults
We believe all adults at risk that are living in or visiting Southwark have the right to be safe and protected from harm. We will all work together...
06/12/2024
Safeguarding Children
30/08/2024
Safeguarding Children
Southwark Safeguarding Children Board has been replaced by Southwark Safeguarding Children Partnership.
30/08/2024
Policies & Procedures
Southwark Safeguarding Adults Board have formally adopted the London-Wide Adult Safeguarding Policy and Procedures...
30/08/2024
Policies & Procedures
In Southwark we follow the London Safeguarding Children Procedures, which give more detailed advice about how local services...
30/08/2024
Published Reviews
The Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR) programme is delivered by the University of Bristol. It is commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) on behalf of NHS England.
The programme aims to:
Support improvements in the quality of health and social care service delivery for people with learning disabilities.…
30/08/2024
Published Reviews
Under the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004, a domestic homicide review (DHR) must be carried out when the death of a person aged 16 or over has, or appears to have, resulted from violence, abuse or neglect by:(a) a person to whom he or she was related or with whom he or she was or had been in an intimate personal relatio…
30/08/2024
Published Reviews
Working Together 2023 sets out the purpose and process of Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews (formerly known as Serious Case Reviews). These reviews must be undertaken when:
Abuse or neglect of a child is known or suspected and
The child has died (including by suicide) or has been seriously harmed
The purpose of reviews …
30/08/2024
Published Reviews
During 2022-23,
Southwark Safeguarding Adults Board (SSAB) has a statutory duty to conduct a review when a person with care and support needs has died or experienced serious harm from abuse and / or neglect and there are concerns about how agencies have worked together. This is set out in the Care Act 2014 and is called a Safeguarding Ad…