Plymouth Safeguarding Children Board

Serious Case Review into abuse at Little Ted’s Nursery

A detailed summary of a Serious Case Review into abuse by a worker at Little Ted’s Nursery has been published by the Plymouth Safeguarding Children Board.

For more information see our Serious Case Review into abuse at Little Ted’s Nursery press release.

Training course information

In response to suggestions from partner agencies, we have decided to create links on this page which will take you straight to the Plymouth Safeguarding Children Board training courses. Details of the courses can be found on the training courses page.

About Plymouth Safeguarding Children Board

We want to make sure that children and young people feel safe and cared for in Plymouth and hope that this website is useful to those who want to know more about the work of the Plymouth Safeguarding Children Board (PSCB).

Children can only be safeguarded properly if agencies work effectively together. Local Safeguarding Children Boards are designed to make sure that this happens. In Plymouth agencies who work together as members of the PSCB are:

• Plymouth City Council
• Devon and Cornwall Constabulary
• Devon and Cornwall Probation
• NHS Plymouth
• Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust
• Strategic Health Authority
• Connexions
• Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service (CAFCASS)
• Action for Children
• National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)
• City College, Plymouth
• Naval Personal and Family Welfare and Royal Marines Welfare
• Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue
• Church of England Diocesan Board
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Plymouth

We hope that children and young people, families and communities will use the website as well as professionals working with children.

The work of the PSCB contributes to the wider goals of improving the well being and safety of all children within the Plymouth area, these goals are known as the five 'Every Child Matters' outcomes:

• Being healthy
• Being safe
• Enjoying and achieving
• Making a positive contribution
• Achieving economic well being

Whilst contributing to all of the above goals, it is 'being safe' which is the main focus for the PSCB and its ongoing work programme.

What to do if you are worried a child is being abused

Visit our child protection pages for advice on what to do if you are worried about a child.

What do we do?

The PSCB has a responsibility to help children and young people to be safe and not be harmed.

It has a responsibility to monitor how well people work with children, young people and families helping children to stay safe.

It also has to ensure that staff and volunteers who work with children, young people and families are all working to the same rules or procedures and have training to help them to do their jobs as well as they can.

The PSCB has to write a plan that sets out what we are going to do to try and help children and young people stay safe and how we are going to do it. This plan is called the PSCB Annual Business Plan 2007 to 2010.

How do we do it?

The PSCB believes that we all have to work together in partnership and that children should be listened to. The PSCB believes that children should be safe and helped to do the best they can.

Agencies work together through an agreed membership structure to deliver a full work programme to meet the business objectives and priorities of the PSCB.

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