Guidance

Child protection: working with foreign authorities

Guidance on child protection cases and care orders where the child has links to a foreign country.

Applies to England

Documents

Details

There’s further guidance on what will happen after 31 December 2020 at Cross-border child protection cases: the 1996 Hague Convention.

This guidance is for:

  • local authorities
  • social workers
  • service managers
  • children’s services lawyers

It includes:

  • a set of principles for social workers working on child protection cases and care orders, where the child has links to a foreign country
  • a summary of the main international legislation
  • guidance on agencies and organisations that social workers can seek advice from, or provide information to, when working on these cases
  • links to other relevant guidance
Published 12 September 2014