Greenwich Safeguarding Children Board
CP Register Changes
On 1st April 2008, the Child Protection Register ceased to exist. This change follows Government guidance in Working Together (2006), and reflects the changes that most local authorities have made to using electronic databases, meaning that a separate register is no longer necessary. All previous duties regarding child protection and child protection case conferences remain, however where a child is deemed to be at risk of significant harm, he or she will be made the subject of a Child Protection Plan.
Chapter 5 of Working Together “sets out the processes for recording that a child is the subject of a child protection plan, principally in paragraphs 5.141 to 5.143.This replaces the requirement in the previous version of Working Together to have in place a child protection register and will apply from 1 April 2008.This is to give Local Authorities time to put in place the necessary IT systems before discontinuing their child protection registers. Authorities may move from the child protection register to the new mechanism at any point before 1 April 2008”.
Document downloadable below.