Keeping children safe in education

Safeguarding guidance and procedures relating to children missing from education, behaviour and safety, elective home education and anti-bullying.

Starting Point

Our contact and referral service for children living in Derbyshire.

Derbyshire's Family Help Service

Information and guidance regarding the Family Help Service in Derbyshire.

DfE Keeping children safe in education

Legislation and guidance from the Department for Education (DfE).

Safeguarding children audit tool for schools

Developed for Derby and Derbyshire schools to support them to complete their annual safeguarding audit and planning.

Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Partnership

Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Partnership information and online procedures.

Child protection conference

What's required for a child protection conference?

Prevent Strategy

Information about the Government Prevent strategy and Prevent Duty for schools

Parental responsibility and private fostering

Information and guidance for discussions with parents and carers

Children missing from education

Guidance, policies and procedures relating to school age children missing from education.

Offsite Safeguarding

Information and resources for schools related to out of school and off site activities.

Bullying behaviour

Advice, guidance and signposting to assist schools with tackling bullying.

Online safety including cyber

Advice, guidance and signposting to assist schools with online safety and cyber issues.

Safeguarding issues for schools and education settings

Keeping you up to date on trending school safeguarding issues and themes.

Safeguarding policies, guidance and protocols

Model policies, safeguarding procedures and guidance.

Safeguarding training, resources and useful contacts

Information to safeguard children, including links to school example tools, showcasing good practice and links to partner agencies.

Important reading

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Extremism and Prevent

Prevent aims to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism.

Parental responsibility

Guidance relating to parental responsibility and separated parents.

Children missing education removal from school roll

Local authority statutory duty to monitor and track children missing in education.

Online safety

Online safety policies, information and guidance.

Children at risk of exploitation

Children at risk of exploitation includes information on child sexual exploitation, trafficking and county lines.

Allegations against professionals

Guidance and procedures if a person's behaviour causes concerns about their suitability to work or volunteer with children or young people.

Safeguarding resources

Agencies with information on safeguarding issues.

Prevent duty for schools

Prevent duty guidance and information for schools.

Drugs and substance misuse

Drug and alcohol issues guidance.

Child protection record keeping guidance

Guidance for schools and educational providers in Derbyshire, on managing child protection/welfare records.

Safeguarding training

Safeguarding training information.

Private fostering

Information, guidance and rules relating to private fostering arrangements.

Children missing from education (CME) policy and guidance

A child missing from education is a child or young person of compulsory school age who is not on a school roll and who is not receiving a suitable education otherwise.

Cyber Choices

An early intervention programme.

Child on child abuse

Information and guidance

Children in entertainment and employment

Advice on licensing children to work in certain types of performance or activity in England.