In Slough, the Slough Safeguarding Adults Board (SSAB) and the Local Safeguarding Children partnerships statutory duties are delivered through safeguarding partnership arrangements. We have revised our arrangements in the summer of 2025 and are now beginning the process of delivering our safeguarding partnership responsibilities through two separate safeguarding boards, one for children and one for adults. This follows a review of our governance structures and reflects the views of partner members.
Work is underway and new documents will be posted on this page in the coming months.
New Statutory guidance Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 has been published December 15th 2023
Below key documents;
The guidance document Working Together to Safeguard children 2023
Working Together 2023 summary_of_changes
Working Together 2023 Cross Ministerial letter
Our current partnership arrangements.
Our partnership arrangements align our duties under the Care Act 2014 , the Children Act 2004 and the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.
The terms of reference of the executive group is on the link below.
Terms of reference of executive group
The local partnership arrangements are described below:
Safeguarding partnership arrangements
We have several groups organised to deliver our priorities. Click on the link below for our structure chart;
Structure Chart
We collaborate with safeguarding partnerships across Berkshire around;
- Policy and procedures; carried out by the Pan Berkshire policy and procedures group
- The Pan Berkshire child exploitation forum
- The Pan Berkshire Section 11 Panel (Monitoring compliance of individual agencies to Section 11 of the Children Act 2004)
In June 2023 we began revising how we monitor the effectiveness of partnership working and agreed on This paper.
We are currently revising this process with an update expected in the summer of 2025.
The partnership is made up of the following agencies:
- Slough Children First including Exploitation and Youth Justice Team
- Thames Valley Police
- Schools and colleges
- Frimley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)
- HCRG (Public Health Nursing provider)
- Frimley Health Foundation Trust
- Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
- South Central Ambulance Services
- National Probation Service
- Health Watch
Slough Borough Council is represented as follows:
- Adult Social Care
- Housing
- Early Help and Early Years
- Young People Service
- Community safety team
- Drug and alcohol commissioning service
For specific enquiries please see below.
Contact Information
E-mail the business unit on
safeguardingboards@slough.gov.uk