Children's services were pushed towards joined-up working and safeguarding reform.
Every Child Matters and the Children Act 2004 were part of a major reform agenda around children's services, safeguarding and joined-up working after serious child protection failures.
This matters because education, social care, health and safeguarding cannot be separated cleanly in a child's life. Systems need to talk to each other.
Awareverse sees this promise and the gap. Joined-up language is powerful, but families often still experience disconnected services.
A common mistake is assuming multi-agency language means agencies are actually working together.
Who had power here, who was left outside, and what would have changed if the human being was seen first?
These deep dives open out from this part of the timeline.