About the Salford Safeguarding Children Board

SSCB is a multi-agency forum that holds shared responsibility in promoting and safeguarding the children of Salford. Keeping children safe from abuse or neglect, ensuring they grow up in an environment of safe and effective care, enabling them to have optimum life chances is everyone's business.

SSCB has a statutory responsibility to ensure this principle is embedded in the work of each key agency. SSCB members are senior representatives of key statutory agencies and others in Governance roles who have sufficient understanding and knowledge of safeguarding and welfare concerns to commit to agreed actions of their staff groups. SSCB allows for clear lines of accountability.

There are specific areas of focus:

To ensure all agencies working with children or in services impacting on the welfare of children have safe recruitment practices.
To provide an analysis and overview of Serious Case Reviews, ensuring lessons learned are devised into action plans and incorporated into agencies practice. Promoting safeguarding as a shared responsibility within agencies in Salford.
To influence the local planning and commissioning of children's services or services impacting on children's welfare and safety and ensure safeguarding and the promotion of children's welfare is taken into account.
To monitor the effectiveness of what is done in relation to safeguarding and promotion of children's welfare by partner agencies individually and collectively.

Members of the board

Salford Safeguarding Children Board (SSCB) is made up of members whose role and seniority enable them to commit their organisation/agency to the development and maintenance of effective inter-agency working to safeguard children and young people in Salford. Details of the agencies that make up the board are listed in the document below.

List of board members

Agency	Name	Job title
Independent	Sally Rees	Independent Chair, Salford Safeguarding Children Board
Child Death Overview Panel (CDOP)	Pamela Shelton	Chair of the Bolton, Wigan and Salford CDOP
Children and Family Court Advisory Support Services (CAFCASS)	Shabana Jamal	Head of Service
Salford City College	Thalia Bell-Taylor	Assistant Principal
Fiddlers Lane Community Primary School	Julie Carson	Head Teacher
New Park High School	Almut Bever-Warren	Head Teacher
St Ambrose Barlow High School	Marie Garside	Head Teacher
Greater Manchester Police	Wayne Miller	Superintendent
Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust	Marie Boles	Deputy Director of Contracts and Performance, Named Nurse for Child Protection
NHS Salford	Andrew Clough	Director of Clinical Professional Leadership
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust	Bev Tabernacle	Assistant Director of Nursing
Greater Manchester Probation Trust	Manjit Seale	Assistant Chief Executive
Salford City Council	Gani Martins	Assistant Director of Specialist Services
Salford City Council	Nick Page	Strategic Director of Children's Services
Salford CVS	Louise Murray	Deputy Chief Officer
Lay Member	Irfan Syed	Lay Member

Professional advisors to SSCB

Agency	Name	Job title
Salford City Council	Sharon Hubber	Head of Safeguarding Unit
Salford City Council	Eileen Buchan	Head of Integrated Youth and Support Services
Salford City Council	Lorraine Ashton	Principal Solicitor
NHS Salford	Melanie Hartley	Designated Nurse
NHS Salford	Post Vacant	Designated Doctor
NHS Salford	Post Vacant	GP Representative

Participant observer to SSCB

Agency	Name	Job title
Salford City Council	Margaret Morris	Councillor and Lead Member for Children's Services

Business support to SSCB

Agency	Name	Job title
Salford Safeguarding Children Board	David Barnes	SSCB Business Manager
Salford Safeguarding Children Board	Tiffany Slack	SSCB Performance Co-ordinator
Salford Safeguarding Children Board	Vivienne Bentley	SSCB Business Support