Re: Consultation: working together guidance [8 Attachments]

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Consultation: working together guidance [8 Attachments]

The Department for Education is consulting on an updated guidance to

replace the current 'Working together' safeguarding document.

Personally, I like the current document, but of course it came out

under the last government, and the current government have used the

opportunity opened by Eileen Munro's adverse comments about the extent

of prescriptive detail to take a completely 'new broom' approach to

the guidance. I haven't had time to look at these four documents in

detail, but they are certainly radically scaled down. The actual

'working together' one is focused on organisational responsibilities,

the 'individual case' guidance is predominantly for social workers and

children's social care (who are curiously almost completely absent

from the working together guidance) and the guidance about serious

case reviews is replaced by one focused on learning and development

following adverse events.

The consultation is open until 6th September: attached or from

http://www.education.gov.uk/consultations/index.cfm?action=consultationDetails & c\

onsultationId=1839 & external=no & menu=1

best wishes

Cowley

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