Health professionals play a fundamentally important role in child protection. But uncertainty over how safeguarding services will be managed in the new NHS has dogged attempts to prepare for impending changes to the system.
Among the chief concerns of children’s services professionals is the worry that the move to a mix of local and national commissioning bodies could lead to a lack of strategic accountability for keeping children safe.
The government has now published interim guidance on safeguarding in the NHS in a bid to offer professionals some direction on how the issue will be dealt with.
It confirms that clinical commissioning groups and the NHS Commissioning Board will have a legal duty to protect children and take part in local safeguarding children boards (LSCBs). But the detail of how this will all work in practice remains unclear.
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