New Multi-agency Safeguarding Arrangements

 

Introduction

The Children and Social Work Act 2017 replaced LSCBs with new local safeguarding arrangements, led by the three named statutory safeguarding partners (local authorities, chief officers of police, and integrated care boards (health)). The three partners formed the Wirral Safeguarding Children Partnership (WSCP) in 2019 as the statutory body for the new arrangements.

The publication of Working Together to Safeguarding Children 2023, required local arrangements to be updated in light of national reforms. The WSCP’s updated arrangements are published in the document above.