Home Office and Department of Health (DH) (1991) Working together under the Children Act 1989: a guide to arrangements for inter-agency co-operation for the protection of children from abuse. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO). Their efforts led to two men being found guilty of manslaughter, and although the longest imprisonment term of the two was only 15 months, a sentence that Ray said “enraged” them because of its brevity, it was a sign of some kind of justice at last. So it was in 1989 that, still coping with their grief, Pauline and Ray had the strange experience of seeing themselves played by Hollywood stars. See our reading list about the reforms to child protection legislation following the deaths of Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells 2003 – National guidance and Children’s Commissioner in Northern Ireland, Children and Young People’s Commissioner for Scotland In December Estyn published its report looking at the incidence of peer-on-peer sexual harassment in secondary school pupils in Wales (Estyn, 2021) 27. The report set out nine recommendations to the Welsh Government, local authorities and secondary schools. 2022 – independent review of children’s social care in England, Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) recommendations for England and Wales and the national review into the murders of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson A new version of Working together to safeguard children (PDF) was published in England, informed by the Munro review (DfE, 2013). 14 2014 – National legislation and guidance in Scotland and Wales and Jay report

Scottish Football Association (2018) The interim report of the Independent Review of Sexual Abuse in Scottish football (PDF). London: Scottish Football Association. The Children Act 2004, informed by Lord Laming’s report, established a Children’s Commissioner in England (the last of the UK nations to appoint one); created Local Safeguarding Children's Boards (LSCBs) in England and Wales; and placed a duty on local authorities in England to appoint a director of children’s services and an elected lead member for children’s services, who is ultimately accountable for the delivery of services. Responding to the death of a child: the Child Death Review process (focus on the individual child) (Jump to)

Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in England and Wales (IICSA) (2018) Independent inquiry into child sexual abuse. [Accessed 22/08/2018]. The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 aimed to strengthen the rights of children and young people in Scotland. It provided extra support for children in care and care leavers, and created systems to identify and respond to child welfare concerns at an early stage. The Children Act 1975 built on the 1945 Act and highlighted the importance of children’s welfare. It also established the role of an independent social worker who would ensure the best interests of the child during court proceedings. 1984 – The transformation of child protection services

To notify the Medical Examiner (once introduced) and the doctor who certified the cause of death, if it identifies any errors or deficiencies in an individual child's registered cause of death. Any correction to the child's cause of death would only be made following an application for a formal correction; She also liked us because when she called in to see us from time to time we would never tell the media.” Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA) (2017) Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry – report chapters. [Accessed 23/08/2019].

Lord Laming’s The protection of children in England: a progress report (PDF) made 58 recommendations for child protection reforms (Laming, 2009). 10 The Scottish Government announced its intention to incorporate the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into Scottish law (Scottish Government, 2019). 24 2020 – Safeguarding during coronavirus and corporal punishment made illegal in Jersey, Scotland and Wales

In 2023, the Welsh Government 33 and the Home Office 34set out how they would be responding to IICSA’s recommendations. Read the independent inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham on our library catalogue 2015 – Abuse inquiries in England, Wales and Scotland, legislation in Northern Ireland and FGM reporting in England and WalesRead Getting it right for every child (2006) via our library catalogue 2007 – Protection of Vulnerable Groups in Northern Ireland and Scotland