About Us
The Hertfordshire Safeguarding Children Board has an independent
role to challenge partner organisations. It has an independent chair
and membership is made up of senior managers from partner organisations.
Partner organisations are under a legal obligation to support the board and have nominated representatives (senior managers) who can speak with authority and hold their organisation to account.
The HSCB does not deliver services directly to children, young people or their families.
Safeguarding Children Board Organisational Structure
New Partnership
with the HSCB.
Partnership working to improve outcomes for children and young people will have a new framework from July 2011, with a Health and Well-Being Board established as a county-wide commissioning body for health and care services for adults and children. This change is part of the Coalition Government’s NHS changes. Earlier this year the Department for Education announced that Children’s Trusts were no longer a statutory requirement. In the light of this, the Hertfordshire Children’s Trust Partnership ceased in June 2011, and its work (including the Children & Young People’s Plan YPP for 2011/12) will be taken forward through the Hertfordshire Health and Well-Being Board, which will include new commissioning and planning arrangements for Children’s Services.
The Children and Young People’s Plan (CYPP) has been refreshed for one more year and continues to focus on two key areas for improvement: safeguarding children and young people and narrowing the gap between children from the poorest families and all children. With the transition to new arrangements under the Health and Wellbeing Board, the emphasis this year has been to adopt a light touch to refreshing the action plans, rather than a complete re-write; ensuring that the CYPP remains a strategic document for Hertfordshire’s children’s services. Click here to view the draft 2011-12 Hertfordshire Children and Young People’s Plan.
Hertfordshire Children and Young People’s Plan. The HSCB has a statutory role in holding agencies on the Health & Well-Being Board to account for the effectiveness of their work on safeguarding.
Useful information:
- HSCB Business Plan 2011-12
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Revised Business Plan 2009/2011- Valid from July 2010
- Board member contacts
