Safeguarding
These documents define and guide the work of the Safeguarding Children Partnership throughout the year:
- Working together to safeguard children 2023 (GOV.UK)
- Safeguarding children annual report
- Self assessment audit 2024
- Children and Young People Plan 2023-26
- BSCP Business Plan 2024-25
Policies, procedures and documents
You can browse the Barnsley Safeguarding Children Partnership policies and procedures online, and find specific policies, procedures and documents below.
- Professional Curiosity 7 Minute Briefing
- Bruising or injury to a baby or child
- Prevention of sudden unexpected death in infancy
- Serious incident notification and rapid review process
- Escalation policy and escalation of child safeguarding issue form
- Child Protection Conference report template
- Child Protection medicals - currently under review by Barnsley Hospital, June 2023
- Neglect Matters strategy
- Anti bullying strategy 2022-25
- Commitment to tackling bullying and harassment of young people
- Integrated care pathways for pre-birth assessments - currently under review, June 2023
- Step-up/step-down protocol for universal services, targeted early help and statutory services
- South Yorkshire children missing from home and care protocol 2023
- South Yorkshire Police intelligence referral form - to pass on information about contextual safeguarding to the police (only when not meeting the threshold for a referral to social care and the child is not at risk). For more details and guidance relating to the intelligence referral form, view the PowerPoint.
- Practice guidance for Elective Home Education: Barnsley
- Information sharing within the Integrated Front Door
- BSCP and IFD Information Sharing Agreement 2024
- Children's social care referral
- Tips on how to make a good referral into the Integrated Front Door
- Contextual safeguarding - resetting the system wide response in Barnsley
- Barnsley Thresholds for Intervention brochure