Introduction
'"Please keep me safe." This simple but profoundly important hope is the
very minimum upon which every child and young person should be able to depend.'
Lord Laming, The Protection of Children in England.
Ensuring the safety and protection of children, and promoting their welfare continues
to be a key challenge for all agencies. Those involved in safeguarding and child
protection need access to up-to-date knowledge and evidence of good practice which
will improve outcomes.
What do we do to help?
- Disseminate key messages from knowledge reviews
- Validate and share examples of local practice which have improved outcomes
- Work with RIEPs to identify and address issues on a regional basis
- Contribute to skill development by working with Children’s Workforce Development
Council,
- National Safeguarding Delivery Unit and National College for Leadership of Schools
and
Children’s Services.
- Offer tailored support to meet identified need, including issues identified by Improvement
and Development Agency (IDEA) peer review .
- Work with Improvement Boards and Local Safeguarding Children’s Board to meet identified
need
- A one-stop-shop of knowledge, data, effective practice and support.
Theme Advisory Groups (TAGs)
The work on this theme is shaped and guided by a Theme Advisory Group.
Click here for more information about theme advisory groups and the membership
for this theme.
The Theme Advisory Group for Safeguarding is chaired by John Coughlan CBE, Director
of Children's Services for Hampshire County Council, who served as interim DCS for
the London Borough of Haringey in December 2008, to help the council address safeguarding
failings.
More information
For more information about this theme contact
Trish Kearney or read our Priority work themes document (43kb PDF file, 13 pages).
You can also sign up for regular email updates.
Publications
Directors' summary
The Safeguarding summary is a concise and accessible overview of C4EO’s current
work in this theme for directors of children’s services.
Knowledge Review
The effective practice to protect children living in 'highly resistant' families
knowledge review summarises the best available evidence from 2000 to 2009 that will
help service providers to improve services and, ultimately, outcomes for children,
young people and their families.
Expert briefings
Safeguarding in elective home education (EHE)
A summary and commentary on the elective home education practice examples submitted
to C4EO
Views and experiences of CYP who have been through the child protection/safeguarding system
Events
Please check again later for more events...
About local practice examples
As with all C4EO themes, C4EO recognises that not all useful knowledge about ‘what
works’ and why, is to be found in research reports and papers. We are therefore
keen to hear about practice that is leading to significantly improved outcomes for
children, young people and their families.
We will incorporate validated local practice examples into our full reviews on what
works, which will be shared with other decision-makers in the children’s services
field. We will also include them as a special body of evidence on this website.
To be validated, practice examples need to be supported by some evidence which shows
the outcomes and changes that have been achieved.
Submitting effective local practice
If you would like to submit an example of effective local practice, please:
- Signup to the C4EO website if you haven't already
- login and complete the local practice online
submission form.
Alternatively you can:
- Download a copy of the local practice submission form (77Kb Word
file, 6 pages)
- Send your completed form to C4EOTeam@NFER.ac.uk.
Further information
If you have any queries regarding validated local practice, please do not hesitate
to contact Monica Hetherington at NFER via
C4EOTeam@nfer.ac.uk
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comparators to create your own customised profile.
We currently have data at National, Regional and Local Authority level. We are loading
information at Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) as it becomes available. At the moment
IDACI 2007, NI 152, NI 116 and other
indices of deprivation are available at LSOA level (accessible by double-clicking the chosen
local authority in the Child Poverty maps).
We are keen to maintain the usefulness of the data views and reports. If you have
any thoughts on how to make the reports more useful, or would like to tell us what
you plan on using the data for please complete the 'feedback
form'.
More information on how to use the interactive data and what the indicators mean
can be found in the help section.
