A strategy meeting is where professionals decide if there will be a Child Protection enquiry.
An enquiry is an investigation into a concern made about a child.
Practitioners who have information about these concerns will be at the meeting.
This might be school or nursery staff, health workers like nurses or doctors, or police.
A social worker will be at the meeting.
Parents and children are not invited to strategy meetings.
This is because the concerns are about them.
After the meeting parents should be told what was decided at the meeting and why.
Parents will not be told about the plan if telling them might put the child at risk of harm.
After the meeting, if children are old enough to understand, they should be told what was decided at the meeting and why.
It is important that the children are told in a way that they can understand easily. The social worker can support this.
