Safeguarding: Government policy

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• Letting children be children: progress report
  Report of progress on the recommendations of the independent review of the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood by Reg Bailey.
  
  Publisher: Department for Education (DfE)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Child protection: information sharing project
  The Child Protection Information Sharing (CP-IS) project helps the NHS give a higher level of protection to children who present in unscheduled health care settings including emergency departments, walk-in centres, mino ...
  
  Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Arrangements to secure children's and adult safeguarding in the future NHS
  The NHS is currently in the process of implementing a major programme of reform following the passage of the Health and Social Care Act 2012. This advice focuses primarily on the new NHS commissioning system and provides ...
  
  Publisher: Department for Education
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Safeguarding children in the reformed NHS: an update on progress on the co-produced work programme
  Since ministers published the work programme on 31 October 2011, the Department of Health (DH) has been working with the Department for Education (DfE) and a wide range of health, local authority and other partners to de ...
  
  Publisher: Department for Education (DfE)
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• National action plan to tackle child abuse linked to faith or belief
  This action plan was created to help raise awareness of the issue of child abuse linked to faith or belief and to encourage people to take practical steps to prevent such abuse. It has been developed in partnership with ...
  
  Publisher: Department for Education (DfE)
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• SCIE Introduction to...children's social care
  This Introduction to... briefing, produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence, gives a brief overview of children's social care (CSC) and the relevant legislation and policy framework. It is aimed at people who ...
  
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  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• 'Striking the balance': practical guidance on the application of Caldicott Guardian principles to domestic violence and MARACs (multi agency risk assessment conferences)
  The purpose of this guidance is to assist those who need to share information about individuals involved in domestic violence (for example, at a multi agency risk assessment conference – a local, multi agency victim-focu ...
  
  Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Hate crime, cyber security and the experience of crime among children: Findings from the 2010/11 British Crime Survey
  This statistical supplementary volume explores topics from the 2010-11 British Crime Survey and provides analysis of the extent of and perceptions towards hate crime, use of the internet and cyber security and experiment ...
  
  Publisher: Home Office
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Call to end violence against women and girls - action plan
  On 8 March 2012 the government launched an updated action plan to tackle all aspects of violence against women and girls.
  
  Publisher: Home Office
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Missing children and adults strategy
  Every year an estimated 200,000 people go missing in the UK. In some cases, missing adults may have made a choice to leave and 'start their lives over again', but the vast majority of missing people, children and adults, ...
  
  Publisher: Home Office
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Tackling child sexual exploitation action plan
  This national action plan brings together, for the first time, actions by the Government and a range of national and local partners to protect children from this largely hidden form of child abuse.
  
  Publisher: Department for Education (DfE)
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• The protection of children online: a brief scoping review to identify vulnerable groups
  This document explores what is currently known about children’s vulnerability to harm from online activity or interactions. It looks at levels of intended and unintended exposure to specific risks, the impact of harm suf ...
  
  Publisher: Department for Education (DfE)
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Safeguarding children across services: messages from research on identifying and responding to child maltreatment - Briefs
  These briefs provide the key messages for relevant professionals in the field. These include strategic and operational managers and practitioners, commissioners and providers of services, and policymakers in all those ag ...
  
  Publisher: Department for Education (DfE)
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Safeguarding children across services: messages from research
  Eleven studies were commissioned as part of the safeguarding children research initiative. This overview focuses on the findings from research studies, but also refers extensively to a further four important research stu ...
  
  Publisher: Department for Education (DfE)
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Ages of concern: learning lessons from serious case reviews
  Ofsted reports have consistently highlighted that babies less than one year old and older children have been the subject of a high proportion of serious case reviews. This report provides a thematic analysis of 482 serio ...
  
  Publisher: Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skill
  Published Date: 2011