Where we are:

Safeguarding children services is based in Birkenhead, just across the river Mersey from Liverpool. Birkenhead is an area of Wirral, the eighth largest metropolitan district in the country. The wards of Bidston, Birkenhead and Tranmere, all within a few miles of our base, are in the top 1% of most deprived wards in the country. Bidson is the most deprived ward in the country in terms of Child Poverty.

On the Wirral 7 out of 10 children in the most deprived wards experience child poverty. Of the 80,000 children and young people (under 19) who live here, 16,000 have 'additional needs' and 2,000 have acute needs (this means they are in need of child protection services or have significant disabilities).