Let’s Talk Thresholds: What Helps You Decide?
Under government guidance (Working Together to Safeguard Children, 2023), all local areas must publish a threshold document. This document explains how concerns about a child’s safety, wellbeing, or development will be responded to.
We’re creating a new co-produced threshold document and decision-making tool for Cheshire and Merseyside. This new version will reflect not only legal duties, but also the real-life experiences of children, families, and professionals.
This short survey is your chance to help shape a tool that:
- Meets legal requirements while being clear, practical, and easy to use
- Brings clarity and confidence to decisions about consent, risk, and information sharing
- Encourages human, values-led practice
- Supports shared responsibility between professionals, children, families, and carers
Your voice matters. What you share will help make sure the final tool is based on what works, what matters, and what’s needed now.
Please follow the links below:
Practitioners, managers and community services
Strategic Leaders - Designated Safeguarding Leads/Local Safeguarding Partners and Corporate Parents
📅 Survey deadline: Friday 26th September 2025
🔒 Your responses will remain anonymous
🧩 The results will help shape a children and families co-production session in October 2025. We’ll keep you updated.
Thank you for your time and your voice.