he expertise and insights of other agencies where it is needed. • Practice supervisors oversee robust investigations where there are concerns about abuse, neglect, and exploitation. Alongside practitioners and other agencies, they engage in critical challenge and take decisive and rapid action to keep children and young people safe. 46 • Practice supervisors remain mindful of the impact of child protection enquiries on families and reflect on how enquiries are used in local practice so that they take place only when they are needed. • Practice supervisors work with peers and their teams so that practitioners with the right skill set are assigned to support children, young people, and families. Practice supervisors deploy qualified social workers to protect children and young people from harm. • Practice supervisors help practitioners to identify when the Public Law Outline is needed. Decisions to progress to the Public Law Outline are effective and timely, and only take place when all other child protection options have been explored and where it is in the child’s best interest. • Practice supervisors understand their corporate parenting responsibilities for children in care, and work with leaders and practitioners to prevent children and young people from experiencing harm. They are alert to circumstances where children and young people in care are vulnerable to abuse, neglect and exploitation. They support practitioners to critically analyse and reflect on situations where children and young people might need protection and take rapid action, in partnership with other agencies, to address harm where it is happening. • Practice supervisors provide supervision to facilitate curiosity, learning and reflection, and build on the strengths of practitioners, helping teams to