Safeguarding Useful Links

Safeguarding - Useful Links

Useful Phone Numbers

• If you have an immediate concern that a child is neglected or at risk, call ChECS (Cheshire East Consultation Service) on 0300 123 5012 (option 2) or, if it is outside office hours,  0300 123 5022.

• Childline: 0800 1111

• NSPCC: 0808 800 5000

 

Staying Safe

• PANTS Campaign - advice for chilren on how to stay safe from abuse: https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/underwear-rule/

 

Internet Safety

 

• CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection) -  report online abuse directly to the National Crime Agency: https://www.ceop.police.uk/safety-centre/

• ParentInfo - a collaboration between Parent Zone and NCA-CEOP, providing support and guidance for parents from leading experts and organisations:  https://parentinfo.org/

• Digital Parenting - help and support from Vodaphone about how to build confidence in the online world: https://www.vodafone.com/content/digital-parenting/about.html
• O2 and NSPCC - advice and guidance on how to keep children safe online.  O2 will help you set up parental controls on children's devices no matter what network you are on: https://www.o2.co.uk/help/nspcc 
• NSPCC Share Aware - information for parents about keeping children safe online: https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/
• Think u know - information for children about how to stay safe online: https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/

 

Responses to Traumatic Events

Unfortunately from time to time events in the news, either nationally or locally will have an impact on children. Advice on how to respond to these tragic events is contained below:

• Advice if you’re upset by the news (Newsround):  https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/13865002 
• Supporting children worried about terrorism (NSPCC):  https://www.nspcc.org.uk/whatwe-do/news-opinion/supporting-children-worried-about-terrorism/
• How to talk to children about terrorism (The Conversation):  https://theconversation.com/how-to-talk-to-children-about-terrorism-78290
• Age Appropriate Support Guideposts Following a Traumatic Event (Parry and Oldfield): http://www.safeguardinginschools.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/theconversation-talking-with-children-about-traumatic-events-supplementary-file.pdf

 

Live Well Cheshire East has lots of information and links to services. Click on the link below to be redirected to their page

https://www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/livewell/livewell.aspx

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