Children: Protection

(asked on 22nd October 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of including in the definition of children at risk of being exploited in the Working Together to Safeguard Children guide children and young people undergoing family breakdown.


Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 30th October 2018

The ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’ guide already mentions the potential need for early help for children in a challenging family circumstance. In a section on ‘Identifying children and families who would benefit from early help’, the text includes: “Practitioners should, in particular, be alert to the potential need for early help for a child who…. is in a family circumstance presenting challenges for the child such as drug and alcohol misuse, adult mental health issues and domestic abuse.” A child undergoing family breakdown would potentially be in this group.

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