Procedures, Practice Guidance and One Minute Guides
Welcome to the section of the NYSCP website that contains links to key multi-agency safeguarding procedures, practice guidance and one minute guides. They have been designed to support all practitioner who are working with children , young people and their families across North Yorkshire.
If you are unable to access a document, or would like guidance around a particular safeguarding theme that is not covered below, please contact us on: nyscp@northyorks.gov.uk
- Procedures
- Practice Guidance
- Framework for Decision Making: Right help, at the right time by the right person
- National multi-agency practice standards for child protection
- One Minute Guides
Procedures
You will find a comprehensive list of North Yorkshire specific procedures and practice guidance on this page. The NYSCP also work in partnership with Tri.X who provide national policies and practice guidance that are relevant to practice in North Yorkshire that can be accessed here:
Safeguarding Partnership Principles
Recognising Abuse and Neglect
Referrals
Children and Families Practice Guidance: Assessments
Child Protection Enquiries – Section 47 Children Act 1989
Child Protection Conferences
Child Protection Plans
Children and Families Moving Across Local Authority Boundaries or Abroad
Managing Allegations Against Those Who Work Or Volunteer With Children
Information Sharing
Good Practice Supporting the Voice of the Child
Early Intervention: Policy and Provision (House of Commons Library)
NYSCP Practice Guidance
The NYSCP Practice Guidance has been agreed as a framework for multi-agency working in safeguarding across North Yorkshire. The documents reflect relevant national legislation, current guidance in the local context in North Yorkshire.
Practitioners that are involved in the safeguarding of children need to have a working knowledge of these documents and to refer to relevant sections as needed.
Some of these Practice Guidance Documents are links to National resources or developed in partnership with TriX. Below is an A-Z list of all the documents available.
- Bullying – Tri.X
- Challenging victim blaming language and behaviours when dealing with the online experiences of children and young people. UK Council for Internet Safety.
- Child Abuse linked to Faith or Belief including Witchcraft
- Child and Adolescent to Parent Violence and Abuse – Tri.X
- Child Protection Medical Assessments
- Child Sexual Abuse in the Family Environment – Tri.X
- Child Sexual Abuse Medical Assessments
- Child Sexual Exploitation – Tri.X
- Children and Custodial Settings
- Children and Families that go Missing (Including Unborn Chilren) – see also Missing from Home and Care – Tri.X
- Children and young people who display sexually harmful behaviours
- Children from Abroad, including Victims of Modern Slavery, Trafficking and Exploitation – Tri.X
- Children Living Away From Home – Tri.X
- Children Missing Education
- Children Missing from Home and Care
- Children of Parents with Learning Disabilities – Tri.X
- Children of Parents with Mental Health Problems – Tri.X
- Children Visiting Psychiatric Wards and Facilities – Tri.X
- Concealed, Denied or Late Presentation of Pregnancy
- Criminal Exploitation and County Lines
- Dangerous Dogs and Safeguarding Children – Tri.x
- Death of a Care Leaver Process for North Yorkshire and City of York
- Disabled Children – Tri.X
- Domestic Abuse – Including Domestic Abuse Strategy
- Escalation Pathway – Access to CAMHS Inpatient Unit
- Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Practice Guidance
- Forced Marriage – Tri.X
- Home Environment Assessment Tool Guidance & HEAT Toolkit
- Honour Based Violence – Tri.X
- LADO – Managing Allegations Against Those Who Work or Volunteer with Children
- Let’s talk about language: Tools for prompting discussion about out use of language around child exploitation.
