All 50,000 staff will be trained on how to integrate the five Every Child Matters outcomes into their work during the first three months of next year, CYP Now can reveal. This will see police officers routinely collecting details of young people's school and parents.
Commander Rod Jarman, head of the Metropolitan Police's safer neighbourhoods initiative, told CYP Now: "A PC might come across young boys throwing stones, for example. The new approach is about getting the officer going through questions with them to identify what's missing, what's stopping them achieving the five outcomes."
The information gained during these conversations will then be used to forge closer working relationships with other services working with children.
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