Six years on from the death of Victoria Climbie and the children'ssector finally has formal safeguarding guidance based on what's been putin place since 2000.
The original Working Together document, the seminal guidance on how tokeep children safe, was published in 1999, a year before VictoriaClimbie's death. But since then key directives, from Lord Laming'sinquiry and the Children Act 2004 to the Bichard Inquiry and thechildren's national service framework, have strengthened professionals'impetus to work together to protect children.
Andrew Webb, co-chair of the Association of Directors of SocialServices' children and families committee, welcomes the fact that theupdated guidance has finally been published. "Local safeguardingchildren boards were contained in the Children Act 2004, for instance,but it's only in 2006 that we're getting the full guidance to pull itall together," he says.
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