Professionals and volunteers
Supporting Professionals in Safeguarding Children and Families
Access essential resources, guidance, and tools tailored for professionals working with children and families in Rotherham. Explore our dedicated sections to strengthen your safeguarding practice and ensure the best outcomes for children.
Information and support for professionals and volunteers
This section offers essential safeguarding information for professionals and volunteers working with children, young people, and their families.
As someone who works closely with children, you are well placed to identify signs of abuse, neglect, bullying, or exposure to harmful online content.
Our website provides advice, guidance and links to other useful resources to help you take appropriate action to protect children.
Explore our policies and procedures section to understand how to effectively safeguard the children you work with.
We also offer threshold guidance to help professionals identify when a child may need additional support.
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Find out more about the training offered by the partnership and how to access it.
Partnership Learning
Find reports from safeguarding practice reviews and audits as well as 7-minute briefings on various subjects.
Practice Standards Group
Guidance for resolving professional disagreements to support effective multi-agency working and improve outcomes for children and families.
7-minute briefings
Briefings on key safeguarding topics including Child-Centred Practice, Trauma Resilience, Professional Curiosity, CSE.
Infant Crying and How to Cope (ICON)
Learn how to support parents and carers in coping with infant crying through the ICON public health message.
Female Genital Mutilation
Understand the legal framework and safeguarding responsibilities around female genital mutilation in the UK.
Serious Case Reviews
Explore lessons from serious case reviews to improve multi-agency safeguarding practices.
Practice Review Cases
Discover insights from practice reviews to strengthen child safeguarding and inter-agency collaboration.
Early Help
Learn how Early Help teams work together to support families through integrated local services.
Child Exploitation
Access guidance, training, and tools to identify and respond to child sexual and criminal exploitation.
Schools Section 175 Audit
Access tools and guidance to help evaluate and improve safeguarding practices.
Graded Care Profile 2 (GCP 2)
Use the GCP2 tool to assess the quality of care provided to children in a structured way.
The Local Authority Officer (LADO)
Understand the LADO’s role in managing allegations against professionals working with children.
Human Trafficking
Learn how to identify and respond to human trafficking and exploitation of vulnerable individuals.
Safeguarding Audit Tool and Guidance
Access tools and guidance to help evaluate and improve safeguarding practices.
Safeguarding Children with a Disability
Explore resources to support the safeguarding of children with disabilities.
Safeguarding and Protecting Children in Sport
Review standards and guidance for safeguarding children in sports settings.
PREVENT
Understand how PREVENT supports those at risk of radicalisation or involvement in terrorism.
Knife Crime and Serious Violence
Access information and resources to address knife crime and serious youth violence.
Hate Crime
Learn how to recognise, report, and respond to hate crimes affecting children and communities.
Multi-Agency Safeguarding and Child Death Reviews
Understand how agencies work together to safeguard children and review child deaths.