Safeguarding children
Requesting support from Children's Services
Information for professionals. Request advice by phone or submit an electronic Request for Support Form to the MASH Social Work Team, or Children's Services Support Hub or Children Family Wellbeing to request support or raise safeguarding issues. Also includes information about Lancashire's Continuum of Need.
Family safeguarding
Information about this new approach to providing help for families in need.
Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO)
The LADO service deals with allegations of abuse made against people who work with children.
Children’s Safeguarding Assurance Partnership (CSAP)
The CSAP (previously the Lancashire Safeguarding Children Board) has a range of roles and statutory functions including developing local safeguarding policy and procedures and scrutinising local arrangements.
Neglect and the Graded Care Profile 2 (GCP2)
Apply for a GCP2 training place.