Bradford Safeguarding Children Board

The Bradford Safeguarding Children Board (BSCB) continues to provide the procedural framework for all partnership work to keep children safe within Bradford and fulfils its statutory responsibility around quality assurance and training. The role of the Board:

Sets the procedural framework for all partnership work to keep children safe within Bradford
Fulfils its statutory responsibility for ensuring that staff receive multi-agency training to support them in their work
Ensures that agencies are held to account for their work and that there is a learning and improvement framework in place to ensure that serious case reviews and other challenge and learning processes are effective.
Conducts a multi-agency review of every child death in the District, carried out by the Child Death Overview Panel.
In addition, BSCB plays a role in supporting and planning innovative partnership responses to safeguarding children challenges, such as the establishment of the multi-agency CSE Hub.
If you have concern that a child is being harmed as a result of abuse or neglect, you must not keep these concerns to yourself.

KEEPING CHILDREN SAFE IS EVERYONE'S RESPONSIBILITY.

In the Bradford district, these are the numbers that you can ring for advice and to make a referral:

During office hours (8.30am - 5pm Monday to Thursday, 4.30pm on Friday) call Children's Social Services Initial Contact Point - 01274 437500

At all other times, Social Services Emergency Duty Team - 01274 431010

If you have reason to believe that a child is at IMMEDIATE RISK OF HARM, contact the police on 999

For all general enquires, please contact Children's Specialist Services on 01274 435600

You need to ensure that you speak to the appropriate organisations who can listen to and record your concern, and then take appropriate action.