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.

Find out more:

Training and Development

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.