Yellow Book - Ealing safeguarding children and young people guidance

What is the Yellow Book?

All groups and organisations in the Voluntary, Community, Faith & Private Sector (VCFPS) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people and must have up-to-date safeguarding and child protection policies and procedures in place.

This Yellow Book offers a policy and procedures model, safeguarding guidance and information on local resources. VCFPS organisations in Ealing are advised to adopt or commit to the Yellow Book guidance to ensure consistency of safeguarding practice in Ealing.

This updated guide is informed by Ealing’s Thresholds of Need Guide as well as statutory safeguarding guidance contained in Working Together 2018 www.workingtogetheronline.co.uk and the London Safeguarding Children Procedures www.londonsafeguardingchildrenprocedures.co.uk

Who should use the yellow book?

The Yellow Book is for all VCFPS staff and volunteers, including trustees, committee members, senior management, religious leaders and sessional workers. It aims to promote good practice in the VCFPS and to ensure that anyone working with children and young people, in any capacity:

• Understands their personal responsibility for safeguarding the children and young people they work with
• Is able to recognise and take appropriate action if there are suggestions that a child/ young person is being abused or may be in need of early help
• Is informed and able to respond in a supportive manner to any child/young person who alleges or discloses that abuse is happening and
• Can confidently take steps to minimise opportunities for misunderstandings by following a code of conduct and good practice guidelines.

The scope of this book does not deal with safeguarding adults who may be vulnerable to abuse, but contact details for reporting concerns to Ealing Adults Services can be found in Chapter 8