Information for practitioners
You’ll find key information, guidance, and best practice to support your role under the Practitioner tab. As a starting point take a look at the Guidance and Protocols section for agreed principles and standards for working with children or young people in Leeds.
Practitioners
Find out about the LSCP
Leeds Safeguarding Children Partnership (LSCP) leads and coordinates multi‑agency arrangements to protect children, ensuring all local organisations understand and fulfil their safeguarding responsibilities. It sets the strategic direction, culture, and priorities for safeguarding across Leeds and provides joint oversight of how well partners work together to keep children safe.
Within The Partnership tab you can find the LSCP's annual report and multi‑agency arrangements.
The Partnership
Keep your skills up to date with training
The LSCP provides a series of multi-agency safeguarding learning and development opportunities including core training, additional topic-based webinars, as well as events.
Book yourself on to the Introduction to Safeguarding Children training. This is seen as a minimum requirement for all people working within settings which work with or have regular contact with children and young people.
Our learning offer changes each quarter with webinars on safeguarding subjects delivered by experts from across the partnership. Keep checking back to the website and book yourself on any relevant training to ensure that you're keeping your skills and awareness up to date.
Training
Third Sector Safeguarding Group
If your role is within the Third Sector ( eg; Charity, voluntary, community group, faith or sports sectors) join our Third Sector Safeguarding Group.
Safeguarding can be complex, and organisations often face similar challenges. The group provides a space to share practical ideas, learning, resources, and solutions, helping organisations improve their own policies and practice.
The group acts as a bridge between the sector and the LSCP through:
- sharing messages, updates, and expectations from the LSCP across the third sector
- It brings back the experiences and voices of third sector organisations, and importantly, the children and young people they support, to inform LSCP priorities and decision-making
The group meets quarterly. Come along to our next meeting.
Third Sector Safeguarding Group
Are the safeguarding lead for your organisation?
The designated safeguarding officer has the lead role for safeguarding within an organisation. If this is your role you will have additional responsibilities such as writing and updating your safeguarding policy, undertaking a section 11 audit and you will be the main contact for concerns about children.
Within the "Your organisation" section you'll find lots of helpful information for you in this role.
Safeguarding in your organisation