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Safeguarding

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Guidance, resources and support to help organisations create safe, trusted environments for children, young people, and adults at risk.

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If you believe someone is at immediate risk of harm or in danger, please call the police on 999 straight away.


Your actions could help protect someone from serious harm or abuse. Always prioritise safety.

Resources

External Links

Wirral Safeguarding Children Partnership

https://www.wirralsafeguarding.co.uk/ 

The Wirral Safeguarding Children Partnership is the statutory body for overseeing multi-agency arrangements to safeguard children and young people.  They also offer comprehensive training to professionals.

 

If a child or young person is at risk of harm or abuse please report it to the Wirral Integrated Front Door team.

https://www.wirral.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/childrens-social-care/report-child-risk

 

Safeguarding Adults

https://www.wirral.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/adult-social-care/safeguarding-adults

Use this website to report abuse or neglect of an adult, find policies, procedures, guidance and protocols and safeguarding adults training.

 

NSPCC Learning

https://learning.nspcc.org.uk/safeguarding-child-protection/voluntary-community-groups

This is an excellent resource for advice and templates for Community groups.

 

The Resource Centre

https://www.resourcecentre.org.uk/information/safeguarding/

This is a local organisation down south, that has a really good offer of resources particularly around safeguarding.

Safeguarding Hub

https://www.safeguardingresourcehub.co.uk/Resource-Hub?ugroup=4

This is a list of organisations that provide support for a diversity of issues around safeguarding.

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NCVO

https://www.ncvo.org.uk/help-and-guidance/safeguarding/getting-started-with-safeguarding/six-steps/

NCVO is a comprehensive website designed to support the sector, and have very thorough safeguarding resources.

 

Charity Commission

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/safeguarding-duties-for-charity-trustees

This is Charity Commission guidance that covers Safeguarding and protecting people for charities and trustees.

 

Social Care Institute for Excellence

https://www.scie.org.uk/safeguarding/

Access expert advice and consultancy support from SCIE to drive improvements across children, families and adults’ health and social care

 

Disclosure and Barring Service

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/disclosure-and-barring-service

 

Social Care Institute for Excellence

https://www.scie.org.uk/safeguarding/

Toolkits for Organisations

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NSPCC Safeguarding and Child Protection Standards for the Voluntary and Community Sector

https://learning.nspcc.org.uk/media/1079/safeguarding-standards-and-guidance.pdf

This 2019 edition of the NSPCC’s national safeguarding and child protection Standards is designed to help non-statutory organisations in the UK to strengthen their safeguarding and child protection arrangements for children and young people aged 0–18.

 

 

Safeguarding and child protection self-assessment tool

https://learning.nspcc.org.uk/safeguarding-self-assessment-tool

Our free self-assessment tool will help your school or organisation audit current safeguarding and child protection arrangements. The tool will also help to identify areas for development and support you in making any changes necessary.

 

The Ann Craft Trust Safeguarding Checklist

https://www.anncrafttrust.org/checklist-overview/

Our safeguarding checklist Do you, your staff or organisation understand what safeguarding is? Do you have up to date policies and procedures in place that will protect adults from harm? Our safeguarding checklist allows you to test your individual or organisational safeguarding knowledge and practices.

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NCVO

https://www.ncvo.org.uk/help-and-guidance/safeguarding/steps-safer-organisation/policies-and-procedures/

Use this page to understand the key safeguarding documents you will need. There are links to templates and tools for creating them.

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