1. DSCB Annual Report 2014-15 Children’s version
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DSCB Annual Report Children’s version
What does safeguarding mean?
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What does Doncaster Safeguarding Children’s Board do?
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Who is on the Doncaster Safeguarding Children’s Board?
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What do we want to achieve?
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What have we done so far?
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So,What are we proud of?

2. What does Safeguarding mean?
Protecting children from anything that causes them harm.
Making sure that children are healthy and are properly looked after.
Ensuring that children are growing up with safe and proper care.
Taking action to enable all children and young people to have the best outcomes
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3. What does Doncaster Safeguarding Children's Board do?
Work together with professionals to make sure you are safe and your welfare is promoted in Doncaster.
Make sure the best services are there to keep you all safe.
Look into any concerns of safety of children and make sure everybody knows what to do.
Make sure that adults who work with children are safe, trained properly and able to do their job very well.
Keep up with any new Laws, research, information and reports and make sure we help adults learn from things that go well and things that don’t go so well and help change so we can do things better.

4. Who is on the Doncaster Safeguarding Children's Board?
Do you know what all these agencies do? If not, ask an adult, i.e. teacher, social worker. They all
want to keep you safe from harm.
Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council (DMBC)
Doncaster Children’s Services Trust (DCST)
South Yorkshire Police (SYP)
South Yorkshire National Probation Service
Youth Offending Service (YOS)
Doncaster Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)
South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw NHS England
Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS
Foundation Trust
CAFCASS
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospital Foundation Trust
St Leger Homes
Primary, secondary and special schools
Doncaster College
2 Lay Members
The South Yorkshire Community Rehabilitation
Company Ltd
Doncaster Safeguarding Adults Board
South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service
HM Prison Service
Who can help you out?

5. Professionals
Teachers
Doctors
Social workers
School Nurses
Health visitors
Nurses
Police officers
Housing officers
Tutors
Youth Offending officers
Fireman
Prison Officers
Probation officers
Young people
Public health

6. What do we want to achieve?
We want the very best for all children/young people in Doncaster, so we set the following targets:
1)To have an excellent Safeguarding Children Board which meets its legal responsibilities, helping to challenge professionals to make them better, and helps to improve learning
2)To have excellent safeguarding systems and practice
3)To make sure that Doncaster has effective arrangements for responding to safeguarding risks, finds problems early & supports to prevent problems to keep children safe
4)To ensure Doncaster SCB is visible by working with together with other partner agencies, social workers, parents, carers, children and young people

7. But what do we need to do more of?
What have we done so far?
Asking our partners to tell us how they are doing and asking them about this.
Set up a Faith and Culture group to promote the welfare of children from faith groups and other cultures.
Making sure our Early Help services are right for you and your family.
Making sure Children whom need protecting are protected.
Making sure placement stability for Looked after Children continues to improve.
Monitoring services to support children and families whom experience domestic abuse.
Monitoring Child Sexual Exploitation in Doncaster to make sure you are all safe.
Looking at children whom go missing to try and stop this from happening.
Monitoring any allegations made about professionals.
Learning all the time, from things that have gone well and from those that haven’t gone so well so we can keep improving the practice of adults whom support you.
Deliver training to adults to support you to help keep you safe.
But what do we need to do more of?

8. We are proud of: Working together to learn how to do things better
Being able to ask the right questions to make people think about how to do things better
Asking people outside of Doncaster how are we doing and putting in changes to get better.
Looking at what we do, on a regular basis and learning from this, this helps to improve and keep improving
Training – we have some training courses for different professionals i.e. teachers, school nurses, doctors, police and social workers that tells us we are helping them to learn more to support children

9. We need to do more of: Talking and listening to you
Making sure you and your family gets support earlier, this is called Early Help
Helping adults to understand what support is the right support
Understand how good the support for children is, and can we make it better still.
Making sure what we learn does make a difference to you.
Making sure Doncaster children and families know about us and what we do.