Contents



Core Procedures

Caption: contents core procedures
     
CP1. Recognising Abuse and Neglect Updated
CP2. Referral and Assessment Updated
CP3. Child Protection Enquiries - Section 47 Children Act 1989  
CP4. Child Protection Conferences  
CP5. Implementation of Child Protection Plans  
CP6. Children and Families Moving Across Local Authority Boundaries Updated
CP7. Allegations Against Staff or Volunteers (People in Positions of Trust), who Work with Children Updated
CP8. Organised and Complex Abuse  
CP9. Information Sharing Guidance  
CP10. Risk Management of Known Offenders  


Partnership Arrangements (Roles and Responsibilities)

Caption: contents Safeguarding Partnership Arrangements
     
PA1. Roles and Responsibilities Updated
PA2. Safe Recruitment and Selection, and the Management of Adults who Work with Children  
PA3. Learning and Improvement Framework  
PA4. Resolving Professional Differences  
PA5. Local Safeguarding Children Partnerships - under review  
PA6. Child Death Reviews  
PA7. Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews  
PA8. Complaints in Relation to Child Protection Conference  
PA9. Quality Assurance  
PA10. Criminal Injuries Compensation  


Practice Guidance

Caption: contents Safeguarding Practice Guidance
     
PG1. Accessing Information from Abroad  
PG2. Adolescent to Parent Violence and Abuse (APVA) New
PG3. Animal Abuse and Links to Abuse of Children and Vulnerable Adults  
PG4. Begging  
PG5. Bruising New
PG6. Bullying  
PG7. A Child Focussed Approach to Safeguarding  
PG8. Child Protection Plans  
PG9. Circumcision  
PG10. Dangerous Dogs and Safeguarding Children Updated
PG11. Diplomats Families  
PG12. Disabilities  
PG13. Domestic Abuse  
PG14. Extremist Ideology  
PG15. Fabricated or Induced Illness/Perplexing Presentations  
PG16. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Updated
PG17. Fire Setting  
PG18. Forced Marriage of a Child  
PG19. Gang Activity / Serious Youth Violence  
PG20. Harmful Behaviour  
PG21. Historical Abuse  
PG22. Home Alone  
PG23. 'Honour' Based Abuse Updated
PG24. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based Forms of Abuse  
PG25. Interpreters / Communication Facilitators  
PG26. Learning Disability (Parenting Capacity)  
PG27. Licensed Premises  
PG28. Living Away from Home - under review  
PG29. Mental Illness (Parenting Capacity)  
PG30. Missing Families  
PG31. Missing from Care, Home or Education  
PG32. Neglect  
PG33. Not Attending School  
PG34. Parents who Misuse Substances  
PG35. Prison Visits  
PG36. Psychiatric Ward Visits  
PG37. Resistant Families  
PG38. Safeguarding Children with a Social Worker, Looked After Children and Previously Looked After Children at School New
PG39. Self Harm and Suicidal Behaviour  
PG40. Sexual Abuse  
PG41. Sexual Exploitation  
PG42. Sexually Active Children  
PG43. Spiritual, Cultural and Religious Beliefs  
PG44. Supervision  
PG45. Surrogacy  
PG46. Teenage Parents  
PG47. Trafficked and Exploited Children Updated
PG48. Young Carers  


Appendices and Protocols

Caption: contents appendices
     
  Appendix 1: Links to relevant legislation  
  Appendix 2: Third sector agencies or community groups keeping children safe  
  Appendix 3: Faith community contacts and resources  
  Appendix 4: Triangle chart for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families  
  Appendix 5: Use of questionnaires and scales to evidence assessment and decision making  
  Appendix 6: MOD contacts  
  Appendix 7: A guide to the acronyms used in these procedures