An updated Working Together to Safeguard Children was published last week, building on the 2023 revision and introducing significant changes to how agencies work together.
The guidance strengthens expectations around anti-discriminatory and anti-racist practice, and expands its scope to explicitly include kinship care, adopted, looked-after and unborn children.
It also reinforces the need to consider the wider family context, recognising the impact of parental circumstances on siblings and other children.
Alongside this, there is greater emphasis on harms such as coercive control, child sexual abuse and teenage relationship abuse.
You can download the new version here: https://www.gov.uk/government/
VIDEO: Changes to Working Together to Safeguard Children Match 2026
Andrew Hall has created a 10-minute video introducing the changes.
