London Child Protection Procedures sets out the roles and responsibilities of agencies and individuals and how they should work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
Paul Sharma, who was involved in developing the guidelines, said the procedures will help bring consistency to how the 33 London boroughs deal with child protection matters, so if a child moves to a new area of London, professionals will be following the same procedures.
Sharma, a child protection manager at the London Borough of Sutton, said: "This is a living document. We use it every day of our lives. These procedures apply not just to councils, but all statutory and non-statutory agencies. The London procedures mean that the approach that's taken by agencies is going to be the same."
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