Consultation: working together guidance

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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 & consultationId=1839 & external=no & menu=1best wishes Cowleysarahcowley183@...http://myprofile.cos.com/S124021COn

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Working together to safeguard chilldren draft 7 Jun 12 Jim sent 8 June.doc

Managing individual cases - the Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families - 8 June 2012 S .doc

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Statutory guidance on learning and improvement - FINAL (2) Jim 8 6(1).doc

working together consultation document (7).doc

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