How can settings ensure that staff are fully trained up on safeguarding procedures? Hannah Crown looks at good practice at Little Rainbows Day Nursery
What is female genital mutilation and how can those who care for young children take action if they suspect it of happening? Caroline Vollans reports
The Working Together to Safeguard Children guidance on multi-agency working was updated in June. So, what is new? Hannah Crown reports
What exactly is expected of a ‘designated safeguarding lead’, legally and practically, asks Rachel Buckler
Many of the problems in safeguarding cases – lack of professional curiosity, inadequate information sharing – would be solved with the development of a competent workforce, finds safeguarding expert Rachel Buckler
How does the EYFS best support children in need of protection, and what happens in practice? Rachel Buckler, trainer and consultant, reports
Understanding why child abuse happens, and the role of settings in protection. By Eunice Lumsden
Many children in need are pre-school age, but early help is being cut. Rachel Buckler, trainer and...
To prepare young children for life spent increasingly online, parents and early years practitioners...
In the first of a new series looking at common issues highlighted in Ofsted reports, Pennie...
A new guide to keeping children safe has been published by the Pre-school Learning Alliance
The current safeguarding system has been in operation for many years.
A five-part series by Laura Henry on creating and implementing the policies and procedures you need for your childcare setting.
What are the current challenges in social care, and how does this impact on the early years practitioner? What about recent reforms? Safeguarding expert Rachel Buckler provides this guide to safeguarding in the current climate.
Your guide to this legislation which gained royal assent in 2017 and covers changes to local safeguarding and the social work profession, relationships education, and the concept of corporate parenting.
Former Ofsted inspector Debbie Alcock covers everything from safeguarding to disqualifications, allegations, preparing for inspections, and understanding Ofsted terminology.
Ann Marie Christian sets out how the Children And Social Work Act is aiming to strengthen the 30-year-old idea of ‘corporate parenting’
Danielle Butcher has become more aware of risky behaviour after going on an early years- specific Prevent course. By Gabriella Jozwiak
In the wake of the recent spate of terrorist attacks in London and Manchester, some settings are revising their emergency policies. Meredith Jones Russell reports
The death of ‘Polly’ from Derbyshire, a 21-month-old, resulting from her being ‘stamped on’ by her mother, leaves a horrible feeling of ‘here we go again’, says John Simmonds
In light of the Grenfell Tower disaster, which claimed 72 lives in June, Meredith Jones Russell looks at current fire safety advice and how it might affect childcare settings
In this new four-part series on what the new Children and Social Work Act means for the early years sector, we look at changes to the local safeguarding procedures. By Ann Marie Christian
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