12 April 2013

Safeguarding children - revised guidance

Working Together to Safeguard Children
Dept for Education 12 April 2013
  • This revised sets out how organisations and individuals should work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and how practitioners should conduct the assessment of children.
  • Replaces Working Together to Safeguard Children (2010), The Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families (2000) and Statutory guidance on making arrangements to safeguard and promote the welfare of children under section 11 of the Children Act 2004 (2007). 
  • It includes links to relevant supplementary guidance that professionals should consider