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The Safe Network: Safeguarding children and young people The Safe Network has been set up to help keep children safe when taking part in activities outside the home. This website offers free resources and information for voluntary organisations and community groups.
Making The Link: Preventing unintentional injury This project is run by the Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) which supports senior policymakers and practitioners in child accident prevention.
Safeguarding in schools: best practice Ofsted has taken the best safeguarding practice from 19 per cent of all maintained primary, secondary and special schools and produced this report.
The Munro Review of Child Protection – Part One: A Systems Analysis Professor Eileen Munro is continuing to work with local children's services professional to research the child protection system to decide what needs changing and how best to do it. She will submit her second report in April and will make recommendations to the government on how to proceed. Tower Hamlets is cited in her interim report as an 'example of innovation, transformation and good practice'.
How will we know when things go wrong? Sir Paul Ennals of the National Children's Bureau argues that vulnerable children still need monitoring and reduced inspections are likely to put them at risk of being overlooked.
Adoption procedures at risk from online searches Due to sites such as Facebook, adopted children are able to reconnect with estranged birth families much earlier than is deemed responsible. This article includes a list of methods for tackling the issue.
Need to Know: Safeguarding Children Mike Baker's video talks through the new rules regarding child protection, including interviews with several key figures.
Safer School Partnerships (SSPs) - Guidance This guidance outlines the benefits of SSPs and how to set up and how to maintain them. It is for head teachers, school staff and governors, police officers, local authorities, extended and children’s services practitioners and others professionally involved in keeping children and young people safe. (The guidance only applies to England.)
Q&A: Vetting and barring scheme A rundown of Sir Roger Singleton's review of the government's scheme to assess those working with children.