- Managing Different Professional Perspectives and Mutual Challenge (Including Professional Resolutions)
- Managing Injuries to Non-Independently Mobile Children
- Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Toolkit
- Multi Agency Child Exploitation and Contextual Safeguarding
- Neglect
- Online Safety – Tri.X
- Out of Area Looked After Children Protocol
- Out of Area Young People Arrested Who Appear at Risk of Criminal Exploitation
- Perplexing Presentations, Fabricated and Induced Illness in Children Practice Guidance
- Pre-Birth – Tri.X
- Prevent Duty Self-Assessment Tool: Further Education – gov.uk
- Prevent: Working with Individuals Vulnerable to Extremism
- Preventing Sudden or Unexpected Death in Infancy
- Private Fostering
- Professional Curiosity
- Radicalisation, Terrorist and Extremist Ideology – Tri.X
- Referrals to Children and Families Service using the updated Universal Referral Form
- Safeguarding Children with a Social Worker, Children in Care and Children Previously in Care at School Tri.X
- Safeguarding Unborn Babies
- Safe Sleep for Babies Practice Guidance – Day or Night Sleep Right Practice Guidance
- Safer Recruitment – Tri.X
- Schools Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy Template 2024 – 2025
- Self Harming and Suicidal Ideation Pathway
- Slang Dictionary and Emoji Dictionary
- Spiritual, Cultural and Religious Beliefs – Tri.X
- Stronger Relationships – (Reducing Parental Conflict)
- Substance Use in Parents and Carers
- Underage Sexual Activity – Tri.X
- Whistleblowing
- Working with Interpreters and others with Special Communication Skills – Tri.X
- Writing Child Protection Policy
- Writing Safeguarding Children Policy and Procedures for Early Years Providers
Framework for decision-making: Right help, at the right time by the right person
The “Framework for decision-making: Right help, at the right time by the right person” has been developed to help and support practitioners working with children across all agencies and organisations, when faced with a decision about the safety and wellbeing of a child or young person. It is a collaborative approach to support and drive our shared ambition of the right help, at the right time from the right service and, importantly, from the right person.
National multi-agency practice standards for child protection
Working Together to Safeguard Children (2023) references National Multi Agency practice standards for child protection (p80). These are for all practitioners working in services and settings who come into contact with children who may be suffering or have suffered significant harm within or outside the home.
Working Together also references expectation for practice for senior leaders, practice supervisors and practitioners in all local authorities as set out in the Children’s Social Care National Framework
The following national multi-agency practice standards for child protection are for
all practitioners working in services and settings who come into contact with children who
may be suffering or have suffered significant harm within or outside the home. The term
practitioner is used throughout the guidance to refer to individuals who work with children
and their families in any capacity, including a range of professionals, such as qualified
social workers and those who work for the statutory safeguarding partners or in education
settings.
One Minute Guides
One Minute Guides (OMGs) are designed to provide professionals with bite sized briefings on key issues to support frontline practice. An A-Z list can be found below, click on the text to open the guide:
- Child Adolescence to Parent Violence and Abuse (CAPVA)
- Child Death Review Process
- CDOP Joint Agency Response
- Child Safeguarding Rapid Review Process
- Consultation Line
- County Lines, Cross Border Gangs and Cuckooing
- Dangerous Dogs
- Death of a Care Leaver
- Deep Dive Multi Agency Audits
- Drug Alert Escalation Process
- Early Help
- Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
- Forced Marriage
- Information Sharing
- Intelligence Sharing
- Leaving a Child at Home
- MACE & Contextual Safeguarding Lv. 1
- MACE & Contextual Safeguarding Lv. 2
- MACE Persons who pose a risk by Exploitation Process
- Making a referral
- Managing Allegations against staff – LADO Notification
- MAST – Multi Agency Screening Team
- MATE Crime
- Missing Child/Young Person
- Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
- No Wrong Door – RAISE Approach
- North Yorkshire Safeguarding Children Partnership (NYSCP)
- Notification of Private Fostering Arrangements
- Operation Choice – Drugs Early Intervention and Prevention for Children and Young People in North Yorkshire
- Operation Divan
- Operation Divan School Guidance
- Parental Conflict – A Guide for Professionals
- Parental Conflict – A Guide for Parents
- Parental Mental Ill Health on Children
- Prevent: Extremism & Radicalisation
- Rapid Review Process
- Safeguarding Children and Adults when Volunteering in North Yorkshire
- Safeguarding Practice Review Group (SPRG)
- Safer Recruitment
- Snapchat
- Stalking Protection Orders
- Strength in Relationships Practice Model
- Submitting a Referral to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) for a child
- SUDI Prevention
- Trusted Relationships
- Using the Children and Families Universal Referral Form