Welcome to RCSCB website
'Working Together to ensure all Children in Redcar and Cleveland are appropriately safeguarded'
Redcar and Cleveland Local Safeguarding Children Board (RCSCB) covers the local authority area of Redcar & Cleveland.
The RCSCB was established from April 2010 when the former South Tees Local Safeguarding
Children Board was disaggregated into 2 separate Boards. All Local Authorities have Safeguarding Children Boards to ensure organisations co-operate fully to safeguard
and promote the welfare of children. Safeguarding Children Boards are also tasked with
producing an Annual Report for the Children and Young People's Trust Board scrutinising and
detailing the effectiveness of work to safeguard children.
Latest News
South Tees Safeguarding Children Partnership Goes Live
The South Tees Safeguarding Children Partnership (STSCP) became operational on 29 September 2019 and replaces the Local Safeguarding Boards in Middlesbrough and Redcar & Cleveland.
The STSCP aims to support and enable local organisations and agencies to work together in a system which places the child at the heart of the process with a key focus on:
- Improving Practice
- Enhancing Outcomes for Children and Their Families
For further information on the STSCP please go to: https://middlesbrough.gov.uk/children-families-and-safeguarding/south-tees-safeguarding-children-partnership
Launch of the South Tees Multi Agency Children's Hub (MACH)
The new children’s hub involving Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council and Middlesbrough Council First Contact and Early Help Teams went live on Monday 3 June 2019.
South Tees Multi-Agency Children’s Hub (MACH) provides a single point of contact across the whole of the South Tees area for anyone seeking advice, guidance, support and direct services.
It will include NHS South Tees Clinical Commissioning Group as a partner alongside Cleveland Police, NHS Tees Esk and Wear Valleys Foundation Trust, NHS South Tees Foundation Trust and Harrogate District Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The hub will ensure children and families receive the right services, at the right level, at the right time. Opening hours will be Monday to Thursday from 8.30am-5pm and Friday 8.30am-4.30pm - email
southteesmach@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk or call 01642 130700.
Outside of these hours the emergency duty team can be contacted on: 01642 524552
Please see the attached Leaflet for further information.
Neglect Strategy 2018-2025
The RCSCB Neglect Strategy - Supporting the Prevention and Reduction of Child and Adolescent Neglect.
RCSCB Neglect Strategy.pdf
Neglect Strategy Flyer.pdf
The 2018 Learning and Improving Practice Framework is now available
Learning and improving practice Framework June 2018
Wood Report: Review of the role and function of Local Safeguarding Children Boards
Alan Wood's review of LSCBs, their role and functions, can be accessed here along with the Government's response.
