Safeguarding Children - Useful Resources

This section contains useful resources for professionals who are involved in Safeguarding Children.

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Assessment Tools

pdf icon Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families (DoH, 2000) [339kb]
pdf icon Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need - Questionnaires and Scales [1Mb]

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Asylum Seekers and Refugees

pdf icon Planning better outcomes and support for unaccompanied asylum seeking children (11 Million) [1Mb]
pdf icon Count Us In: Young Refugees in the Education System (Children's Society) [285kb]
pdf icon Care and Support for Unaccompanied Asylim Seeking Children (Children's Legal Centre) [105kb]
pdf icon Children in the Asylum Process (Children's Society) [679kb]
pdf icon Seeking Asylum Alone [3Mb]
pdf icon How can I support her? [1006kb]

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Bereavement

pdf icon Help is at hand [2Mb]

Bullying

pdf icon Safe to Learn [482kb]
pdf icon Tackling Bullying [758kb]

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Child Protection

pdf icon Achieving Best Evidence in Criminal Proceedings: Guidance on interviewing victims and witnesses and using special measures (Criminal Justice System) [2Mb]

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Disabled Children

pdf icon Understanding Disability and Language (Children's Society) [5Mb]
pdf icon NSPCC: It doesn't happen to disabled children [273kb]

Domestic Abuse

pdf icon Children and young people experiences of domestic violence [101kb]
pdf icon Domestic Violence, Forced Marriage and "Honour"-Based Violence [5Mb]
pdf icon I can't tell people what's happening at home [670kb]
pdf icon How can I support her? [1006kb]

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Education

pdf icon Aiming High for Children [482kb]
word icon Guidance for Safer Working Practice for Adults working with children and young people [485kb]

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Legislation

Please click the following links to go to the appropriate pages of the Office of Public Sector Information website:

Children Act 1989
Children Act 2004
Education Act 2002
Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006
Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007
Adoption and Children Act 2002
Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000
Sexual Offences Act 2003
Licensing Act 2003

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Local Safeguarding Children Boards

pdf icon Statutory Guidance on making arrangements to safeguard and promote the welfare of children under section 11 Children Act 2004 [771kb]
pdf icon Local Safeguarding Children's Boards: A Review of Progress [659kb]

Public Inquiries into Child Deaths

pdf icon Victoria Climbie (Report of Lord Laming, 2003) [1Mb]
pdf icon Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman (Report of Sir Michael Bichard, 2004) [893kb]

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Statutory Guidance

pdf icon Safeguarding Children and Safer Recruitment in Education (DCSF, 2007) [999kb]
pdf icon Safeguarding Children in whom illness is fabricated or induced (DCSF, 2008) [1Mb]
pdf icon Safeguarding children from abused based on a belief in spirit possession (HM Gov, 2007) [384kb]
pdf icon Guidance for Domestic Homicide Reviews under the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (Home Office, 2006) [1Mb]
pdf icon Safeguarding Children who may have been trafficked. 2011 [2Mb]
pdf icon Working Together to Safeguard Children 2010 [2Mb]

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