Key documents

Child Protection - Ealing audit and best practice document (word)

National and local safeguarding guidance documents

Safeguarding children and safer recruitment in education (links to DCSF pdf)
Sets out the responsibilities of all local authorities, schools and further education colleges in England to safeguard children and young people.

Working together to safeguard children (pdf)
A DCSF guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.

Pan London child protection procedures (pdf)
3rd edition: sets out how agencies and individuals should work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.

Ealing integrated working and multi-agency thresholds of need guide (pdf)
A resource to support practitioners across Ealing in using integrated processes, such as the Common Assessment Framework, Lead Professional and Information Sharing, which will support integrated working.

Preparing a school child protection policies

Evaluating a school’s child protection policy (word)
Ofsted Guidance - appendix 3 of Ofsted briefing

Example of child protection policy (links to Teachernet)
Model policy.

Staff allegations

Managing allegations of abuse against staff (word)
Procedures for schools responding to allegations of abuse by teachers and other school staff. Summary for Ealing schools and DCSF guidance.

Training

A full overview of all the training provided on safeguarding children courses within Ealing is available on the training section on the EGfL.

Resources

Designated teachers for child protection (excel)
Contact details of designated teachers.

Making a referral pack:

multi-agency referral form (word)
pro-forma for conference reports (word)
child protection advisers contact details (word)
recording injuries diagram (pdf)

Recording and files

Child protection file chronology (word)