Working Together to Safeguard Children
Working Together to Safeguard Children
A guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children
March 2010
Working Together to Safeguard Children
A guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children
March 2010
A guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children 1
Contents
Working Together to Safeguard Children: Executive Summary 7
Introduction
7
Part 1: Statutory guidance
8
Part 2: Non-statutory practice guidance
18
Preface
22
Introduction
22
Purpose of the document and who should read it
22
Content of this guidance
24
Other related guidance
24
Status of the document as statutory guidance
25
When does the guidance apply?
26
Glossary
27
Part 1: Statutory Guidance
28
Chapter 1 ? Introduction: working together to safeguard
and promote the welfare of children and families
29
Supporting children and families
29
Parenting, family life and services
29
Lord Laming's progress report
30
The Government's response
30
An integrated approach
31
A shared responsibility
31
The child in focus
32
Key definitions
34
Chapter 2 ? Roles and responsibilities
40
Introduction
40
The statutory framework within which organisations operate
40
Infrastructure and governance to deliver safeguarding responsibilities
42
Information sharing
43
ContactPoint
44
Common Assessment Framework (CAF)
44
Local authorities that are children's services authorities
45
Other local authority roles
48
Health services
51
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Health organisations Roles of different health services Health professionals Criminal justice organisations Schools and further education institutions Early years services Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) The armed services The voluntary and private sectors Faith communities
Chapter 3 ? Local Safeguarding Children Boards
LSCB role Scope of the LSCB LSCB functions Other policies and procedures LSCB governance and operational arrangements Membership of an LSCB
Chapter 4 ? Training, development and supervision for inter-agency working
Introduction and definitions Purpose Roles and responsibilities Content, audiences and values Planning, organisation, delivery and evaluation Effective support and supervision Table 1: Suggested training for different target groups
Chapter 5 ? Managing individual cases where there are concerns about a child's safety and welfare
Introduction Working with children when there are concerns about their safety and welfare Principles underpinning work to safeguard and promote the welfare of children The processes for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children The welfare of unborn children Referrals to local authority children's social care where there are concerns about a child's safety or welfare Response of local authority children's social care to a referral Initial assessment
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Next steps ? child in need but no suspected actual or likely significant harm 150
Next steps ? suspicion that a child is suffering, or is likely to suffer,
significant harm
151
Immediate protection
152
Strategy discussion
153
Section 47 enquiries and core assessment
155
Child Assessment Orders
158
The impact of section 47 enquiries on the family and child
159
The outcome of section 47 enquiries
159
Concerns are not substantiated
160
Concerns are substantiated, but the child is not judged
to be continuing to, or be likely to, suffer significant harm
160
Concerns are substantiated and the child is judged to be
continuing to, or be likely to, suffer significant harm
162
The initial child protection conference
162
Action following the initial child protection conference
172
Completion of the core assessment
174
The child protection plan
175
Intervention
176
The child protection review conference
179
Discontinuing the child protection plan
180
Children looked after by the local authority
181
Pre-birth child protection conferences and reviews
182
Recording that a child is the subject of a child protection plan
182
Managing and providing information about a child
183
Recording in individual case records
184
Request for a change of worker
185
Chapter 6 ? Supplementary guidance on safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children
Introduction Sexually exploited children Children affected by gang activity Fabricated or induced illness (FII) Investigating complex (organised or multiple) abuse Female genital mutilation Forced marriage and honour-based violence Allegations of abuse made against a person who works with children Abuse of disabled children Child abuse linked to belief in `spirit possession' Child victims of trafficking
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