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Safeguarding arrangments
Stoke-on-Trent has always been a city with a strong identity and one that our residents are rightly proud of. In 2022-23 we are now strengthening our partnership arrangements to safeguard children.
Following on from the 2016 Wood Review, the Children and Social Work Act 2017 and Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018 introduced a duty to be placed on three agencies: Local Authorities, the Chief Constable and Clinical Commissioning Groups to make arrangements for the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in their area. Integrated Care Boards, from 1 July 2022, have replaced clinical commissioning groups as a result of the Health and Care Act 2022.
In Stoke-on-Trent we have come together as a single Safeguarding Children Partnership to deliver a system that protects children, especially the most vulnerable. Protecting, safeguarding and ensuring the wellbeing of children are complex tasks that can only be successfully achieved by agencies working together in a coherent and effective manner.
Below is the link to our multi-agency safeguarding arrangements:
Stoke-on-Trent published arrangements