Being rolled out this year, new safeguarding arrangements will see senior representatives from three key bodies – local authorities, police and health services – taking joint responsibility for leading work to safeguard children.
The changes come after the government’s 2016 review of the role and functions of local safeguarding children boards and have been set out in the Children and Social Work Act 2017 and the updated Working Together to Safeguard Children statutory guidance (DfE, 2018).
Feedback from the Safeguarding Early Adopter Programme, which launched last year, bringing together 17 projects across the country to develop the new approaches, says that schools should be treated as “the fourth partner”.
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