The Children's Services
Team is responsible for ensuring all children and young
people in the City are safe and protected from harm.
If you suspect ill treatment of a child or young person, or if
you are being hurt or abused contact us on 020 7332 1224 to speak
to a social worker or email
social.services@cityoflondon.gov.uk.
Where concern has been expressed about an individual, social
workers must look into what is happening and make enquiries to
check that the child is safe. We will try to work in partnership
with parents and carers and keep them involved in what is
happening.
In most situations help and advice can be sufficient to sort out
the problems. It is rare for social services to have to consider
removing a child from their family to protect them.
Other useful websites:
Area Child
Protection Committees
NSPCC
Childline web site and Freephone 0800 1111
Laming Inquiry Inspection
Following the report of the Laming Inquiry into the death of
Victoria Climbié in Haringey, the Secretary of State for Health
wrote to all Chief Executives stating the need for Councils to be
satisfied that appropriate arrangements were in place to ensure the
quality of service to children in need and, in particular, those
children in need of protection.
We returned our self-assessment to the Department of Health
which was evaluated by our Link Inspector. We were evaluated as
"serving children well" with "promising" prospects. Out of
the seven standards we received the highest rating for five of them
and "promising" for the other two.