Safeguarding Children in Education - Support & Guidance

Hampshire

• 14-19 Safeguarding Policy  487kb - The Hampshire Post 14 Strategic Board Collaborative Safeguarding Policy & Management Guidance.
• Anti-Bullying - Information about bullying and what is being done in Hampshire to address it.
• Child Protection - Advice & guidance from Children’s Services Department about what to do if you are worried a child is being abused.
• Children in Employment & Entertainment - Advice & guidance from Hampshire County Council Children's Services Child Employment Team.
• Children’s Services Guidance for Thresholds of Statutory Intervention
• Children’s Trust Threshold Chart
• Education Personnel Services - Advice for schools – recruitment and procedures for managing allegations against staff.
• E safety - Advice for staff about safeguarding and protecting young people from the potential risks of online and mobile communication.
• Governor Services - Advice for governors about their statutory safeguarding responsibilities and access to training.
• Hampshire Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement Service -  Guidance about factors that affect child protection with ethnic minority children.
• Health Personal Development and Wellbeing (HPDW) - The HPDW team brings together the teenage pregnancy strategy team, the drug and alcohol strategy manager, Healthy Schools, personal development learning, accreditation, and information and guidance.
• Health & Safety (Schools) - General and specialist health & safety advice for all schools.
• Inspection & Advisory Service (HIAS) - Offers support to schools and other interested users through a range of services. This includes an experienced team of inspectors and advisers, bespoke in-service training, curriculum support centres, curriculum publications, newsletters and websites. The support can be for senior leaders, leadership teams and individual teachers.
• Outdoor Education - Supporting the delivery of off-site activity and educational visits, high-quality outdoor learning, physical education and sport, and the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award in Hampshire, Portsmouth and Southampton.
• Records Retention Schedule
• Services for Young Children - Advice and guidance, support parents, carers and everyone working in childcare and early years education
• Using images of people: photographs, videos and webcams (guidance for schools)

External

DFE

• Behaviour and Discipline in Schools (DFE 2011)
• Guidance for Safer Working Practice for Adults who Work with Children and Young People (AMA 2009)  412kb
• Screening, Searching & Confiscation (DfE 2011)
• Use of Reasonable Force  (DFE 2011)

General

• Mobile phones & wireless networks in schools  26kb - Council of Europe recommendations
• The Munro Review  54kb - An Overview

Ofsted

• The Evaluation schedule for the inspection of maintained schools and academies from January 2012
• The Framework for School Inspection from Jan 2012
• Safeguarding in schools: best practice
• Safeguarding in schools: best practice  36kb (HCC Aide-Memoire)
• Subsidiary guidance supporting the inspection of maintained schools and academies from January 2012