Children’s minister Tim Loughton has launched a consultation on plans to reduce the complexity of child protection guidance for health professionals, teachers, police, social workers and other children’s professionals.
Currently Working Together to Safeguard Children; The Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families; and statutory guidance on safeguarding arrangements under the Children Act 2004, total around 700 pages of guidance.
The consultation covers three documents, which have been reduced to a total of 68 pages.
Under the revised Working Together guidance the government has set out the legal requirements of children’s professionals so organisations know their duties and the essential requirements of collaborating to provide a co-ordinated approach to safeguarding.
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