My name is Jean Pollard and I am the Director of Safeguarding and Corporate Parenting in Swindon.

I hope that you are able to find the information you are looking for on the website. If you can't find it, or if you have any ideas about how we might improve the site, we would be pleased to hear from you.

Please e-mail us at yourcommentscount@swindon.gov.uk.

Some of the things that we believe in

Our vision

To safeguard vulnerable children and young people and their families, through the delivery of high quality services that will improve their individual life chances.

Our values

To:

• Support children, young people and their families, so that wherever possible children can remain within their families
• Safeguard children and young people from all forms of abuse
• Place the child at the centre of all our activity
• Ensure that children and their families are enabled to participate in decision making relating to them
• Engage with partners in prevention and early intervention to avoid injury, abuse, exclusion from school and becoming looked after
• Promote children’s and young peoples life chances through enhancing stability, and addressing to their health and education needs
• Ensure that all services are fully accessible to all children and families without discrimination of any kind
• For children who need to be looked after
• Place children wherever possible in local family placements with clear plans for reunification
• Supply stable well-matched local placements, including adoptive and permanent places that will provide support into adulthood, for those children that need them
• Value our staff in order that they can actively contribute to the above
• Work positively with our partners and local communities in order to promote the best possible opportunities for children and families

We will seek to achieve these values through the provision of a high quality service, managed well within the current resource constraints.

In order to find out more about what Safeguarding and Corporate Parenting can offer, please click on the pages to your right.

Overnight Short Breaks for Children with Disabilities

We urgently need carers for children in wheelchairs!

We're looking to find people who would be willing to consider becoming carers for the Home and Away Scheme.  This is predominately a scheme for children with learning disabilities to have short breaks but we are also looking for people who may consider taking a child on a longer term basis who may be wheelchair users so would need suitable ground floor accommodation where we could offer some minor help with adaptations to make it more accessible.

For more details please see Home and Away.

Further Information - Useful Links

Swindon Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB)

Children & Young Peopole's Complaints

Direct Payments for Disabled Children and Young People