About H&F Local Safeguarding Children Partnership
Hammersmith and Fulham Local Safeguarding Children Partnership (LSCP) consists of three Lead Safeguarding Partners (LSP’s) these are named as:
- The Chief Officer of Police
- The Chief Executive of the Local Authority and
- The Chief Executive of the local Integrated Care Board (ICB).
In addition, and in line with Working Together 2023, we have three Delegated Safeguarding Partners (DSP’s). These are named as:
- Executive Director of People’s Services, Hammersmith and Fulham Council
- Chief Nursing Officer, North West London Integrated Care Board (ICB)
- Detective Chief Superintendent and BCU Commander, Central West BCU
The LSCP is not a public body under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and therefore is not obliged to respond to FOI requests.
Our priorities are:
H&F LSCP are in the process of reviewing their priorities. These will be updated and published by April 2025.
Welcome from the Hammersmith and Fulham Safeguarding Partners:
Hammersmith and Fulham LSCP have recently reviewed their Arrangements as set out in Working Together 2023. As part of this review, we have recently said goodbye to our Independent Chair, Mike Howard who provided excellent leadership during his period as Chair. To ensure that we continue to have a strong layer of check and challenge, we have recently appointed an Independent Scrutineer who will be assisting in analysing and reviewing specific areas of practice. We continue to work with our delegated safeguarding partners in the Local Authority, the Metropolitan Police and the North West London Integrated Care Board. Education is our fourth member, as we look to grow our partnership as set out in the Working Together 2023 guidance.
We are also pleased to have several different organisations and agencies who make up our partnership and who are detailed on our website.
In Hammersmith and Fulham, we strongly promote that safeguarding children is everybody’s responsibility, and that children can be best safeguarded from abuse and neglect if agencies communicate, share information appropriately and work well together. To ensure that this happens, we work together in partnership with many different service providers, agencies and sectors across the community. We do this in a number of ways, including ensuring that they follow procedures and guidance based on good practice, that they are well informed and able to access good quality training on a wide range of child safety issues.
The Hammersmith and Fulham LSCP work hard to ensure the children and young people in the borough are kept safe and protected. This is achieved through monitoring effectiveness of arrangements and coordinating what is in place locally.
We want families to be resilient, healthy and safe and to live in communities that are also safe. We want children to attain the skills that they need at schools and colleges so that they grow up to be independent and productive. We want children and young people driving our local growth and engaging in the plans we make and the services we deliver.
This website is a resource for children, young people and their families, as well as practitioners who are supporting them. Some of the information we need to publish in line with statutory guidance. Practitioners can use the link on the website to book our multi-agency training courses as well as access reports and other practice guidance.