Welcome to the web-pages of the Wakefield and District Safeguarding Children Board 

What is the Wakefield and District Safeguarding Children Board?

The Wakefield and District Safeguarding Children Board was set up as a statutory body in 2005 in compliance with Section 13 of The Children Act 2004 and replaced the former Wakefield Area Child Protection Committee (ACPC).

A Safeguarding Children Board is a partnership of all of the relevant statutory, voluntary and community agencies involved in safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all of Wakefield’s children and young people. Safeguarding Children Boards are not part of a council’s social care department, although the social care department will always be a key partner and member of the Safeguarding Children Board.

The Safeguarding Children Board is the key statutory mechanism for agreeing how the relevant children’s organisations in Wakefield cooperate to safeguard and promote the well-being of children and young people’s and for ensuring the effectiveness of what they do.

The Wakefield and District Safeguarding Children Board exists to safeguard and promote the welfare of all Wakefield’s children and young people.

It does this by:

• Co-ordinating the safeguarding work of member agencies
• Monitoring, evaluating and when necessary challenging the effectiveness of the work
• Advising on ways to improve safeguarding performance

In order to:

• Protect children and young people from maltreatment
• Prevent impairment of their health and development
• Ensure that they grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care
• Enable them to have optimum life chances and enter adulthood successfully

Our vision

The Wakefield and District Safeguarding Children Board strives to keep children and young people in the Wakefield District safe from harm.

See the links below for more information about the work of the Wakefield and District Children's Safeguarding Board.