Working Together to Safeguard Children

Working together to safeguard children - Statutory guidance on multi-agency working to help, protect and promote the welfare of children (December 2023) is available view here.

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Children and young people, along with the Department for Education’s Social Care Advisory Board have co-produced Working together to safeguard children: an illustrated guide for children, young people and their families.

There is a summary of the changes that were made in Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023.

You can access the Working together to safeguard children glossary here.

The Department for Education published guidance on Improving practice with children, young people and families which is designed to help everyone to implement the changes in Working Together to Safeguard Children and the Children’s Social Care National Framework statutory guidance, which sets out the national expectation for social care practice with children, young people and families. Leaders should apply this advice to their local context.

The Department for Education has also published guidance on the Families First Partnership programme for safeguarding partners on implementing family help, multi-agency child protection and family group decision-making reforms.

Keeping Children Safe in Education published September 2024, should be read alongside Working Together to Safeguard Children.

 

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