Child Trafficking

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• Child Trafficking
• The role of the
• Local Safeguarding Children Board
• (LSCB)
• in combating
• Child Trafficking

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• Paul Hewitt - London Borough of Hounslow, Chair
  of Child Trafficking subgroup
• London Safeguarding Board

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Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCB)

• Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs)
  established by Children Act 2004
• LSCBs have a crucial role in monitoring the
  effectiveness of partner agencies Eileen Munro
  2011
• LSCBs must support partner agencies to adapt
  their practice and become more effective in
  safeguarding children

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Responsibilities and Duties

• The main responsibilities of the LSCB (Section 14
  Children Act 2004) are to
• Co-ordinate, and quality assure the safeguarding
  children activities of member agencies
• Munro states that Local Safeguarding Children
  Boards are
• Well placed to identify emerging problems
  through learning from practice and to oversee
  efforts to improve services in response.

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Role and Function

• LSCBs must
• Provide advice and guidance to partner agencies
  in relation to policies and procedures and
  practice.
• Provide organisations with the opportunity to
  attend training courses on safeguarding and
  promoting the welfare of children

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LSCB Framework

• LSCBs provide
• A framework for countering child trafficking
  within each locality
• P Polices, Procedures and Practice
• I Infrastructure
• E Education and Training
• S Standards Scrutiny and Evaluation

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Policies, Procedures Practice

• The LSCB has a particular responsibility to
  ensure that Policies, Procedures and Practice are
  integrated in relation to vulnerable groups of
  children (e.g. trafficked children)
• Trafficking Toolkit and Assessment Processes for
  managing risk in relation to child trafficking to
  be implemented and overseen by LSCB
• Protection plans in place for those children in
  danger as a result of being trafficked.
• (London Child Protection Procedures Part B
• Safeguarding Children at Risk of Exploitation
  through being trafficked).
• http//www.londoncp.co.uk/consultation/sg_traffick
  ed_ch.html

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Infrastructure Governance

• LSCBs bring partner agencies together to work
  collaboratively around safeguarding matters
• Sub Groups
• Every LSCB will have a multi-agency group to
  address vulnerable groups such as those at risk
  of trafficking, going missing or sexual
  exploitation.
• Main Board Meetings
• Having this infrastructure in place to hold
  together agencies in their commitment to
  vulnerable children is crucial in combating
  trafficking

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Education and Training

• Every LSCB will have a responsibility to provide
  multi-agency training on key safeguarding issues.
  (Working Together training).
• The most effective training in relation to child
  trafficking is not just awareness raising but
  multi-agency training with professionals coming
  together to learn about children at risk of being
  trafficked and the sharing of information.
• Supplemented by e-learning modules on child
  trafficking to raise awareness across the whole
  of the childrens workforce

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Standards, Quality Assurance Evaluation

• LCSBs have a responsibility to monitor and
  evaluate performance information relating to the
  key activities.
• In relation to child trafficking ensuring that
• National Referral Mechanism NRM referrals are
  consistently made and quality assured is a key
  standard for improving outomes for trafficked
  children.
• The collation and evaluation of data around child
  trafficking is particularly important for service
  planning, and strategic mapping of trends and
  patterns of abuse related to organised
  trafficking.

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• Questions Answers
• - Over to you.
• For further details please contact
  paul.hewitt_at_hounslow.gov.uk
• Mobile [phone]