Schools, colleges and children's services

Safeguarding children: detailed information

• From: Department for Education, UK Council for Internet Safety, Home Office, Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Department of Health and Social Care
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  Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, Ofsted, Care Quality Commission, Closed organisation: 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
• Safeguarding children in whom illness is fabricated or induced
• The right to choose: multi-agency statutory guidance
• Child abuse concerns: guide for practitioners
• Child sexual exploitation: definition and guide for practitioners
• Childhood neglect: training resources
• Child abuse linked to faith or belief: national action plan

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
• Children missing education
• Drugs: advice for schools
• Sexual violence and sexual harassment between children in schools and colleges

Online safety

• Teaching online safety in schools
• Sharing nudes and semi-nudes: advice for education settings working with children and young people
• Harmful online challenges and online hoaxes
• Education for a Connected World
• UKCIS Online Safety Audit Tool
• Safeguarding children and protecting professionals in early years settings: online safety considerations
• Safeguarding and remote education during coronavirus (COVID-19)
• Digital Resilience Framework
• Online safety in schools and colleges: Questions from the Governing Board

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