The Lambeth Safeguarding Children Board has the following Sub-groups:

Learning and Improvement Sub-group

The LSCB Learning and Improvement Sub-group co-ordinates actions to learn from experience and improve services to safeguard children.  It supports the delivery of the Lambeth Learning and Performance Improvement Framework.

The Sub-group’s core objectives are to:

• support the Board to create a learning culture where good practice becomes standard practice;
• co-ordinate learning and improvement activities undertaken by each person or body represented on the Sub-group for the purposes of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in the area, and
• ensure the effectiveness of the learning and improvement activities undertaken by each such person or body for those purposes.

Meeting Dates and Minutes

Child Exploitation Sub-group

The LSCB Child Exploitation Sub-group co-ordinates the response to Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) in Lambeth.

The Sub-group’s core objectives are to:

• Deliver Lambeth’s CSE Strategy.
• Promoting understanding of the nature and extent of CSE in the borough.
• Raise awareness and disseminate good practice relating to CSE within agencies and communities.

 Meeting Dates and Minutes

Community Engagement Sub-group

The LSCB Community Engagement Sub-group leads on multi agency communication for safeguarding children and child protection.

The Sub-group’s core objective is to co-ordinate the LSCB’s safeguarding message and plan the delivery of key messages to the wider community including all partners, voluntary groups, schools, faith groups, independent schools etc.

Meeting Dates and Minutes

Serious Case Review Sub-group

The LSCB Serious Case Review Sub-group’s role is to consider if cases referred to it meet the threshold criteria for Serious Case Review’s (SCRs) as set out in Regulation 5 of the Local Safeguarding Children Boards Regulations 2006 as amplified in the Guidance on SCRs in Working Together 2015 and to oversee agreed case reviews.

Meeting Dates

Child Death Overview Panel (CDOP) Sub-group

All LSCBs are required by law to have suitable CDOP arrangements in place.

The main aim of the CDOP's work is to understand the reasons for a child's death and to consider any wider lessons to be learnt about how best to safeguard and promote children's welfare in the future. In reviewing child deaths, CDOP uses whatever information is available from all those involved in the care of a child both before and immediately after the death and from other sources such as the Coroner.

The arrangements include:

• A rapid response by a group of key professionals who come together for the purpose of enquiring into and evaluating each unexpected death of a child
• An overview of all child deaths (under 18 years, excluding those babies who are still born)
• Identifying any wider public health or safety concerns arising from a particular death or pattern of deaths
• Reporting to the LSCB any patterns or trends in the local data including an annual report

Terms of Reference - Child Death Overview Panel

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Lambeth CDOP Annual Report

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Meeting Dates