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Safeguarding children

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Department for Education, Home Office, Ofsted, Department of Health and Social Care, Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
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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, Official Solicitor and Public Trustee, and Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
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Preventing neglect, abuse and exploitation

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

Keeping children safe in education and other settings

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

Safeguarding disabled children

  1. Safeguarding disabled children

Runaway and homeless children

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

Cross-border child protection

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

Social workers' standards

  1. Knowledge and skills statements for child and family social work
  2. Knowledge and skills statement for achieving permanence
  3. Information sharing advice for safeguarding practitioners
  4. Directors of children’s services: roles and responsibilities
  5. Apply to 'Step Up to Social Work'
  6. Tell Ofsted about a serious childcare incident: online form for local authorities

Munro review

  1. Munro review reports

Consultations

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

Research and statistics

  1. Statistics: child death reviews
  2. Statistics: children in need and child protection

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