{"id":5884,"date":"2024-03-25T15:31:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.policypartnersproject.co.uk\/cs\/?post_type=glossary&#038;p=5884"},"modified":"2025-07-08T10:05:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:05:52","slug":"safeguarding-and-promoting-the-welfare-of-children","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/www.policypartnersproject.co.uk\/cs\/glossary\/safeguarding-and-promoting-the-welfare-of-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defined for the purposes of Working Together to Safeguard Children (DfE) as: providing help and support to meet the needs of children as soon as problems emerge; protecting children from maltreatment, whether that is within or outside the home, including online; preventing impairment of children\u2019s mental and physical health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; promoting the upbringing of children with their birth parents, or otherwise their family network through a kinship care arrangement, whenever possible and where this is in the best interests of the children; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes in line with the outcomes set out in the Children\u2019s Social Care National Framework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defined for the purposes of Working Together to Safeguard Children (DfE) as: providing help and support to meet the needs of children as soon as problems emerge; protecting children from maltreatment, whether that is within or outside the home, including online; preventing impairment of children\u2019s mental and physical health or development; ensuring that children grow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.policypartnersproject.co.uk\/cs\/glossary\/safeguarding-and-promoting-the-welfare-of-children\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_helpful_status":1,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5884","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.policypartnersproject.co.uk\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/5884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.policypartnersproject.co.uk\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.policypartnersproject.co.uk\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.policypartnersproject.co.uk\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.policypartnersproject.co.uk\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/5884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.policypartnersproject.co.uk\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}