Part 1: Children Chapter 2: Safeguarding of children Section 18: Further provision about arrangements
This section adds a new section 16G into the Children Act 2004. References to subsections below are to subsections in that new section.
	Subsection (1) states that the provisions in section 16G apply to the arrangements set out in sections 16E and 16F.
	Subsection (2) requires the safeguarding partners to publish the arrangements they make under sections 16E and 16F.
	Subsection (3) requires the published arrangements to include provision for scrutiny by an independent person of the effectiveness of the arrangements.
	Subsection (4) requires the safeguarding partners and relevant agencies to act in accordance with the arrangements.
	Subsection (6) enables the Secretary of State to make regulations which provide for enforcement of the duty to act in accordance with the arrangements, if the Secretary of State considers that no other appropriate means of enforcement is appropriate. These regulations may not create criminal offences. Subsection (5) sets out that these regulations apply where a person is specified as a "relevant agency" in regulations made under section 16E(3), inserted by section 16 of this Act.
	Subsection (7) requires the safeguarding partners to prepare and publish, at least once in every 12 month period, a report on the work that they and the relevant agencies for the local authority area have done as a result of the arrangements and how effective the arrangements have been in practice.