Below you’ll find a list of useful links relating to safeguarding children.
- Child Protection – UNICEF
- Whistleblowing for employees – UK Government
- Inspections: detailed information – Ofsted
- Whisper® – Anonymous Reporting Tool for your School Community – SWGfL
- So You Got Naked Online – SWGfL
- Just a joke? – Childnet International
- Step Up, Speak Up! – Childnet International
- My World triangle – GIRFEC wellbeing resources (SHANARRI)
- Keeping children safe in education
- Working Together to Safeguard Children
- Mandatory Reporting of Female Genital Mutilation – procedural information (PDF)
- Schools, colleges and children’s services Safeguarding children: detailed information
- Child sexual exploitation: definition and guide for practitioners
- Children Act 1989
- Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003
- Children Act 2004
- Children and Adoption Act 2006
- Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006
- Children and Young Persons Act 2008
- Children and Families Act 2014
- Children and Social Work Act 2017
- Data Protection Act 199
- Revised Prevent duty guidance: for England and Wales
- United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Human Rights Act 1998
- Equality Act 2010
- Multi-agency statutory guidance on female genital mutilation
- What is Breast Ironing? Animation – National FGM Centre
- Children and Families (Wales) Measure 2010
- Rights of Children and Young Persons (Wales) Measure 2011
- Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014
- Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015
- Keeping learners safe – Wales
- Wales Safeguarding Procedures and Practice Guides
- Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968
- Children (Scotland) Act 1995
- Protection from Abuse (Scotland) Act 2001
- Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004
- Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation (Scotland) Act 2005
- Protection of Children and Prevention of Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2005
- Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007
- Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012
- Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014
- Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014: National Guidance on Part 12
- Education (Scotland) Act 2016
- National guidance for child protection in Scotland 2021
- Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC)
- Revised Prevent duty guidance: for Scotland
- Criminal Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1967
- The Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995
- The Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 2003
- The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007
- Safeguarding Board Act (Northern Ireland) 2011
- Children’s Services Co-operation Act (Northern Ireland) 2015
- Addressing Bullying in Schools Act (Northern Ireland) 2016
- Safeguarding and Child Protection in Schools – A Guide for Schools
- Co-operating to Safeguard Children and Young People in Northern Ireland
- Child sexual exploitation (CSE): definition and guide for practitioners
- Adultification bias of black children: Q&A with Jahnine Davis – Farrer & Co
- Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review: Child Q –
- CODE C Revised Code of Practice for the detention, treatment and questioning of persons by Police Officers – Home Office
- Fighting child sexual abuse – European Commission
- IWF Annual Report 2021 – Internet Watch Foundation
- Internet watch Foundation
- Global Hotline and Helpline Directory – International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children
- Inhope
- Samaritans
- National Association for People Abused in Childhood (NAPAC)
- The Survivors Trust
- NSPCC