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New consultation on local and national safeguarding

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Major changes to guidance on local and national safeguarding arrangements went out to consultation yesterday.

The Government is consulting on changes to the wording in the Working Together to Safeguard Children guidance and new regulations necessary to bring them into line with the Children and Social Work Act.

The new arrangements for local safeguarding, which became law in April, centre on three safeguarding ‘partners’ (local authorities, chief officers of police, and clinical commissioning groups).  They will replace local safeguarding children's boards (LSCBs). The provisions of the new law will:

The consultation looks in detail at new wording on how these multi-agency safeguarding arrangements are made locally, including which relevant agencies partners should work with and how safeguarding arrangements should work and be scrutinsed locally.

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