Last month the government published its consultation on the primary child protection guidance, which seeks views on three statutory guidance documents: Working Together to Safeguard Children; Managing Cases: the Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families; and Statutory Guidance on Learning and Improvement.
The government has announced that these documents will herald a “new relationship between central government and local services”.
The idea behind the new guidance is that local areas should be allowed to design and shape the way that they conduct their assessments of vulnerable children and their families rather than accede to lengthy prescriptive guidance, following the recommendations made in the Munro Review of Child Protection (2011).
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