On the 26th March 2015, the government published ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children 2015’. This is a revised version of the previous guidance from 2013. Many of the revisions have been made to incorporate legislation or statutory guidance that has …
Updates to this article:
3rd March 2015: Information Sharing – Letter from to Local Authorities from the Government 3rd March 2015
27th March 2015: NEW Guidance Published ‘Information Sharing – Advice for safeguarding practitioners’
Information sharing is an important …
Should the Single Central Record be signed by the person who carried out the check?
In many schools, different people are responsible for making different checks, however, this could led to some ambiguity about whether signatures, full names or initials …
In 2002 the British Medical Journal surveyed 6,000 15 and 16 year olds and found that 7% said they had self-harmed during the previous year. In a World Health Organisation study to be published later this month, 20% of 15-year …
What should our school’s safeguarding policy say about FGM?
The statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ published in April 2014, asks schools to ensure that they raise awareness of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Staff should be aware of FGM …
There is such a wealth and spread of legislation and guidance around safeguarding and child protection that I thought it would be useful to pull together all the statutory requirements and Ofsted expectations into one document.
The document should prove …
The role of the Designated Safeguarding Person was specified in the Children Act 2004 and ensured the every organisation had a “named person” for safeguarding children and young people. Prior to that, the role had frequently been known as the …