Nothing is more important than children’s welfare. Children who need help and protection deserve high quality and effective support as soon as a need is identified. Everyone who comes into contact with children and families has a role to play.
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is defined as:
- protecting children from maltreatment
- preventing impairment of children’s health or development
- ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care
- taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes
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Local Support

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Safeguarding Adults and Children Board
Multi-agency safeguarding training is important for supporting the collective understanding of local need and for practitioners to be effective in universal services and across the safeguarding pathway. This spans from early help through to targeted and specialist services. To be effective, practitioners need to continue to build their knowledge and skills and be aware of
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NSPCC
The NSPCC provide a variety of group as well as one to one services to schools, many of which are FREE of charge. For information on the programme offers click below: To find out more simply contact the NSPCC Service Centre in Peterborough on 01733 207 620. Prior to making a referral, please contact the
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SAFE
Our Team We are a voluntary service focused on supporting young people identified by services as being at significant/moderate risk of Criminal Exploitation within Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. We can work with young people up to the age of 17, currently we have no minimum age restriction. We take referrals from a range of statutory and
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Documents
Teacher Guidance
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Adult Safeguarding Tool Box
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Child Safeguarding Tool Box May 2019
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Safeguarding Children Partnership Board Identifying Child Abuse Guidance 2020
- Cambridgshire and Peterborough Safeguarding Adults Partnership Board What is Abuse 2020 Guidance
- What You Need To Know About Child Criminal Exploitation Pocket Guide
External Links
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Domestic Abuse and Sexual Abuse Partnership for Young People
- Educate Against Hate
- NSPCC Safer Recruitment in-Education Training
- NSPCC Child Protection in Schools Online Course
- NSPCC Keeping Children Safe – Support for parents – underwear rule
- NSPCC Research Resources Schools – Pants Teaching
- NSPCC Safeguarding self-assessment tool
- Safe For Me Resource Bank
- Safeguarding children GOV
- Sexual Assault Referral Centre