The London Safeguarding Children Partnership’s Executive has launched the Safeguarding Adolescents In London (SAIL) digital resource.
The SAIL guidance provides comprehensive guidance designed to transform how practitioners, managers, and service leaders work to keep young people safe across the capital. Co-produced with contributions from respected voices across the sector, and developed by the London Innovation and Improvement Alliance (LIIA), SAIL represents a significant step forward in bringing coherence to adolescent safeguarding practice.
The guidance describes the principles and practice that, as statutory safeguarding partners, London’s local authorities believe should underpin the work of all agencies working with vulnerable young people.
Florence Kroll CBE (Director of Children’s for Royal Borough of Greenwich, Chair of the Association of London Directors of Children’s Services (ALDCS) and Chair of the London Adolescent Safeguarding Oversight Board (LASOB)) talks about the significance of the work:
“Adolescent safeguarding rightly has a very high profile in London. We regularly hear about young people who suffer harm and exploitation in the capital. Some tragically lose their lives, often doing so at the hands of other young people. In this context everyone wants to do something.”
Florence Kroll CBE, Chair of the London Adolescent Safeguarding Oversight Board