Twenty years ago the regulations behind the statutory children’s social care complaints procedure came into force, and the guidance beneath them has not been revised since.
Few people outside children’s services know the procedure exists, and fewer still know what it gives a child, the right to have someone independent read the records and say what happened. In my latest piece for Children & Young People Now I look at how children came to have that right, what it still does for them, and why the machinery around it now needs renewing.
The piece is here: https://www.cypnow.co.uk/content/comment/children-won-this-safeguard-the-hard-way-20-years-on-it-needs-renewing?utm_campaign=Weekly%20RoundUp%2011%2F09%2F26&utm_content=&utm_term=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cypnow.co.uk%2Fcontent%2Fcomment%2Fchildren-won-this-safeguard-the-hard-way-20-years-on-it-needs-renewing&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Children%20%26%20Young%20People%20Now
I would be glad to hear from anyone working in or around the procedure, in councils, advocacy or the Ombudsman, about what reform should look like.
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