A CHILDREN'S welfare watchdog is being replaced with a different statutory organisation next month.
South Tees Area Child Protection Committee (ACPC) meets for the last time today.
The Safeguarding Children Board, which will replace it, is being set up to ensure the effectiveness of services and safeguards for young people, identifying any improvements needed and agreeing how agencies can work together to achieve goals.
Barbara Shaw, chairwoman of ACPC for the past two years, said the committee had gone from strength to strength in promoting strong relationships between agencies involved in protecting children in Middlesbrough and east Cleveland.
She said the committee will celebrate its successes and achievements as a six-year-long partnership of statutory and voluntary agencies, at the end of the business meeting.
She said: "Although we are marking the end of this group, the good work will continue. The inter-agency training programme for staff has developed to more than 60 training events being run each year.
"Next month, the Local Safeguarding Children Board will be established.''
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