To enable agencies to work together and keep children and young people safe, Wigan Safeguarding Children Board was launched in April 2006. All organisations within Wigan who work with children and young people have a responsibility to safeguard them. A number of those organisations have a legal responsibility to safeguard children and are members of the Board.
Wigan Safeguarding Children Board will ensure that its agencies work together to “co-ordinate the assessment, planning, interventions and review of children and young people with a set of complex needs and compromised parenting or caring, in order to ensure they are safe and their welfare is promoted”. The key aim of Wigan Safeguarding Children Board is to ensure that all children and young people are kept safe in our community.
Wigan’s Safeguarding Children Board oversees the work of the traditional child protection system and the new Change for Children and Young People System, along with other safety issues, such as road safety and child protection in schools. The Board therefore oversees a wide range of matters related to keeping children safe.
The Wigan Safeguarding Children Board has produced a three year Business Plan, which includes a range of information about protecting children. The Board have produced revised Child Protection procedures together with the NSPCC (External link)and are currently in the process of producing all related procedures.
Wigan Safeguarding Children Board believes that all forms of physical violence against children are wrong.
The Safeguarding Board encourages and supports parents and carers to use positive parenting techniques, without resorting to physical chastisement, such as smacking.
Discipline is a very important part of raising children well and the Wigan Safeguarding Board encourages parenting to use positive discipline methods which help their children to become confident and respectful young people. There is advice about bringing up your children in the Wigan Safe Parenting Handbook and also advice can be found on the Parentline website (External link).
Further information can be found by clicking on the links below.
