For professionals and volunteers
Child safeguarding advice and information for professionals and volunteers on different topics.
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NSCP resources for professionals and volunteers
The NSCP publishes information and guidance which draw on learning from reviews and case audits. This includes:
Framework for support
The framework for support [PDF] is a new document and replaces the previous pathway to provision. This draft framework is a set of guidance for professionals to use when they are concern about a child. It identifies different levels of need and the responsibilities of those working with children and young people in addressing these.
NSCP local information booklet
This booklet has been designed to read alongside any generic introductory safeguarding children eLearning, in order to add the local context to safeguarding children in Nottinghamshire, including the Nottinghamshire Safeguarding Children Procedures, support services available and contact details of where to make referrals.
It can also be used for practitioners who are new to Nottinghamshire to give them an overview of local information regarding safeguarding children.
Download the local information booklet [PDF].
Appropriate language guide about child exploitation
This language guide helps us think seriously about the way we talk about or describe the impact of child exploitation. Our language will be right when we see a child as a child first, and when we understand the lived experiences of children who have been harmed by those who seek to exploit them.
Child exploitation and abuse: an appropriate language guide [PDF]
We have developed a PowerPoint presentation about the power and use of language. You can access this as an individual, use it for team meetings or during training sessions.
Download the power and use of language presentation [PowerPoint]
EMCYPSAS - East Midlands Children and Young People's Sexual Assault Service (Coral Cove)
EMCYPSAS provides medical care and holistic assessment following sexual abuse for children and young people up to the age of 18 years, or up to 24 years of age if a young adult has a learning disability.
It offers comprehensive services from initial medical examination through to follow-up care and therapeutic support. The service runs from two centres in Nottingham and Northampton.
Anyone can make a referral and the service accepts referrals 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, including bank and public holidays.
Contact EMCYPSAS by telephone at 0800 183 0023
This will get the right help for children and young people at the right time. The advisor can offer you advice, or can guide you through the referral process, taking account of the referral pathway and local safeguarding procedures.
Information sharing
Information sharing is vital to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. A key factor identified in many serious case reviews has been a failure by practitioners to record information, to share it, to understand its significance and then take appropriate action. Find out more on the GOV.UK website.
Neglect toolkit and separate guidance
The neglect toolkit and separate guidance document are provided for professionals across Nottinghamshire and Nottingham City to use in partnership with families when there is concern that the needs of a child are being neglected. It is designed to enable honest conversations with families around areas of strength in their parenting and areas which need to change.
The language in the toolkit has been refreshed towards a strength based approach, and additional sections have been added on parental conflict and positive values. The section on the parents or carers ability to achieve change has been expanded. The requirement to complete the whole toolkit has been removed, in acknowledgement that professionals are likely to have helpful information focussed in only a few areas of the toolkit.
The toolkit and guidance have been produced jointly by the Nottinghamshire Safeguarding Children Partnership and Nottingham City Safeguarding Children Partnership.
Pathway for non-mobile baby with bruising or a suspicious mark
An animation is available to promote the pathway and provides advice to practitioners about seeking an explanation from the baby's carers, and what action to take if no explanation is provided or an unlikely or inadequate explanation is given.
The Bruising in babies pathway can be found in the local resources.
Watch the animation on YouTube.
Rethinking Did Not Attend film
A short film has been developed by colleagues at Nottingham City Safeguarding Children Board to promote the message that children who miss appointments should not be recorded as ‘Did Not Attend’ and instead the term ‘Was Not Brought’ should be used. Using this wording acknowledges that children need an adult to take them to appointments and that if they miss appointments professionals should look at the reasons behind it and consider any safeguarding or welfare issues. You can watch the short film on YouTube.
Safer sleeping risk assessment tool
In Nottinghamshire there are on average 6 deaths each year of babies where an unsafe sleep environment is a modifiable factor in the child’s death.
Safer sleep advice is given out to all new parents in pregnancy and the first few days and weeks of a baby’s life by universal health services. To prevent further deaths we need everyone working with families in Nottinghamshire to help ensure safe sleep advice is followed.
To help tackle this a safer sleep risk assessment tool has been developed, which is open for anyone to use. The tool explains what safer sleep is and helps you identify risk factors for unsafe sleeping. It also provides information to help you support families and includes links to resources that you can download for parents.
The tool and guidance for using it can be accessed here:
If you haven’t seen it, there is a new animation on safer co-sleeping by Lullaby Trust on YouTube.