In 2016/17 the LSCB supported the Pan Beds work on improving the practice around missing children and held a spotlight event to gain a better understanding of what practitioners said could be improved. A revised missing child procedure is now in place.
In 2017/18 we are focusing on what happens in schools in terms of how well do schools and the systems around children missing education, children not going to school, and elective home education, work in safeguarding children.