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Details
This guidance is for:
- statutory safeguarding partners (health, local authorities, and police)
- directors of children’s services
- education and childcare settings
- social workers
- health professionals
- police (including British Transport Police)
- adult social care services
- housing and homelessness services
- Prison and Probation Services
- children’s homes
- secure establishments (secure training centres and young offender institutions)
- youth offending teams
- UK Visas and Immigration, Immigration Enforcement, and Border Force
- Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass)
- the armed services
- Channel panels
- voluntary, charity, social enterprise (VCSE) and faith-based organisations, and private sectors
- sports clubs and organisations
It applies to:
- all organisations and agencies that have functions relating to children
- all education providers and childcare settings
Statutory guidance is issued by law. You must follow it unless there’s a good reason not to.
Working together to safeguard children 2023
This revision to the guidance focuses on strengthening multi-agency working across the whole system of help, support and protection for children and their families, keeping a child-centred approach while bringing a whole-family focus, and embedding strong, effective and consistent multi-agency child protection practice.
The update includes:
- principles for working with parents and carers that centre the importance of building positive, trusting and co-operative relationships to deliver tailored support to families
- expectations for multi-agency working that apply to all individuals, agencies and organisations working with children and their families, across a range of roles and activities
- new national multi-agency child protection standards that set out actions, considerations and behaviours for improved child protection practice and better outcomes for children