The consultation aims to gather views on updating Working Together to help deliver on the government’s plans to transform children’s social care set out in Stable Homes, Built on Love Stable Homes, Built on Love which sets out an ambitious plan to transform children’s social care, committing to support every child to grow up in a safe, stable, and loving home.
Working Together to Safeguard Children is the core statutory guidance for all involved in safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. It sets out the requirements and processes for multi-agency working and forms part of the framework against which local authorities are inspected.. The consultation opened on 21 June, and will run for 11 weeks, with the consultation closing on 6 September 2023.
Updating Working Together is a key next step in the government reforms to improve local and central government systems and multi-agency working. The aim is to help practitioners across agencies understand how best to deliver services to families that will really make a difference and to remind all organisations and agencies of their responsibilities to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in their area.
Consultation Events
Throughout this period, engagement events will be running, to help all partner agencies and stakeholders involved in children’s social care to engage with the consultation process. This is essential to develop collaborative, multi-agency guidance that reflects the whole system and speaks to all stakeholders, no matter their professional background or sector.
Open events: Thursday 29th June (10:00) and Monday 4th September (15:00)
Single agency events:
Thematic events with multi-agency/sector participation:
Parent and carer event: Date TBC
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The public will also be given the opportunity to share their views on planned changes to Working Together to Safeguard Children, and as part of this tranche of consultation a guide for children and young people is available about the changes planned. If you’d like more information, you can also read the introduction to the full document about the planned changes to Working Together.
In this consultation, views are being sought on how best to strengthen effective multi-agency help, support, safeguarding and child protection across the system ensuring a child-centred approach ensuring that every individual and agency understands their role and is playing their part in delivering effective multi-agency support, intervention and protection.
Read the full consultation document here
Read the Draft: Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 here
