Devon Safeguarding Digest: April 2026
Welcome to the Devon Safeguarding Digest. This regular update will help you stay up to speed with safeguarding news and local policy changes.
Working Together to Safeguard Children 2026
The Department for Education has published a new updated version of Working Together to Safeguard Children, the statutory guidance on multi-agency working to help, support and protect children.
- You can read the full Devon Safeguarding Children Partnership news item on this here.
- The new statutory guidance can be found here.
Children’s Society explores risks to young people from the ‘manosphere’
The Children’s Society has published some facts and thoughts on misogyny and sexism from online social media influencers.
Children’s Commissioner highlights children stuck in hospital due to insufficient care arrangements
More children with complex or life limiting conditions are living longer and more sustaining lives, but the community services designed to support them outside hospital – e.g. children’s social care, housing, education, and home nursing – have not kept pace, meaning children who are medically ready to leave are often waiting in limbo, forced to remain on hospital wards for prolonged periods while agencies try to arrange the care they need – and despite increasing pressure on NHS services and wards. Read the full report on the Children’s Commissioner website.