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Safeguarding children

From:: Department for Education, Home Office, Department of Health and Social Care, Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, Ofsted
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Care Quality Commission, Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Closed organisation: HM Inspectorate of Constabulary, HM Inspectorate of Probation, Ministry of Justice, NHS Digital, Official Solicitor and Public Trustee, and Youth Justice Board for England and Wales

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Preventing neglect, abuse and exploitation

Working together to safeguard children
Childhood neglect: training resources
Safeguarding children in whom illness is fabricated or induced
The right to choose: multi-agency statutory guidance
Child abuse concerns: guide for practitioners

Keeping children safe in education and other settings

Keeping children safe in education
Supervision of activity with children
Protecting children from radicalisation: the prevent duty
Secure children’s homes: how to place a child aged under 13
School security
Children missing education
Drugs: advice for schools
Sexual violence and sexual harassment between children in schools and colleges

Safeguarding disabled children

Safeguarding disabled children

Runaway and homeless children

Children who run away or go missing from home or care
Provision of accommodation for 16 and 17 year olds who may be homeless and/or require accommodation

Cross-border child protection

Cross-border child protection cases: the 1996 Hague Convention
Safeguarding children who may have been trafficked
Care of unaccompanied migrant children and child victims of modern slavery
Find help to get your child back from abroad or arrange contact

Social workers' standards

Social work post-qualifying standards: knowledge and skills statements
Knowledge and skills statement for achieving permanence
Information sharing advice for safeguarding practitioners
Directors of children’s services: roles and responsibilities
Apply for Step Up to Social Work

Munro review

Munro review reports

Consultations

Keeping children safe in education: proposed revisions
Working Together to Safeguard Children: revisions to statutory guidance
Social work: national assessment and accreditation system
Reporting and acting on child abuse and neglect

Research and statistics

Statistics: child death reviews
Statistics: children in need and child protection

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