Working together to safeguard children : a guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children
Working together to safeguard children : a guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children [E-book]
- London : HM Government, 2013
- 96 p.
- Website
Previous version was issued by the Department of Health in 2010
This guidance covers: the legislative requirements and expectations on individual services to safeguard and promote the welfare of children; and a clear framework for Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) to monitor the effectiveness of local services. This document replaces Working Together to Safeguard Children (2010); The Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families (2000); and Statutory guidance on making arrangements to safeguard and promote the welfare of children under section 11 of the Children Act 2004 (2007). Links to relevant supplementary guidance that professionals should consider alongside this guidance can be found at Appendix C.
Child health
Interagency relations
Social welfare
Child abuse
Child protection
WS 160.
Previous version was issued by the Department of Health in 2010
This guidance covers: the legislative requirements and expectations on individual services to safeguard and promote the welfare of children; and a clear framework for Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) to monitor the effectiveness of local services. This document replaces Working Together to Safeguard Children (2010); The Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families (2000); and Statutory guidance on making arrangements to safeguard and promote the welfare of children under section 11 of the Children Act 2004 (2007). Links to relevant supplementary guidance that professionals should consider alongside this guidance can be found at Appendix C.
Child health
Interagency relations
Social welfare
Child abuse
Child protection
WS 160.