Wirral Safeguarding News
Together We Can Tackle Child Abuse Campaign
The Wirral Safeguarding Children Board is supporting the government's new ‘Together, we can tackle child abuse’ from the Department for Education. The campaign which is being rolled out nationally aims to encourage the public to report any concerns they many have in order to get help to children more quickly, as research shows that up to...
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Register Now for the 2016 Safeguarding Audits!
Registration for the Section 11 and Section 175 Safeguarding Audits is now open! What is Section 11/ 175? The WSCB is the key statutory body for co-ordinating and ensuring the effectiveness of arrangements to safeguard and promote the welfare of all children in Wirral. It is the duty of the...
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Safer Sleep for Baby Campaign
The Merseyside safe sleep campaign launched on the 14th December 2015. Merseyside’s five Safeguarding Children Boards, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral, came together to create the safe sleeping campaign to help deliver safer sleep messages across Merseyside. Safer Sleep for Baby is based around six simple steps, designed...
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Zero Tolerance to Domestic Abuse
The issue of children living with Domestic Violence and Abuse is now recognised as a matter for concern in its own right by both government and key children’s services agencies. Domestic Abuse includes any incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive or threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between those...
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Launch of the WSCB Website
The new website for the Wirral Safeguarding Children Board (WSCB) launched on the 1st April 2016. The website brings together a range of safeguarding information, news and resources for Wirral's children, young people, parents and carers and professionals into one place for the first time. The website allows profesisonals to access the latest...
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