Recommendation LAMI-8: Appoint director to ensure effective inter-agency arrangements and assess child needs.

The Management Board for Services to Children and Families must appoint a director responsible for ensuring that inter-agency arrangements are appropriate and effective, and for advising the Management Board for Services to Children and Families on the development of services to meet local need. Furthermore, each Management Board for Services to Children and Families should: • establish reliable ways of assessing the needs and circumstances of children in their area, with particular reference to the needs of children who may be at risk of deliberate harm; • identify ways of establishing consultation groups of both children and adult users of services.