Safeguarding Children Procedures 

The Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Procedures include:

• Worried about a child - contains information on how to make a referral to social care
• Contents - contains multi-agency procedures for assessing and providing help
• Documents Library – local guidance to support agencies and practitioners to safeguard and protect children. Includes the Thresholds document, Dispute Resolution and Escalation policy, assessments, briefings and multi-agency forms
• National guidance - Working Together to safeguard children
• Safeguarding Partnership Arrangements - provides guidance based on Working Together 

The procedures are regularly updated. Once you have accessed the online procedures, please save them as a favourite on your PC or device so that you can quickly access them the next time you need to refer to them.