Ambitions and Priorities
Wandsworth Safeguarding Children Partnership (WSCP) is jointly led by the Police, Integrated Care Board and the Council. We are responsible for protecting children and young people in Wandsworth from harm, abuse, neglect and exploitation, and promoting their welfare.
Our ambitions
We want to ensure all young people in Wandsworth have a great future, where:
- Children are happy and have good opportunities to develop skills
- Children are safe both at home and in the communities where they live
- Children are enabled to live healthy and fulfilling lives
- Children receive a good education, suited to their individual needs, which supports them in staying safe and achieving their potential
- Looked after children feel safe, secure, cared for and happy in an environment where they can thrive and succeed
Our Priorities
Families First Social Care Reforms
This priority aligns with the national children’s social care reforms and the local Families First transformation programme. It supports a rebalancing towards early intervention, relationship-based practice, and a whole-family approach to preventing harm and reducing the need for statutory intervention.
Children not in school
This priority addresses the growing concern around children who are missing education, including those not on a school roll, persistently absent, or in unregistered settings. It seeks to improve identification, tracking, and coordinated multi-agency responses to safeguard this vulnerable group.
Anti-Racist Practice -Actions, Behaviour, and Culture across the Partnership and within all organisations.
This priority focuses on embedding anti-racist values across all levels of safeguarding work. It aims to challenge discriminatory practices, improve cultural competence, and ensure that children, families, and staff experience equitable treatment and outcomes regardless of race or ethnicity.
Thematic Focus ( 6-9 month focus)
A flexible, rotating priority that allows the partnership to deep-dive into specific areas of concern based on emerging need or learning from reviews. Each theme will run for 6–9 months to explore challenges, practice improvements, and system responses.
- Child Sexual Abuse – This theme focuses on strengthening the multi-agency response to CSA, improving identification, disclosure, support, and trauma-informed interventions. It also includes raising practitioner confidence and addressing the findings from national and local reviews.
- Online harms – This theme tackles the safeguarding risks children face in the digital world, including exploitation, abuse, radicalisation, and harmful content. It supports coordinated prevention, education, and intervention strategies across agencies and with families.
- Working with fathers – This priority promotes inclusive practice by improving how agencies engage, assess, and work with fathers and father figures. It aims to address unconscious bias, support stronger father-child relationships, and reduce safeguarding risks linked to father invisibility in casework.