The revised version of the guidance, which includes the Working Together to Safeguard Children document, was published for consultation by the Department for Education at the end of last month.
Debbie Jones told CYP Now that while the government’s intention was to reduce bureaucracy and free professionals to use their own judgement, the shortened guidance may be too light on detail.
“A lot of work has been done to try and get that balance between autonomy and prescription,” she explained. “However I think that it may well have gone too far. To go from 700 pages to 68 is a job and a half. Inevitably in that you will lose some of the detail.”
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