NSCB procedures and practice guidance

The Nottinghamshire and Nottingham City Safeguarding Children Boards have jointly produced Child Protection Procedures to provide consistency for those workers who cross boundaries between the two authorities.

Safeguarding children procedures

• The Child Protection Procedures reflect the content in ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children 2010' and were first issued in June 2012 and re-published in September 2012 without change.

• Safeguarding Children Procedures - September 2012 [PDF]

• Memo setting out the key changes to the revised Safeguarding Children Procedures [PDF].

• Safeguarding Children Procedures - September 2012 [web based] 

Practice guidance 

The following guidance documents have been produced jointly by the Nottinghamshire and Nottingham City Safeguarding Children Boards:

• Safeguarding children from abroad practice guidance December 2010 [PDF]

• Practice guidance for all agencies on drug and alcohol using parents May 2009 [PDF]

• Emotional abuse: practice guidance for all agencies [PDF]

• Sexual abuse practice guidance [PDF]

• AMA guidance for safer working [PDF]

• Licensing NSCB policy statement [PDF]

• Inter-agency practice guidance in relation to children and domestic violence [PDF] | summary [PDF]

• Practice guidance regarding missing children from home, care and education May 2012 [PDF]
• Child sexual exploitation PPG [PDF] Revised practice guidance regarding child sexual exploitation was published in December 2011. In order to ensure that local practice regarding the response to child sexual exploitation reflects research and national guidance, published shortly before that date, further work is planned.
• DFE CSE step by step guide for front line practitioners with NCC note [PDF]  
• NSCB disabled children practice guidance [PDF] Revised and updated November 2011
• E-safety practice guidance [PDF] First published November 2011
• Neglect guidance.
• Children and young people who self harm [PDF].