Maintain robust safeguarding procedures in your setting and ensure all staff are aware of responsibilites and processes to follow when dealing with a safeguarding issue.
Use this safeguarding services information sheet to ensure school staff are aware of the appropriate agency to contact when dealing with child protection concerns or making referrals
There is an urgent need to raise awareness of child sexual exploitation amongst parents, schools and other agencies working with children of the risks of sexual exploitation.
While the majority of recorded allegations against school staff do not involve sexual offences, when a sex offender does gain access to children there are multiple victims over many years. Safe recruitment procedures are merely the starting point for the safeguarding process
