The Joint Chief Inspectors' report, Safeguarding Children, found that few Area Child Protection Committees (ACPCs) were equipped and able to promote and ensure safeguards for children and young people. It said they lacked adequate resources, effective leadership and accountability, and that there were no provisions for joint working between ACPCs and the Multi-Agency Protection Panels set up by the police and probation services to protect the public from dangerous offenders and other potentially dangerous people.
The inspectors' report is the result of work by several inspectorates, covering social services, the police, the probation service, magistrates' courts, prisons, the Crown Prosecution Service as well as Ofsted and the Commission for Health Improvement. Phillip Noyes, NSPCC director of public policy, said that the report would 'provide a powerful platform for effective child protection reform'.
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