National agency to tackle child protection’s ‘persistent challenges’, says DfE

Government launches consultation on make-up of Child Protection Authority, which is designed to provide national oversight of safeguarding and tackle system’s ‘fragmentation, failure to learn lessons and lack of leadership’. A new national agency will tackle the “persistent challenges faced by the child protection system” in England, the government said yesterday. Launching a consultation on the establishment of the Child Protection Authority (CPA), the Department for Education said the system was beset by fragmentation and a lack of national oversight, inconsistency and a failure to translate learning into improvement. The CPA would address this by providing national oversight to identify emerging risks, embedding good practice and holding agencies to account for their practice, in tandem with inspectorates and regulatory bodies. Read more.