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Department for Education

• Keeping Children Safe in Education (2021) - Statutory guidance for schools and colleges on safeguarding children and safer recruitment.​
• Working Together to S afeguard Children (2015, updated 2019) - Statutory guidance on inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.​
• What to do if you are worried a child is being abused (2015) - Non-statutory guidance. Helps practitioners identify child abuse and neglect and take appropriate action in response.
• Searching, screening and confiscation at school (2014, updated 2018) - Guidance on school powers to screen and search pupils, and to confiscate items they find.
• Sexual violence and sexual harassment between children in schools and colleges (2017, updated 2021) - Preventing and responding to reports of sexual violence and harassment between children.
• Children Missing Education (2013, updated 2016) - Key principles for local authorities. Covers the duty to identify children missing education - and get them back into education. also useful for school leaders and governing bodies.

Ofsted

• Inspecting safeguarding in early years, education and skills settings (2021)
  

Essex Safeguarding Children Board (ESCB)

• SET Procedures (ESCB, 2019) - Southend, Essex and Thurrock Child Protection Procedures.
• Concerns about the welfare of a child - Child protection information. 
  

Essex Children's Social Care

• Essex Effective Support for Children and Families - How to request support for Children and Families. Information on statutory and other services, guidance including Early Help procedures, useful links.
  

Whistleblowing​

• ​The NSPCC website provides some information and resources about whistleblowing, including an Advice Line and poster. ​

Female Genital Mutilation

• Multi-agency statutory guidance on female genital mutilation (2016, updated 2020) - Home Office, Department for Education, Department of Health and Social Care FGM guidance. For those with statutory duties to safeguard children and vulnerable adults.
• Female Genital Mutilation: the facts (Home Office, 2019)
• Female genital mutilation: resource pack (2015 – updated 2021)
  
• Mandatory reporting of female genital mutilation: procedural information (Home Office and Department for Education, 2015 – updated 2020)
• FGM - guidance for schools (National FGM Centre, 2019)

Other

• iCAN framework - From the University of East Anglia. Helps staff to understand abuse from the child’s point of view. Based on key findings from the 'It takes a lot to build trust' research project. Insights from children about abuse and neglect.
• The National Information Centre on Children of Offenders (NICCO) - Information service for all professionals linking with the children and families of offenders.
• NSPCC - How Safe Are Our Children - Annual report providing an overview of the child protection landscape. Compiles UK child protection data.