What is the Brent Safeguarding Children Partnership (BSCP)?

The Children and Social Work Act 2017, requires the three safeguarding partners (Local Authority, Police and Health) to make arrangements to work together with relevant agencies, as they consider appropriate, to safeguard and protect the welfare of children in the area.

The Brent Safeguarding Childrens Partnership (BSCP) operates at a strategic level and is the statutory multi-agency partnership that has a core objective to coordinate local work in Brent to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. It also ensures the effectiveness of what the partnership member organisations do individually and together.

Whilst the BSCP has a role in coordinating and ensuring the effectiveness of work to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, it is not accountable for the partnership member organisation’s operational work. Each safeguarding partner organisation retains its own existing lines of accountability for their services.