Part 1: Children Chapter 2: Safeguarding of children Section 16: Local arrangements for safeguarding and promoting welfare of children
This section adds a new section 16E into the Children Act 2004. References to subsections below are to subsections in that new section.
	Subsection (1) requires safeguarding partners for a local authority area to make arrangements for themselves and relevant agencies they consider appropriate to work together in exercising their functions, so far as those functions are exercised for the purpose of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in the area.
	Subsection (2) requires those arrangements to include arrangements for safeguarding partners to work together to identify and respond to the needs of children in the area.
	Subsection (3) includes two definitions:
‘relevant agency’, in relation to a local authority area in England, is a person who is specified in regulations made by the Secretary of State and who exercises functions in relation to children in the local authority area;
‘safeguarding partner’, in relation to a local authority area in England, is the local authority, a clinical commissioning group and the chief officer of police within the local authority area.