The future of local safeguarding arrangements has been put back on the political agenda after children's minister Edward Timpson felt it necessary to question the quality of a serious case review (SCR) for the second time in three months.
Timpson's reprimand of Bradford local safeguarding children board (LSCB) over the "glaring absences" in the SCR into the death of Hamzah Khan earlier this month, was quickly followed by his boss – Education Secretary Michael Gove - calling for reforms to the accountability chain in local authority child protection services.
In typically robust fashion, Gove said: "Ultimate responsibility for child protection should rest with chief executives on six-figure salaries, and their political leaders, who may not concentrate on vital questions of child protection because these issues do not influence their job prospects or move votes."
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