Safeguarding children and young people: a new scrutiny guide
The Centre for Public Scrutiny (CfPS) and The Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) have published a new guide to support overview and scrutiny committees in fulfilling their critical role in relation to safeguarding children.
The Centre for Public Scrutiny (CfPS) and The Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) have published a new guide to support overview and scrutiny committees in fulfilling their critical role in relation to safeguarding children.
Safeguarding children and promoting their welfare is one of the key statutory responsibilities vested in top-tier local authorities. Safeguarding in this context is used to mean both child protection services and other activities designed to make children safer at home, at school, in their communities or using public services.
The guide is designed to assist both councillors and officers in shaping and developing local safe services. The document includes:
- suggestions for approaches to scrutiny
- key references and advice for further reading
- a series of questions that committee members may want to consider when testing whether local arrangements are robust.