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The local safeguarding board replaces the area child protection committee. This statutory board has a remit which covers:
The 2010-11 annual report for the South Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Board is now available to download.
The Training Strategy has been developed by SGSCB Training Sub-group and is now available to download. It sets out the strategic priorities for inter-agency training from April 2011 until April 2012. All SGSCB training is developed and delivered by the training Pool - an inter-agency group of safeguarding trainers and experienced practitioners.
The SGSCB Integrated Supervision Policy has been published on the Guidance, protocols, policies and plans page. This policy has been produced by the South Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Board because supervision is a key factor in better safeguarding. It is intended to provide an overarching supervision policy framework for all staff working in multi agency organisations across South Gloucestershire children’s services, acknowledging that many of them have already existing and effective supervision processes in place. It is not intended to replace those but to reinforce them and to extend sound principles and good practice in all children’s services.
The new Child Protection training programme will be launched April 2011. There are a few important changes. SGSCB training programme has been revised to reflect the new learning outcomes from Working Together to Safeguard Children 2010. All staff accessing this training must have completed agency based child protection as part of their induction. The following is the updated requirement and training on offer.