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Annual report and plan

The current report is one of the last written by the Area Child Protection Committee (ACPC).

The Government has replaced the ACPC with a new statutory Local Safeguarding Board (LSB) called the North Somerset Safeguarding Children Board (NSSCB).

This was a recommendation of the Laming Report from the Victoria Climbie Inquiry to strengthen the current child protection network.

This reform will hopefully herald a new era where child protection and the well-being of vulnerable children is given a much higher priority both locally and nationally.

In the past year a lot of important inter-agency child protection work has taken place in North Somerset.

This has come against the backdrop of a significant increase in workload and in the numbers of children placed on the child protection register.

However, whilst much has been achieved there remains a lot more work to do.

The view our latest annual report and plan download our ACPC Annual Report and Safeguarding Boad Business Plan document.