Child Protection Authority
Overview
The government is consulting on the Child Protection Authority (CPA), a national body to improve child protection. The CPA is envisaged as an expert, accurate and decisive body that makes the multi-agency child protection system clearer, more unified and ensure there is ongoing improvements through effective evidence-based support.
This consultation seeks views on the CPA’s proposed functions, governance, and interaction with existing bodies. We welcome responses from children and families, frontline practitioners, local authorities, inspectorates, professional bodies, and voluntary, community and statutory organisations involved in safeguarding. Your feedback will help shape the future of child protection in England.
Why your views matter
This consultation will be open to the public for twelve weeks. Alongside this consultation, we will be working with children and young people as well as victims and survivors of abuse to seek their views on our proposals.
The Department for Education is inviting views through four main sections of this consultation on:
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The overview, scope and design principles of the CPA
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Proposals for how the CPA will provide leadership and oversight of the child protection system.
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Proposals for how the CPA will provide system learning and support.
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Proposals for how the CPA will drive system improvement in the child protection system.
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Proposals for how the CPA will be structured and engage with other organisations.
What happens next
Following the responses to this consultation, the Department for Education will analyse responses and issue a government response by Summer 2026.
Audiences
- 16-18 year old students resident at these institutions
- Academies (including free schools), voluntary aided schools, voluntary controlled schools, foundation schools and community schools
- Adoptive parents
- Adult and mental health practitioners
- Adult education providers
- All
- Awarding organisations
- Bodies representing schools and local authorities
- CAMHS
- Clinical commissioning groups
- Community representatives
- Companies and organisations working in the digital industry
- Contractors involved in building schools
- Designated institutions and 16-19 academies
- Designated safeguarding leads
- Directors of children's services
- Early learning and childcare providers
- Educational Psychologists
- Employers
- Faith bodies
- Film Industry representatives
- Fire sector
- Foster carers
- Further education colleges
- Further Education leaders and workforce
- Governing bodies and academy trusts
- Government bodies and departments
- Governors
- Head teachers and proprietors of private schools
- Headteachers
- Health visitors
- Higher Education governing bodies
- Higher Education leaders and workforce
- Higher Education students and prospective students
- Independent school associations
- Independent specialist colleges
- Local authorities
- Ofsted
- Organisations which represent the views of computing teachers
- Organisations with an interest in the content of the computer science GCSE
- Parents
- Principle social workers
- Pupils
- School business managers
- School nurses
- School support staff
- Secondary teachers of computer science and subject leaders
- SENCOs
- Service managers
- Sixth form colleges
- Social workers
- Social workers
- Students
- Teachers
- Team managers
- Those evaluating programmes for children in need
- Those involved in underlying theoretical research on abuse and neglect, child development etc
- Those researching children’s social care or education systems, with links to educational outcomes of Children in Need
- Training providers
- Unions and representative organisations
- Universities
- Virtual school heads
- Volunteers
- Young people
Interests
- Academies
- Academy sponsorship
- Accommodation (Looked after children)
- Accountability
- Admissions
- Adoption
- Adult social care
- Adult social work
- Advocacy (Looked after children)
- All
- Alternative provision
- Apprenticeships
- Attendance and absence
- Behaviour and discipline
- Capital funding
- Care leavers and former looked-after children
- Careers guidance
- Community learning
- Converting to an academy
- Disabled children
- Early learning and childcare
- Early years foundation stage
- Education
- Equality
- Establishing maintained schools
- Film Industry and skills
- Financial management
- Financial support (Looked after children)
- Fostering
- Free Schools, studio schools and University technical colleges
- Friends and family care
- GCE AS and A level subject content
- GCSE subject content
- Governance
- HE
- Health and wellbeing
- Health and wellbeing (Looked after children)
- Intervention
- Keeping children safe in education and other settings
- Key stage 1
- Key stage 2
- Lifelong learning
- National Curriculum
- Participation of young people in education, employment and training
- Pay, conditions and pensions
- Performance tables
- Planning
- Post 16 Qualifications
- Post-16 funding
- Preventing neglect, abuse and exploitation
- Primary assessment
- Procurement for schools
- Programmes and initiatives (Looked after children)
- Pupil data
- Pupil place planning
- Raising the participation age
- Recruitment
- Safeguarding disabled children
- School and academy funding
- School building estates
- School funding reform
- SEND code of practice
- Setting up an academy or free school
- Sex and relationships education
- Short break care
- Social care standards and guidance
- Social workers' standards
- Special guardianship
- Statutory policies and guidance
- Sufficiency
- Support in education
- Teacher assessment
- Teachers' standards
- Teaching and learning (SEND)
- Training and development
- Travel to school and colleges
- Work based training
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