Dorset Safeguarding Children Partnership
Dorset Safeguarding Children Partnership
County Hall, Colliton Park
Dorchester
Dorset
DT1 1XJ
Tel: 01305 221196
LATEST DORSET NEWS
New Information Sharing Duty Guidance – Sep 2026
New statutory Information Sharing Duty guidance has been introduced following the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 and came into effect from 30 September 2026. The new guidance represents a …
Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2026
Link to view on gov.uk website: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a9081309a177a1decf97b00/Keeping_children_safe_in_education_2026.pdf
Gender Identity Practitioner Toolkit
Please click here to view the Gender Identity Practitioner Toolkit
New Child Safeguarding Learning Hub Launched – The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel Learning Hub is a newly launched UK resource designed to bring together learning from serious child safeguarding cases and reviews into one accessible place. https://childsafeguarding.independent-panel.uk/hub/
- Annual Reports
- Com Networks
- Practitioners, Partners & Organisations
- Working With Children
- Allegations Against Staff
- Child Neglect
- Child Sexual Abuse
- Dorset Multi-Agency Child Sexual Abuse Toolkit
- 00. Introduction to the toolkit
- 01. Understanding the scale and nature of child sexual abuse
- 02. Groups at increased risk of child sexual abuse
- 03. Types of sexual abuse
- 04. Identifying child sexual abuse: shifting the focus
- 04.1 What are the signs and indicators of child sexual abuse?
- 04.2. Body language, behaviour and ‘testing out’
- 04.3 Myth-busting ‘gut instinct’ and legitimising professional judgement based on observation
- 05. How to talk to children who have, or you suspect may have, suffered sexual abuse
- 06. Support for non-abusing parents, carers and family members
- 07. How to respond when a child says they have been harmed, then says nothing happened
- 08. Discussing and recording concerns about CSA
- 08.1 Language used when recording concerns about CSA
- 08.2 Information sharing
- 09. Managing risk
- 09.1 The Uses and Limitations of Keep Safe Work
- 10. Next steps following a child telling us they have been harmed/evidence obtained of CSA
- 11. Additional Information and Resources
- Child Sexual Abuse – Information for Professionals
- Child Sexual Abuse – Information for Parents & Carers
- Pantosaurus Dinosaur and Photo-Board Hire
- Useful links and resources
- Dorset Multi-Agency Child Sexual Abuse Toolkit
- Child Trafficking and Modern Slavery
- Domestic Abuse
- Domestic Abuse Toolkit
- 01. Part One – Welcome to the Dorset toolkit for professionals working with domestic abuse
- 02. Part Two – Understanding Domestic Abuse
- 03. Part Three – Engaging with children and adults who have experienced domestic abuse
- 04. Part Four – Responding to domestic abuse
- 05. Part Five – Domestic abuse casework
- 06. Part Six – Resources and Support
- Domestic Abuse Toolkit
- Early Years
- Engaging Children, Young People and Families
- Extra-Familial Harm
- Female Genital Mutilation
- Missing Children
- Online Safety
- Prevent
- Private Fostering
- Safeguarding Children and Young People In Sport
- Safeguarding Under 2-year-olds
- Schools and Educational Provisions
- Supporting Young People Who Have Experienced Bereavement
- Supporting Young People with Disabilities
- Supporting Young People with Long Term Health Conditions
- Supporting Young People with Mental Ill-Health
- Voluntary and Community Sector
- Youth Violence
- Working With Parents and Carers
- Children, Young People and Families
- Learning Hub
- Supporting You In Discharging Your Safeguarding Responsibilities
- Awareness of private fostering and how to report
- Early Help – Dorset
- Guidance on Information sharing, including the Partnership’s Information Sharing Agreement
- Helping you to understand your role in Child Protection Conferences and other statutory child safeguarding processes
- Reporting Concerns and Continuum of Need
- Safer Recruitment
- Supporting you to develop and review your organisation’s child safeguarding policies
- Toolkits
- Pan-Dorset toolkit for practitioners who work with parents and carers who have experienced substance misuse issues
- 01. Introduction to this toolkit
- 02. Substances – nature, use and effects
- 03. Drugs, Policing and the Law
- 03.4 Resources for parents who misuse drugs or alcohol in the Pan Dorset area
- 04. Understanding the need, offering the right help
- 05. Substance misuse and criminal exploitation
- 06. Personas
- 06.3 Persona Scenarios
- Parents and Carers who Experience Mental Ill-Health Dorset Toolkit
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Parents, mental ill-health and safeguarding
- 3. Understanding the legislation
- 4. The experience of children including young carers
- 5. Diversity and inclusion
- 6. Assessment and help – whole family approach
- 6A. Case Study – Miranda
- 6B. Case Study – Connor
- 6C. Aleah’s Story
- 6D. Case Study – Richard
- 6E. Sarah’s Story
- 7. Support for parents and carers
- Pan-Dorset toolkit for practitioners who work with parents and carers who have experienced substance misuse issues
- Working with parents and carers who are sex workers
- Working With Parents and Carers Who Have Experienced Bereavement
