The CSCB was set up as a statutory body in April 2006 in compliance with Section 13 of The Children Act 2004 and replaces the former Calderdale Area Child Protection Committee (ACPC).
It is a partnership of all of the relevant statutory, voluntary and community agencies involved in safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all of Calderdale’s children and young people.
It is the key statutory mechanism for agreeing how the relevant children’s organisations in Calderdale cooperate to safeguard and promote children and young people’s welfare and for ensuring the effectiveness of what they do.
The CSCB exists to safeguard and promote the welfare of all Calderdale’s children and young people. It does this by:
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Co-ordinating the safeguarding work of member agencies so that it is effective
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Monitoring, evaluating and when necessary, challenging the effectiveness of the work
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Advising on ways to improve safeguarding performance
In order to:
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Protect children and young people from maltreatment
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Prevent their impairment of health and development
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Ensure that they grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of sale and effective care
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Enable them to have optimum life chances and enter adulthood successfully
Vision Statement
For Calderdale to be a place where every child and
young person can thrive, be safe from harm and
maltreatment, be happy and have maximised life
chances to fulfil their potential, irrespective of
their background.
The CSCB website is the central contact point and
primary source of information for all safeguarding
matters in Calderdale.
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