The 2018 revised version of Department for Education statutory guidance Working Together To Safeguard Children follows a consultation in 2017 which set out the changes needed to support the new system of multi-agency safeguarding arrangements established by the Children and Social Work Act 2017.
Multi-agency safeguarding arrangements
Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) will be replaced by "safeguarding partners" (local authorities, chief officers of police, and clinical commissioning groups) who must make arrangements to work together with relevant agencies to safeguard and protect the welfare of children in their area. The partners should agree on ways to co-ordinate their safeguarding services; act as a strategic leadership group in supporting and engaging others; and implement local and national learning including from serious child safeguarding incidents. They all have equal and joint responsibility for local safeguarding arrangements.
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