Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Partnership
About
Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Partnership (GSCP) exists to promote and ensure the safety, health, welfare and wellbeing of children and young people countywide. The GSCP remain open to learning and improving in order to deal with the many challenges and opportunities presented by a rapidly changing world.
Working Together 2018 represents a significant milestone in the development of the GSCP's collective arrangements to safeguard children and young people in Gloucestershire. It places a ‘shared and equal duty’ on NHS Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group, Gloucestershire Constabulary and Gloucestershire County Council for local arrangements. The GSCP embrace those responsibilities and view this as a real opportunity to further embed child safeguarding considerations across their own agencies and the wider local partnership under the banner of the “Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Partnership” (GSCP).
The GSCP's published arrangements allow them to build on past practice but also to develop their own local approach. Learning from past incidents and embedding that learning within their organisations are matters that can now develop along local lines reflecting Gloucestershire's collective commitment towards a trauma informed and restorative approach to practice, informed by the learning from Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).
The Purpose of GSCP
The Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Partnership (GSCP) is responsible for co-ordinating what is done by each person or organisation represented on the Board for the purposes of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in Gloucestershire - and checking that what they do is effective. The Board functions include making sure safeguarding policies are in place; communicating the need to safeguard children; evaluating the effectiveness of what is done by Board partners to safeguard children; and making sure lessons are learnt from Serious Case Reviews. The GSCP also delivers, monitors and evaluates multi-agency training for a variety of frontline staff who work with children and young people.
The Executive of the Board is the committee that oversees the work of the sub groups, feeding information up to the larger Board. In the other direction, it takes information, ideas and concerns from the Board and considers how this should be actioned and which sub groups should be responsible. (Details of the GSCP Subgroups can be found by clicking the link to the left of this page).
What to do if you are worried about a child or young person
If you have an urgent safeguarding concern for a child or young person, please call MASH Front Door on 01452 426565 and select option 3.
If you wish to speak to the community social worker, please ring 01452 426565 and select option 2 where your request will be taken, and a community social worker will call you back. Alternatively, please send your request, email, and phone number to mashearlyhelp@gloucestershire.gov.uk
If you would like to speak to your local Early Help and Targeted Support Service, please call MASH Front Door on 01452 426565 and select option 4 where you will be transferred to the appropriate worker, or your details will be taken for a call back.
Safeguarding in Education
Please click on the links to find further information:
Traded services for education settings
Further documents can now be located on Traded services subscriber page of GCC Plus.
Please note that only schools subscribed to Traded Services for safeguarding will be able to access.
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