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Children and Social Work Act 2017

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The Act has four main purposes:
- Improving decision making, and support for looked after and previously looked after children in England and Wales.
- Improving joint work at the local level to safeguard children and enabling better learning at the local and national levels to improve practice in child protection.
- Promoting the safeguarding of children by providing for Relationships and Sex Education in schools.
- Enabling the establishment of a new regulatory regime specifically for the social work profession in England.