Child protection conferences and risk outside the home reviews: guidance for professionals

Achieving for Children (AfC) provide social care locally for children subject to child protection. You can access AfC's resources about child protection conferences on their website.

Where the risk to children is solely outside the home, ie extrafamilial, a Risk outside the home review will be used. To read more about this approach, see the AfC Risk outside the home review and plan policy.

When professionals are not in agreement with a child protection conference decision, they should follow the AfC guidance on professional dissent from the decision of a child protection conference.