For some years safeguarding has embraced two words that have embodied a strategic aspiration, a desired culture and a direction to us regarding how we should deliver our practice no matter which professional background we come from: ‘Working Together’.
Continue reading MASH: WORKING TOGETHER TO CAPTURE THE VOICE OF THE CHILD #VOC
Prime Minister David Cameron recently pledged £1 billion for mental health services as part of his much vaunted Life Chances Strategy.
Continue reading Life Chances Strategy – we need to make the system safer for children
If ever there was a mean-spirited gaffe made during the festive season it was Prime Minister David Cameron’s recent attack on children’s social services. An exploding yuletide log for social workers, no less. Moreover, it was a direct assault on a profession I have a huge empathy with and respect for.
Continue reading Privatisation is not the answer for failing Children’s Services?
Stephen Rimmer, home office director-general for crime and policing, recently took up his new role at the Metropolitan Police – as strategic adviser to the commissioner after spending two years in the West Midlands as regional lead in preventing violence against vulnerable people.
Continue reading Stephen Rimmer: why multiagency safeguarding is key to public protection
Christmas for most of us is a time of festive cheer, family get togethers, too much mulled wine and general epicurean excess. And so it should be.
Continue reading Victims of domestic abuse need support this Christmas – and in the year ahead
