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 [2]
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 [3]
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 [4]
Please click here to view the Gender Identity Practitioner Toolkit
View Dorset News [5]
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/ [6]
- Annual Reports [7]
- Com Networks [8]
- Practitioners, Partners & Organisations [9]
- Working With Children [10]
- Allegations Against Staff [11]
- Child Neglect [12]
- Child Sexual Abuse [13]
- Dorset Multi-Agency Child Sexual Abuse Toolkit [14]
- 00. Introduction to the toolkit [15]
- 01. Understanding the scale and nature of child sexual abuse [16]
- 02. Groups at increased risk of child sexual abuse [17]
- 03. Types of sexual abuse [18]
- 04. Identifying child sexual abuse: shifting the focus [19]
- 04.1 What are the signs and indicators of child sexual abuse? [20]
- 04.2. Body language, behaviour and ‘testing out’ [21]
- 04.3 Myth-busting ‘gut instinct’ and legitimising professional judgement based on observation [22]
- 05. How to talk to children who have, or you suspect may have, suffered sexual abuse [23]
- 06. Support for non-abusing parents, carers and family members [24]
- 07. How to respond when a child says they have been harmed, then says nothing happened [25]
- 08. Discussing and recording concerns about CSA [26]
- 08.1 Language used when recording concerns about CSA [27]
- 08.2 Information sharing [28]
- 09. Managing risk [29]
- 09.1 The Uses and Limitations of Keep Safe Work [30]
- 10. Next steps following a child telling us they have been harmed/evidence obtained of CSA [31]
- 11. Additional Information and Resources [32]
- Child Sexual Abuse – Information for Professionals [33]
- Child Sexual Abuse – Information for Parents & Carers [34]
- Pantosaurus Dinosaur and Photo-Board Hire [35]
- Useful links and resources [36]
- Dorset Multi-Agency Child Sexual Abuse Toolkit [14]
- Child Trafficking and Modern Slavery [37]
- Domestic Abuse [38]
- Domestic Abuse Toolkit [39]
- 01. Part One – Welcome to the Dorset toolkit for professionals working with domestic abuse [40]
- 02. Part Two – Understanding Domestic Abuse [41]
- 03. Part Three – Engaging with children and adults who have experienced domestic abuse [42]
- 04. Part Four – Responding to domestic abuse [43]
- 05. Part Five – Domestic abuse casework [44]
- 06. Part Six – Resources and Support [45]
- Domestic Abuse Toolkit [39]
- Early Years [46]
- Engaging Children, Young People and Families [49]
- Extra-Familial Harm [50]
- Female Genital Mutilation [56]
- Missing Children [57]
- Online Safety [58]
- Prevent [59]
- Private Fostering [60]
- Safeguarding Children and Young People In Sport [61]
- Safeguarding Under 2-year-olds [62]
- Schools and Educational Provisions [66]
- Dorset [67]
- Supporting Young People Who Have Experienced Bereavement [68]
- Supporting Young People with Disabilities [69]
- Supporting Young People with Long Term Health Conditions [70]
- Supporting Young People with Mental Ill-Health [71]
- Voluntary and Community Sector [72]
- Youth Violence [73]
- Working With Parents and Carers [74]
- Children, Young People and Families [75]
- Children and Young People [76]
- Bereavement [77]
- Emotional Health and Wellbeing [78]
- Online Safety [79]
- Abuse – What is it? [80]
- Bullying [81]
- Child Protection Enquiries and Conferences [82]
- Children & Young People – Child Sexual Exploitation [83]
- Drugs and Alcohol [84]
- Self Harm [85]
- Young Carers [86]
- Parents and Carers [87]
- About Child Protection Processes [88]
- Abuse, what is it? [89]
- Bereavement Support Services [90]
- Car Seat Safety [91]
- Extra-Familial Harm [92]
- Links and sources of support [93]
- Online Safety [94]
- Safer Bathing [95]
- Safer Sleeping Guidance [96]
- Children and Young People [76]
- Learning Hub [97]
- Supporting You In Discharging Your Safeguarding Responsibilities [106]
- Awareness of private fostering and how to report [107]
- Early Help – Dorset [108]
- Guidance on Information sharing, including the Partnership’s Information Sharing Agreement [109]
- Helping you to understand your role in Child Protection Conferences and other statutory child safeguarding processes [110]
- Reporting Concerns and Continuum of Need [111]
- Safer Recruitment [112]
- Supporting you to develop and review your organisation’s child safeguarding policies [113]
- Toolkits [114]
- Pan-Dorset toolkit for practitioners who work with parents and carers who have experienced substance misuse issues [115]
- 01. Introduction to this toolkit [116]
- 02. Substances – nature, use and effects [117]
- 03. Drugs, Policing and the Law [118]
- 03.4 Resources for parents who misuse drugs or alcohol in the Pan Dorset area [119]
- 04. Understanding the need, offering the right help [120]
- 05. Substance misuse and criminal exploitation [121]
- 06. Personas [122]
- 06.3 Persona Scenarios [123]
- Parents and Carers who Experience Mental Ill-Health Dorset Toolkit [124]
- 1. Introduction [125]
- 2. Parents, mental ill-health and safeguarding [126]
- 3. Understanding the legislation [127]
- 4. The experience of children including young carers [128]
- 5. Diversity and inclusion [129]
- 6. Assessment and help – whole family approach [130]
- 6A. Case Study – Miranda [131]
- 6B. Case Study – Connor [132]
- 6C. Aleah’s Story [133]
- 6D. Case Study – Richard [134]
- 6E. Sarah’s Story [135]
- 7. Support for parents and carers [136]
- Pan-Dorset toolkit for practitioners who work with parents and carers who have experienced substance misuse issues [115]
- Working with parents and carers who are sex workers [137]
- Working With Parents and Carers Who Have Experienced Bereavement [138]
- Children, Young People and Families [75]