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

• 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
• Multi-agency domestic abuse (MADA) meeting request and record template
• Neglect screening tool
• Neglect screening tool guidance
• 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
• 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

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

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.