Safeguarding - Behind closed doors
With referrals to social care and concerns about children rising during the pandemic, what is the impact on early years settings’ safeguarding role? By Meredith Jones Russell
Safeguarding
Business - New regime
What are the new rules and dispensations on inspection under the current restrictions? Melanie Pilcher talks about how to adapt to Ofsted’s expectations
Rebuilding Your Staff Team, Part 4 - Big picture
- Management | Rebuilding your staff team | Workforce | Workforce | Safeguarding & Child Protection | Careers & Training
In the final part of this series, Jo Caswell covers how to support staff with safeguarding vulnerable children
Visitors and Trips – Weighing the risks
Settings and families are becoming more confident about returning to pre-lockdown activities, and each must make their own call, says Laura Hoyland
Rebuilding Your Staff Team, Part 2 – Change for good
Now is the time to encourage staff to see change as a positive process and to reflect on their practice and identify any areas for improvement, explains Jo Caswell
Ofsted: best practice guide–safeguarding - Open and honest
- Inspection | Management | Careers & Training | Safeguarding & Child Protection | Ofsted: best practice guide
How can settings ensure that staff are fully trained up on safeguarding procedures? Hannah Crown looks at good practice at Little Rainbows Day Nursery
Safeguarding - FGM: A criminal act
What is female genital mutilation and how can those who care for young children take action if they...
Guide to: Working Together Guidance
The Working Together to Safeguard Children guidance on multi-agency working was updated in June. So,...
Safeguarding, part 4: role of the DSL - Taking the lead
What exactly is expected of a ‘designated safeguarding lead’, legally and practically, asks Rachel...
Safeguarding, part 3: Workforce - Capable hands
Many of the problems in safeguarding cases – lack of professional curiosity, inadequate information...
Safeguarding, Part 2: The EYFS - Be curious
How does the EYFS best support children in need of protection, and what happens in practice? Rachel...
Child Protection - In harm’s way
Understanding why child abuse happens, and the role of settings in protection. By Eunice Lumsden
Guides & Resources
Policies & Procedures
A five-part series by Laura Henry on creating and implementing the policies and procedures you need for your childcare setting.
Safeguarding
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.
Children & Social Work Act
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.
Ofsted Inspections
Former Ofsted inspector Debbie Alcock covers everything from safeguarding to disqualifications, allegations, preparing for inspections, and understanding Ofsted terminology.
Safeguarding, Part 1: The Current Climate - Too late
Many children in need are pre-school age, but early help is being cut. Rachel Buckler, trainer and consultant, reports
Learning & Development: Digital Technology - A tangled web
- Practice | Understanding the World | Learning & Development | Safeguarding & Child Protection | Early Years Curriculum | More on ICT | Wellbeing
To prepare young children for life spent increasingly online, parents and early years practitioners need to monitor their web use and lead by example, writes John Bolton
Unpicking Ofsted Reports, Part 1: Safeguarding - falling short
In the first of a new series looking at common issues highlighted in Ofsted reports, Pennie Akehurst, former head of the Early Years and Childcare Service at Derbyshire County Council, discusses the areas where settings often fall down on...
Enabling Environments: Risk - Be safe
A new guide to keeping children safe has been published by the Pre-school Learning Alliance
Children’s Services Update - New system
The current safeguarding system has been in operation for many years.
Children and Social Work Act, Part 3: Looked-after Children - Corporate parenting
Ann Marie Christian sets out how the Children And Social Work Act is aiming to strengthen the 30-year-old idea of ‘corporate parenting’
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