Advice for designated safeguarding leads on effective information-sharing as part of child protection in schools ...

The review confirmed that a planned council visit went to the wrong house, delaying what should have been a key opportunity ...

The tiered, threshold-based approach to safeguarding needs reform to address the inequalities in provision children face, a major study has recommended. The child welfare systems and inequalities ...

Screening all child protection referrals through a multi-agency team improves the quality of early intervention in families, an evaluation of a Devon model has found. It found that more accurate ...

A recent safeguarding practice review has found that children’s services in Surrey failed to identify abuse suffered by ...

Children's services leaders from councils across England discussed the current challenges of safeguarding children at a debate hosted by CYP Now in partnership with 4Children. Ravi Chandiramani ...

More children are requiring statutory interventions to prevent them from harm, according to a safeguarding partnership operating in Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland. The South Tees Safeguarding ...

Ministers give "inadequate" children's services departments six months to improve or face having social care removed; plans for improvement bodies also unveiled alongside review of safeguarding boards ...

“Inadequate” intervention from professionals “should have protected” a 10-month-old Derbyshire baby who was returned home by social services to his parents who murdered him just 39 days later. A new ...

Following the article in September's BDJ Team on identifying child abuse, Jenny Harris, Chair of the expert group which produced the Child Protection and the Dental Team guidance, outlines how to ...

Safeguarding the healthy development of the next generation is vital for the long term success of the United Nation’s Millennium Development goals. New research highlights the need to integrate global ...