Reminder on safeguarding recommendations
David Behan, chief inspector of the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI), has sent a reminder to all local Safeguarding Children boards (LSCBs) about the findings and recommendations of the 2005 Safeguarding Children review and the government's response.
Read the letter and the recommendations below.
Background information
CSCI led the review on behalf of seven other inspectorates leading to the publication of the Safeguarding Children report last year.
In March 2006 the government published its response, called 'Making safeguarding everyone's business', which accepted all but two of the recommendations.
In his letter to LSCBs, copied to directors of children's services, David Behan identifies all the recommendations relating to LSCBs or their constituent agencies.
Most of these recommendations have an impact on the services inspected by CSCI and include:
- standards for the care of looked after children
- thresholds for social work intervention
- inter-agency working to safeguard children.
We are asking LCSBs and directors of social services to review the work of their LSCBs to take account of the recommendations.
We are also advising them that we will look to see how these recommendations have been acted upon when we carry out Joint Area Reviews.
Inspections of children's homes and fostering services will also take account of the recommendations relating to the care of looked after children.
A copy of the letter and the accompanying annex detailing the recommendations and the government's response is available to download below.
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