y failures in child protection following its review into the circumstances leading up to the murders of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson. • The Families First for Children Pathfinder (FFCP) was established to test the deliverability of key recommendations from these reviews. It was designed to improve support and protection for children and families through earlier intervention, stronger multi-agency collaboration, and a more integrated approach to service delivery. This programme landed in a complex policy landscape where multiple government programmes were running in local areas simultaneously, including the Supporting Families Programme, SEND and AP Improvement Plan, a transition in the way that NHS organisations deliver health services (Integrated Care Systems), Family Hubs and Start for Life programmes, and pilots to reduce unnecessary family court delays. There are four key reform strands to the Pathfinder that were delivered as a whole- systems transformation: Safeguarding partners • Strengthening the role of education in multi-agency safeguarding arrangements (MASA), by fully including and representing education and children care settings at all levels of MASA so that opportunities to keep children safe are not missed. • Clarifying and strengthening MASA ways of working and independent scrutiny. 13 • Establishing new, expert-led, Multi-Agency Child Protection Teams (MACPT), integrated within Family Help, to identify significant harm, deliver core statutory child protection functions, and offer expert advice across the wider local system Family Help • Creating single Family Help assessments and plans, to identify needs and capture the services to be provided for children and families • Streamlining and supporting effective multi-agency information sharing an