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What to do to protect people who come into contact with your charity through its work from abuse or mistreatment.
Statutory guidance on multi-agency working to help, protect and promote the welfare of children.
Find out about your responsibilities to keep everyone who comes into contact with your charity safe from harm: this includes volunteers, staff and beneficiaries.
Understand how to follow safeguarding procedures when planning remote education strategies and teaching remotely.
Find out how to get help if you have concerns that someone is being abused or neglected under a lasting power of attorney, enduring power of attorney or deputy court order.
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) guidance on preventing and responding to sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment in the international aid sector.
How local authorities should notify incidents to the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel.
We are an independent panel commissioning reviews of serious child safeguarding cases. We want national and local reviews to focus on improving learning, professional practice and outcomes for children. Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel works with the Department for Education...
Find out about the Office of the Public Guardian's policy on protecting adults at risk of abuse or neglect.
This section provides more information and details of safeguarding along the High Speed Two (HS2) route.
Information on statutory safeguarding duties, potential safeguarding issues, and working with safeguarding partners.
Find out how the Office of the Public Guardian protects adults at risk from abuse or neglect.
Information on content filtering and mobile device management to ensure devices are safe to use by young people and families
The Authority is now a part of the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Publication
Guidance to help those who work in early years settings consider their practice and to take steps to safeguard both children and adults online.
Ofsted’s safeguarding policy and guidance for inspectors on handling safeguarding disclosures.
This policy and guidance sets out HMCTS’ approach to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults.
These documents remind health services of their duties to safeguard adults.
Commitments made at the Safeguarding Summit 2018.
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