Safeguarding children and child protection

Training, lesson plans, guidance and resources for schools and colleges.

Resources for health practitioners, strategic leads and commissioners including specific guidance about harmful sexual behaviour. 

Advice and guidance for keeping children safe in music, drama, dance, TV and theatre.

How organisations can protect d/Deaf and disabled children from abuse.

Guidance on setting out a safeguarding policy for your organisation.

Explains what organisations need to do to make sure the people who work or volunteer for them are safe to work with children.

Our free online tool helps you audit your school or organisation's current safeguarding arrangements, supporting you to make any changes and identify areas for improvement.

Guidance for organisations, clubs and schools about photographing and recording children during events and activities. 

Guidance on staffing and supervision ratios for working with children.

Information about how child protection works in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales as well as a list of key dates and terms.

Explains what early help is and early intervention is, how to identify a child or family who may need early help and how to provide appropriate support.

Explains how an allegation of abuse may be made against a child, how people who work with children can respond and how to decide if a concern is a child protection issue.

How to recognise, respond to and prevent abuse from people in a position of authority such as teachers, care workers and doctors. Covers current legislation and guidance.

Find out how to recognise the signs that a young person is in an unhealthy relationship and what action you can take.

Guidance for organisations and groups about communicating with children and young people online and through social media.

Organisations can help prevent radicalisation. Find out more about why it's a safeguarding concern, what can make children vulnerable and what you can do to help protect them.

Browse our list of online and face-to-face training courses to gain the skills you need to help keep children safe from abuse and neglect.

Advice on keeping groups of children and young people safe during activities, events, visits, day trips, outings and overnight stays.

Best practice for managing allegations of abuse against someone who works or volunteers with children.

Guidance on how to prepare for having difficult conversations with children and young people and what you need to keep in mind when discussing sensitive topics.

Discover more about the safeguarding and child protection responsibilities that charity trustees have.

If you work with young volunteers, find out what you need to do to best support them and keep them safe.

Our practice examples explain what you need to do to keep children safe in certain situations. 

What measures you need to consider when working on your own with children.

Explains what measures tutors need to take to help keep children safe when conducting tutoring sessions in their own home, at a child’s home or online.

Explains why some children experience issues with continence or incontinence, what schools and organisations can do to support them and when it might be an indicator of a safeguarding concern.

Explains the key issues facing Black, Asian and minoritised​ ethnic children, with guidance for how anyone working with children can help support and keep young people safe.

Explains why LGBTQ+ children might be at greater risk of some types of abuse and shares best practice for professionals on supporting and protecting them.

Training, lesson plans and a dedicated helpline to support secondary schools teachers to confidently deliver inclusive sex and relationships education.

Explains what grooming is, how to recognise it and how people who work with children can respond to it.

Safeguarding in sport means protecting children and young people from abuse, preventing harm and promoting their wellbeing.

Find out more about what duty of care means in child safeguarding and what you need to do keep children safe.