Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Walmsley said that cross-government support is as important as multi-agency working in ensuring child protection practices improve.
She said the scrapping of the National Safeguarding Delivery Unit (NSDU), set up by the last government following recommendations from Lord Laming's review, could isolate the child protection agenda within the Department for Education (DfE).
"There is a danger that because the DfE has to make the effort to work with other departments, that won't happen," she said. "All I can do at the moment is undertake to look into this in my new role as co-chair of the backbench committee. It is terribly important that child protection is taken forward both cross-departmentally as well as multi-professionally in local teams — at a policy level as well as at the coal face."
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