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Letters New child safeguarding arrangements

Expanding child safeguarding might dilute core protection activities

BMJ 2019; 367 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l6481 (Published 18 November 2019) Cite this as: BMJ 2019;367:l6481
  1. Jill Manthorpe, professor of social work,
  2. Mary Baginsky, senior research fellow
  1. Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King’s Policy Institute, King’s College London, Virginia Woolf Building, London WC2B 6LE, UK
  1. jill.manthorpe{at}kcl.ac.uk

Green discusses the implications of changes to children’s safeguarding services and calls for more emphasis on a public health approach to improving the health and happiness of children and young people in England.1 In parts of England, more than one …

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