Local and national guidance - Nottinghamshire Safeguarding Children Board

Local guidance

• Pathway to Provision [PDF] 

• Common Assessment Framework Handbook [PDF]

• Joint Access Team Handbook [PDF]

National guidance

• Multi Agency Practice Guidelines on Female Genital Mutilation - available on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office website.  

• Multi Agency Practice Guidelines on Forced Marriage - available on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office website.  

• Multi Agency Practice Guidelines on Forced Marriage and Learning Disabilities - available on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office website.  

• Working Together to Safeguard Children 2010 - available on the Department for Education website

• What to do if you are worried a child is being abused - available on the Department for Education website

• Statutory guidance on making arrangements to safeguard and promote the welfare of children under section 11 of the Children Act 2004 (updated March 2007) - available on the Department for Education website

• Safeguarding disabled children - Practice guidance, July 2009 - available on the Department for Education website

• Safeguarding children who may have been trafficked - available on the Department for Education website

• Safeguarding children in whom illness is fabricated or induced - available on the Department for Education website

• Safeguarding children from abuse linked to a belief in spirit possession - available on the Department for Education website

• Safeguarding children and young people from sexual exploitation, June 2009  - available on the Department for Education website

• Safeguarding children and safer recruitment in education - statutory guidance - available on the Department for Education website

• Forced marriage - multi-agency practice guidelines - available on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office website. 
  

Working Together to Safeguard Children - 2012 consultation   

The Department for Education is consulting on updating the 2010 version of Working Together to Safeguard Children. The deadline for giving your views is 4 September 2012.

• Download the consultation document
• Read the consultation document online
  

The 2010 version is still the current version until further notice.