About us

The Gloucestershire NHS Integrated Care Board, Constabulary and Local Authority have a shared and equal duty, under Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 Statutory Guidance (WT2023), to ensure that collectively their own organisations as a whole and any agency with a function relating to children, referred to as Relevant Agencies, operating in the county work together effectively to keep children safe.

To contact the GSCP Business Unit please email GSCP@gloucestershire.gov.uk  

A member of the GSCP team will respond to your email within two working days. Response times may be longer during busy periods and over bank holidays. 

Please be aware that the GSCP do not work directly with children or families. If you are concerned for the immediate safety of a child or an adult please call 999. 

If you are concerned for a child’s welfare please contact the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) 

If you have concerns regarding professional conduct please contact the Allegations Management Team via amadmin@gloucestershire.gov.uk 

To view Gloucestershire’s policies and procedures, including our  escalation   procedure, please view our procedures manual.  

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Multi-Agency Safeguarding Curriculum Under ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023’ the local safeguarding partnership and their designated relevant agencies, must ensure that effective arrangements are in place to disseminate and learn from safeguarding reviews and other activity locally and nationally.

The multi-agency curriculum on offer through the GSCP Business Unit offers a range of learning opportunities in the form of virtual and face to face training modules and bespoke.


 

Multi-Agency Safeguarding Curriculum Under ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023’ the local safeguarding partnership and their designated relevant agencies, must ensure that effective arrangements are in place to disseminate and learn from safeguarding reviews and other activity locally and nationally.

The multi-agency curriculum on offer through the GSCP Business Unit offers a range of learning opportunities in the form of virtual and face to face training modules and bespoke.


 

We aim to ensure that all children in Gloucestershire are safe in the schools or academies they attend. When DSLs or DDSLs in maintained schools, academies, independent, FE and sixth form colleges regularly attend training, our experienced trainers are able to offer them ongoing support and advice.

Our safeguarding in education training is very well regarded.


GSEP annual summary of activity


 

We aim to ensure that all children in Gloucestershire are safe in the schools or academies they attend. When DSLs or DDSLs in maintained schools, academies, independent, FE and sixth form colleges regularly attend training, our experienced trainers are able to offer them ongoing support and advice.

Our safeguarding in education training is very well regarded.


GSEP annual summary of activity


 

Gloucestershire has a well-established CDOP that facilitates comprehensive multi-agency reviews of child deaths to better understand how and why children die.

All child deaths are considered through a safeguarding lens and consideration of local safeguarding arrangements.


 

Gloucestershire has a well-established CDOP that facilitates comprehensive multi-agency reviews of child deaths to better understand how and why children die.

All child deaths are considered through a safeguarding lens and consideration of local safeguarding arrangements.