Four years after the publication of the influential Munro Report (2011) this important publication draws together a range of experts working in the field of child protection to critically examine what impact the reforms have had on multi-agency child protection systems in this country, at both local and national level. With a particular emphasis on early intervention, vulnerable adolescents and effective multi-agency responses to young people at risk, specialists from policy and practice alongside academics in different areas of children's services consider progress in improving child protection arrangements, in transforming services and the challenges that remain. Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs), the statutory bodies responsible for local scrutiny of child protection arrangements, are now subject to Ofsted inspection and this publication considers the role of LSCBs, how services should respond to the most vulnerable children and what 'good' services look like.
Foreword ~ Eileen Munro
Introduction ~ Maggie Blyth;
Getting the right things right ~ Mark Gurrey and Eleanor Brazil;
Child protection: 40 years of learning but where next? ~ Ray Jones;
Doing something different: reconfiguring front-line services: opening up the market ~ Chris Wright;
Re-imagining early help: looking forward, looking back ~ Sue White, Kate Morris, Brid Featherstone, Marian Brandon and June Thoburn;
Children should be seen and heard: understanding the child's experience ~ Jenny Clifton
Responding to adolescent risk: continuing challenges ~ Leslie Hicks
Moving on with Munro: child sexual exploitation within a child protection framework ~ Jenny J. Pearce
Missing children post-Munro ~ Charlie Hedges
Symbolic half-measures? On local safeguarding children boards, their contributions and challenges ~ Michael Preston-Shoot and Martin Pratt;
Conclusion ~ Maggie Blyth.
