Maggie Blyth is currently Independent Chair of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Safeguarding Children Boards. For the last nine years she has held a ministerial appointment as Member of the Parole Board for England and Wales. She has also been a Member of the Health and Care Professions Council for three years.

Maggie was formerly a senior civil servant at the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales with oversight of practice improvement for all youth offending services and juvenile secure establishments across both countries. She is co-author (with Enver Solomon) of Effective safeguarding for children and young people: What next after Munro? (Policy Press, 2012).

Foreword ~ Eileen Munro

Introduction ~ Maggie Blyth;

Getting the right things right ~ Mark Gurrey and Eleanor Brazil;

Child protection: 40 years of learning but where next? ~ Ray Jones;

Doing something different: reconfiguring front-line services: opening up the market ~ Chris Wright;

Re-imagining early help: looking forward, looking back ~ Sue White, Kate Morris, Brid Featherstone, Marian Brandon and June Thoburn;

Children should be seen and heard: understanding the child’s experience ~ Jenny Clifton

Responding to adolescent risk: continuing challenges ~ Leslie Hicks

Moving on with Munro: child sexual exploitation within a child protection framework ~ Jenny J. Pearce

Missing children post-Munro ~ Charlie Hedges

Symbolic half-measures? On local safeguarding children boards, their contributions and challenges ~ Michael Preston-Shoot and Martin Pratt;

Conclusion ~ Maggie Blyth.