Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that Local Safeguarding Children Boards and local agencies are implementing the recommendations of the Ofsted 2012 thematic inspection on protecting disabled children.

Government statutory guidance, ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’, which was revised in 2013 and again in 2015, sets out the requirements and expectations for all those involved in protecting children, including local safeguarding children boards (LSCBs) and partner agencies. This includes children with disabilities, who are subject to particular protections under the Children Act 1989. Under its November 2013 single inspection framework, Ofsted now reviews LSCBs and publishes reports on their performance.