Sefton SCP Business Unit Team

Sefton Safeguarding Children Partnership Business Team:

Sefton Safeguarding Children Partnership is supported by staff within the business unit, comprising of:

Tracey Overs, Interim Sefton SCP Manager

Donna Atkinson, Sefton SCP Administrator & Communications Officer

Louise Roberts, Sefton SCP Learning & Development Officer

Natalie Howell, Sefton SCP Performance & Improvement Officer

Elle Morris, Sefton SCP Apprentice Administrator

If you wish to contact a member of our team, please email SSCP@sefton.gov.uk. 

Sefton SCP
Magdalen House
Trinity Road, Bootle
L20 3NJ

Sefton Safeguarding Children Partnership (SSCP) - Multi-Agency Safeguarding Arrangements

Sefton Safeguarding Children Partnership (SSCP) is a statutory body established by the Children and Social Work Act (2017). SSCP replaced the previous Sefton Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB). SSCP is a multi-agency partnership of organisations who agree how to work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. SSCP is led by the three statutory safeguarding partners of the Local Authority, Merseyside Police and Integrated Care System (replacing Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs)).

National Changes to Local Safeguarding Children Boards

Working Together to Safeguard Children (DfE) is statutory guidance.  The new guidance supports key changes put into law by The Children and Social Work Act 2017 which replaces LSCBs with new local safeguarding arrangements.

Sefton's Multi-agency Safeguarding Children Arrangements

The Safeguarding Partners are the Local Authority; Police and Integrated Care System (replacing CCG) operating in the Sefton area. These three Safeguarding Partners are charged with supporting and enabling local organisations and agencies to work together in a system where: 

• children are safeguarded and their welfare promoted
• partner organisations and agencies collaborate, share and co-own the vision for how to achieve improved outcomes for  vulnerable children
• there is early identification and analysis of new safeguarding issues and emerging threads

Click here to view Sefton SCP -  Multi-Agency Safeguarding Arrangements (2024)

Sefton SCP Strategic Plan 2024-2027 / Priorities

Sefton SCP Strategic Plan 2024-2027

The purpose of the Sefton SCP Strategic Plan is to set out the three strategic priorities for Sefton Safeguarding Children Partnership (SSCP) for the period 2024-2027, and how these will be achieved through the work of the partnership overseen by the relevant subgroups.  

Sefton SCP's ambition is to help the many people and organisations across the borough who care for and work with children and families - helping them to learn, work and succeed together.

Sefton SCP Annual Report 2022/23

Sefton SCP publishes an yearly report on the business of the partnership and effectiveness of the safeguarding arrangements.

View Sefton SCP Annual Report 2022-2023

Learning from Reviews

In Sefton the partnership is committed to child centred practice and learning, and this is reflected in all our work. We believe this child centred approach is reflected in our approach to Rapid Reviews as they give an opportunity for the partnership to learn about every child and to understand events from their unique experience to improve our partnership working.

Safeguarding reviews are undertaken to learn from past events and consolidate understanding about what is working well and what presents challenges to organisations, working with children and families in Sefton.  Central to all Sefton's reviews will be a focus on trying to understand the journey of events from the child's perspective.

Sefton SCP will determine when to trigger a Rapid Review process or another appropriate alternative case review process.

Sefton SCP has a procedure which sets out the Pathway for Rapid Reviews and Local Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews (LCSPRs):

Sefton SCP Rapid Reviews & Local Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews PATHWAY

REFERRAL FORM for Serious Child Safeguarding Case or Request for Reflective Review by PRG (Appendix A)

Sefton SCP has a sub group (Practice Review Group) which oversees and quality assures reviews undertaken by the partnership, and provides advice on whether the criteria for conducting a review have been met.

Sefton SCP have provided a leaflet for families explaining what a Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review (LCSPR) is and what to expect if one is undertaken on their child/family.  CLICK HERE to download leaflet.

Learning & Improvement Framework (LIF)

Safeguarding Partnerships should maintain a local learning and improvement framework which is shared across local organisations who work with children and families. This framework should enable organisations to be clear about their responsibilities, to learn from experience and improve services as a result.

Click to view the Sefton LIF

• Sefton SCP Learning & Improvement Framework (LIF)

Child Death Overview Panel (CDOP)

Merseyside CDOP

Child Death Overview Panels (CDOP) analyses child deaths, aged from new born up to eighteen years old and identifies any modifiable factors that could highlight areas for future improvement.

Merseyside Child Death Overview Panel (CDOP), formed in April 2011, involves all five Merseyside Safeguarding Partnerships, Knowsley, Liverpool, St. Helens, Sefton and Wirral.

The purpose of CDOP is to ensure a thorough comprehensive and multidisciplinary review of child deaths, to better understand how and why children in Merseyside die, and to use its findings to take action to prevent other deaths and improve the health and safety of our children.

Merseyside CDOP have produced a leaflet for parents/carers explaining what CDOP does when a child dies.

Further information on Merseyside CDOP, along with the published plan (2019) can be found on Liverpool Safeguarding Children Partnership's website link below. 

https://liverpoolscp.org.uk/scp/about-us/merseyside-child-death-overview-panel-cdop

Contact Details

CDOP Team
Gerard Majella Courthouse
Boundary Street
Liverpool
L5 2QD

Irene Wright, Merseyside CDOP Manager – 0151 233 1151
Helen Fleming-Scott, Merseyside CDOP Administrator – 0151 233 5412

Sefton SCP Structure