al multi-agency standards for child protection. Working Together covers the processes, decisions and responsibilities for all safeguarding partners and relevant agencies, including education settings. Children’s social care has social workers, along with other practitioners and partner agencies, who are skilled in building strong relationships with families and carers, assessing children and young people’s safety, and deciding how to protect them. This will involve observing interactions between children, young people and their families or family 42 networks, seeking to understand the capacity of parents and carers to protect them from harm, and listening to their voices. Practitioners will be curious about the daily lives of children and young people and remain alert to the possibility that individuals in their lives may intentionally try to hide their experiences of abuse, neglect and exploitation. Children’s social care will work with whole families, foster carers, residential children’s homes staff, and with partner agencies in the community, to address the reasons why children and young people are experiencing harm. For a minority of children and young people, there are occasions when it is not safe for them to remain living with their birth parents and in these situations children’s social care will explore how family networks and kinship care can help provide safety. Sometimes children’s social care will make an application to go to court, for judicial decisions to be made about where the child should live. Expectations for practice Responding to the voices of children, young people, and families • Every area supports children and young people to explore with practitioners the concerns about their safety and wellbeing, including being supported to share their exp