Safeguarding, Exploitation and Preventing Harm
This section contains toolkits, resources and ways of working that youth justice services and partners can use to support working with children that are at risk of harm from self, from others and to others. If you would like to submit a method of working with children that is working well for your service to the Youth Justice Resource Hub, please complete the submission form.
County Lines Exploitation Peer Parent Webinar and Group Work Sessions for Parents and Caregivers – County Lines Pathfinder (April 2022)
Summary: County Lines Pathfinder have shared their webinar, co-created with parents, and group work sessions to support parents whose children are being criminally exploited. Description: As part of their delivery of the County Lines Pathfinder, Suffolk Youth Justice Service co-produced a parent webinar, alongside parents with lived experience of county lines exploitation and have shared…
Child Criminal Exploitation: Safe and Effective Exit – County Lines Pathfinder (April 2022)
Published: 03/05/2022
Summary County Lines Pathfinder have created a short briefing paper that brings together research and evaluation reports concerning supporting children that are criminally exploited to have a safe and effective exit from exploitation. Description It is well-documented that children who are exploited into county lines activity are at significant risk of harm. Each child and…
Multiagency Mapping: Collaborative Response to County Lines and Child Criminal Exploitation – County Lines Pathfinder (April 2022)
Published: 03/05/2022
Summary County Lines Pathfinder have shared their multiagency mapping process, terms of reference and observations to support partnership work for children at risk or who are being criminally exploited. Description County Lines Pathfinder have shared their multiagency mapping process, terms of reference and observations to support partnership work for children at risk or who are…
Child Criminal Exploitation: Emerging and Promising Practice Approaches Paper – County Lines Pathfinder (April 2022)
Published: 03/05/2022
Summary County Lines Pathfinder have shared a short paper that brings together research, evaluations and serious case reviews to support practitioners and managers working effectively with criminally exploited children. Description County Lines Pathfinder have completed a review of over 30 research reports, serious case reviews and evaluations to support practitioners with an easy-to-read resource; child…
Signs and Indicators Template of Sexual Abuse – Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse (February 2022)
Published: 10/03/2022
Summary The Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse have published a sign and indicator template to support professionals gathering the wider signs and indicators of sexual abuse to build a picture of their concerns. Description The Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse have published sign and indicator template (also available in Welsh) to support professionals…
Keeping Safe: Supporting Conversations with Professionals Working with Children Experiencing Exploitation – County Lines Pathfinder (December 2021)
Summary Suffolk County Council have shared a short tool to support a shared set of professional boundaries, associated assessment and plan for professionals to plan and support conversations with children experiencing exploitation. AimsThe aims of developing shared professional boundaries are to: Description Suffolk County Council have shared their keeping safe overview and as part of…
Multi-Agency Child Criminal Exploitation Team Approach in Norwich: A Review – County Lines Pathfinder (August 2021)
Published: 10/12/2021
Summary Attached is the dissemination proforma for the review of the Norfolk Child Criminal Exploitation Team approach. Description The Child Criminal Exploitation team pilot, which ran from August 2018 to September 2020, was a multi-agency pilot based in the Norwich area of Norfolk. The team was established in response to a growing number of children…
Harmful Sexual Behaviour Procedure – County Durham Youth Justice Service (Updated February 2022)
Published: 23/11/2021
Summary Access to the County Durham Safeguarding Children Partnership procedure for children exhibiting and engaging in harmful sexual behaviour. Description County Durham Youth Justice Service have co-created and supported the re-drafting of Safeguarding Children Partnership procedures concerned with harmful sexual behaviour from children. This was work initiated following an increase in the number of…
Safeguarding Report for Management Board – Neath Port and Talbot Youth Justice and Early Intervention Service (April 2021)
Published: 25/10/2021
Summary Neath Port and Talbot Youth Justice and Early Intervention Service have shared a report template used to support communication and escalation of safeguarding concerns with the Board. Description Neath Port and Talbot Youth Justice and Early Intervention Service have created a safeguarding report template which is used to report back to the Management Board around…
A Guide to Contextualised Safeguarding Practice – Contextualised Safeguarding Network (May 2021)
Published: 14/09/2021
Summary Attached is the link to the Contextual Safeguarding Network guide support adopting contextual safeguarding approaches to practice. Description Contextual Safeguarding Network have published a guide to support staff access the most relevant resources on the Contextual Safeguarding Network for adopting contextual approaches in practice. The guide is organised by incremental stages from learning the…
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