The safeguarding champions programme, which started in the London borough last autumn, involves the director of children's services and his senior management team each being allocated three children under three who are subject to a child protection plan.
It aims to allow managers to keep in touch with frontline cases, provide support to social workers and offer an additional layer of protection for vulnerable children.
This week NHS Haringey and the Met signed up to the scheme, which received praise in the authority's recent Ofsted report.
Speaking exclusively to CYP Now, Peter Lewis, Haringey's director of children's services, said: "This isn't about taking over cases from social workers; it's simply an additional layer of protection for Haringey children.
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