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As a Project Coordinator for Palliative and End of Life Care, my role within the CYP Alliance is to bring people together, ensuring that professionals and organisations work collaboratively to provide the best possible care for children, young people, and their families.

Where there are concerns that a child is suffering or at risk of suffering significant harm a referral should be made to the local authority children’s social care.

Local authorities have a duty to make enquiries under section 47 of the Children Act 1989 if they have reasonable cause to suspect that a child is suffering, or is likely to suffer, significant harm, to enable them to decide whether they should take any action to safeguard and promote the child’s welfare.

Within one working day of a referral being received, a local authority social worker should make a decision about the type of response that is required and acknowledge receipt to the referrer.