Key documents and guidance
Key documents and guidance including information regarding Prevent Duty Guidance, Keeping Children Safe.
- Early years online safety guidance October 2022
- BCP safeguarding children contacts - Updated August 2024.
- Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO)
- Coercive or controlling behaviour now a crime (29 December 2015)
- Counter - Extremism Strategy October 2015
- Counter Terrorism Strategy (CONTEST) 2023
- Disclosure and Barring Service
- Disqualification under the Childcare Act 2006
- Dorset Pledge - Our Dorset
- Educate Against Hate - Protecting children from extremism
- Guidance for safer working practice for those working with children and young people in education settings February 2022
- Education Inspection Framework (EIF)
- Information Sharing for practitioners
- Keeping Children Safe in Education
- Law concerning smoking in cars
- Mandatory Reporting of Female Genital Mutilation : Procedural Information
- Prevent duty guidance
- Prevent referral form
- Psychoactive Substances Act (26 May 2016)
- Roles and Responsibilities of the Designated Safeguarding Lead - updated June 2024
- Safeguarding children and protecting professionals in early years settings: online safety considerations
- Statutory Guidance Framework : Controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate or family relationship
- The Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019
- The prevent duty departmental advice for schools and childcare settings
- What to do if you're worried about a child being abused 2015
- Working together to safeguard children 2023 - updated December 2023