Improving help and child protection: revised framework
Overview
We're seeking views on proposals to update Working Together to Safeguard Children, the Children’s Social Care National Framework , and the policy that will underpin the development of multi-agency child protection teams regulations.
Why your views matter
Your feedback will help shape future policy and guidance for child protection and family support services in England.
The consultation includes proposals to:
- strengthen family help, including making better use of family networks
- improve multi-agency child protection arrangements for all children
- strenghten independent scrutiny and continuous improvement across safeguarding partnerships
- support more effective decision making across safeguarding partners
- develop multi-agency child protection teams
We want to understand whether the proposals are clear, practical to implement, and likely to improve outcomes for children and their families.
Who should respond?
We welcome responses from:
- local authorities
- health organisations and professionals
- police forces
- schools, colleges and education providers
- voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations
- parents and carers
- anyone with an interest in improving outcomes for children and families
Children and young people
If you are a child or young person, please complete our separate consultation designed specifically for children and young people. You can access it here.
Audiences
- 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
- 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
- Experts and sector stakeholders
- Experts in child development, health and education
- Faith bodies
- 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
- Professional and academic stakeholders
- Research, health and education professionals
- 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
- Subject matter experts and sector representatives
- 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
Interests
- Adoption
- Equality
- Fostering
- Keeping children safe in education and other settings
- Preventing neglect, abuse and exploitation
- Social workers' standards
- Statutory policies and guidance
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