This article has been brought to you by Department for Education's Child Protection, Safeguarding and Family Law Team, Sarah Todd, and Slough Borough Council's Safeguarding Partnership Manager, Betty Lynch.
The Department for Education has published two pieces of statutory safeguarding guidance. These set the framework within which all practitioners should operate in order to protect children from abuse and neglect and promote their best interests, they can be accessed here and are:
- revised Working Together to Safeguard Children statutory guidance; and
- Local Safeguarding - Transitional Arrangements statutory guidance.
