Safeguarding children information for professionals

Referral documents

• Children's social care referral

• How to make a good referral into children's social care

• Domestic abuse risk assessment (DASH) form (MARAC/IDAS referral)

• Children's independent sexual violence advocate (CIVSA) referrals

• Local Authority Designated officer (LADO) enquiry/referral form

• Pro forma for schools to request education welfare support

Guidance, procedures and resources

• Adult exploitation - 7 minute briefing

• Barnsley FGM pathway - adult and pregnant women

• Barnsley Multi Agency pathway for Female Genital Mutilation - pathway for child victims and those at risk

• Child death reviews

• Child protection conferences 1-minute guide

• Child protection conferences guidance for parents and carers

• Child protection conferences guidance for professionals

• Child protection conference report form

• Child protection medicals (under review by Barnsley Hospital)

• Contextual safeguarding

• Core group and child in need meeting guidance

• Core group and child in need meeting agenda template

• Education neglect pathway

• Elective home education practice guidance

• Escalation process for resolution of professional disagreements and escalation of child safeguarding issue form

• Graded Care Profile 2 information for professionals

• Graded Care Profile 2 7-minute briefing

• How to make a good referral into children's social care

• Integrated care pathway for pre-birth assessments (under review)

• Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO)

• Local Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews

• MACE case study

• Multi-agency domestic abuse (MADA) meeting request and record template

• Multi-agency learning audit - child sexual abuse in family environment briefing

• Multi-agency learning briefing - Neglect audit

• Neglect screening tool

• Neglect screening tool guidance

• One minute briefing - supporting children with intrafamilial child sexual abuse

• Procedure for bruising or injury to a baby or child

• Prevention of sudden unexpected death in infancy

• Private fostering information for professionals

• Thresholds for intervention guidance

• Safeguarding guidance for schools

• Key findings - Sara Sharif case review

• Key learning for safeguarding practice - Victoria Marten

• Serious incident notification to national safeguarding panel and rapid review process

• South Yorkshire children missing from home and care protocol

• Step-up/step-down protocol for universal services, targeted early help and statutory services

• Working together to safeguard children

Information sharing

• Information sharing within the Integrated Front Door

• Barnsley Safeguarding Children Partnership and Integrated Front Door information sharing agreement

• Sharing community partnership intelligence (South Yorkshire Police)

Strategies

• Anti-bullying strategy

• Contextual safeguarding strategy

• Commitment to tackling bullying and harassment of young people

• Neglect Matters strategy

Infant crying advice

The ICON campaign aims to prevent abusive head trauma in babies by helping parents know that crying is normal. It helps parents to develop ways of managing crying, stopping them getting to the stage where they feel like harming the baby. 

The ICON message is being given by midwives and health visitors prior to and after birth.

If you're working with families with new babies, ask them how they're doing. Remind them of the ICON message and that they can get support if needed.

• I - infant crying is normal -  it peaks around six weeks of age

• C - comforting methods can help soothe a baby, doing this may stop the crying

• O - it's OK to walk away for a few minutes if crying is becoming too much, you just need to make sure the baby is safe

• N - never shake a baby - it can lead to serious lifelong injuries and death

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Private fostering

Private fostering is when a child under the age of 16 (or 18 if they have a disability) is cared for by someone who isn't their parent or a close relative (grandparent, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, or step-parent by marriage or civil partnership) for 28 days or more.

Professionals have a statutory duty to inform our children’s social care team if they become aware of a private fostering arrangement.

Exploitation

Protecting children from trafficking, modern slavery, and exploitation begins with awareness. These resources and e‑learning materials will help you to recognise warning signs, understand the systems that enable exploitation, and take informed, confident action to safeguard vulnerable young people.

• Reporting modern slavery - you can report modern slavery online or download an offline NRM prompt sheet.

• GOV.UK Modern slavery documents and promotional material.

• The Fair Work Agency (FWA) is responsible for enforcing workers’ rights. We’re a single point of contact for workers who believe their rights have not been upheld.

• Causeway Charity exploitation risk checker – a self assessment tool for individuals who think they may be victims of criminal or sexual exploitation.

• Human Trafficking Foundation – Slavery and trafficking survivor care standards.

• The Clewer Initiative 3 minute video on modern slavery.

• NSPCC: Protecting children from trafficking and modern slavery.

• Hope for Justice: Modern slavery and human trafficking online training courses.

• Hope for Justice: Resources and statistics.

• Snowdrop project - Sheffield based charity supporting survivors of modern slavery.