The Department for Education and Skills' report Local SafeguardingChildren Boards: A Review of Progress, published last week, examines howthe boards progressed between September and December 2006. Researchersfound some boards were waiting to secure a funding agreement betweenpartners for 2006/07 even though the financial year had begun. Thereport recommends adequate funding for boards.
David Hawker, chair of the safeguarding children board and director ofchildren's services at Brighton & Hove City Council, agreed with thefinding: "This is in the Government's hands, it should give a grant tolocal safeguarding children boards.
"Some boards are reasonably well resourced, others are on a shoestring."
Other recommendations include clarifying the relationship between boardsand children's trusts. Bob Cook, principal manager of policy andstandards at children's charity Barnardo's, said: "It's important thatthere is clarity between the role of the partnership board and thesafeguarding board."
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