Procedures, Practice Guidance and One Minute Guides

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
• Standards and Criteria
• 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:

• https://www.proceduresonline.com/northyorkshire/scb/index.html

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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.

1. Bullying – Tri.X
2. Challenging victim blaming language and behaviours when dealing with the online experiences of children and young people. UK Council for Internet Safety.
3. Child Abuse linked to Faith or Belief including Witchcraft
4. Child Protection Medical Assessments
5. Child Sexual Abuse in the Family Environment – Tri.X
6. Child Sexual Abuse Medical Assessments
7. Child Sexual Exploitation – Tri.X
8. Children and Custodial Settings
9. Children and young people who display sexually harmful behaviours
10. Children from Abroad, including Victims of Modern Slavery, Trafficking and Exploitation – Tri.X
11. Children Living Away From Home – Tri.X
12. Children Missing Education – Tri.X
13. Children of Parents with Learning Disabilities – Tri.X
14. Children of Parents with Mental Health Problems – Tri.X
15. Children Visiting Psychiatric Wards and Facilities – Tri.X
16. Concealed, Denied or Late Presentation of Pregnancy
17. Criminal Exploitation and County Lines
18. Dangerous Dogs and Safeguarding Children – Tri.x
19. Disabled Children – Tri.X
20. Domestic Abuse – Including Domestic Abuse Strategy
21. Escalation Pathway – Access to CAMHS Inpatient Unit
22. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Practice Guidance
23. Forced Marriage – Tri.X
24. Home Environment Assessment Tool Guidance & HEAT Toolkit
25. Honour Based Violence – Tri.X
26. LADO – Managing Allegations Against Those Who Work or Volunteer with Children
27. Let’s talk about language: Tools for prompting discussion about out use of language around child exploitation.
28. Managing Different Professional Perspectives and Mutual Challenge (Including Professional Resolutions)
29. Managing Injuries to Non-Independently Mobile Children
30. Missing from Home and Care
    – See also Tri.X guidance Children and Families that go Missing (Including Unborn Children)
31. Modern Day Slavery and Human Trafficking Toolkit
32. Multi Agency Child Exploitation and Contextual Safeguarding
33. Neglect
34. Online Safety – Tri.X
35. Out of Area Looked After Children Protocol
36. Out of Area Young People Arrested Who Appear at Risk of Criminal Exploitation
37. Perplexing Presentations, Fabricated and Induced Illness in Children Practice Guidance
38. Pre-Birth – Tri.X
39. Prevent: Working with Individuals Vulnerable to Extremism
40. Preventing Sudden or Unexpected Death in Infancy
41. Private Fostering
42. Professional Curiosity
43. Radicalisation, Terrorist and Extremist Ideology – Tri.X
44. Referrals to Children and Families Service using the updated Universal Referral Form
45. Safeguarding Children with a Social Worker, Children in Care and Children Previously in Care at School Tri.X
46. Safeguarding Unborn Babies
47. Safe Sleep for Babies Practice Guidance – Day or Night Sleep Right Practice Guidance
48. Safer Recruitment – Tri.X
49. Schools Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy Template 2024 – 2025
50. Self Harming and Suicidal Ideation Pathway
51. Slang Dictionary and Emoji Dictionary
52. Spiritual, Cultural and Religious Beliefs – Tri.X
53. Stronger Relationships – (Reducing Parental Conflict)
54. Substance Use in Parents and Carers
55. Underage Sexual Activity – Tri.X
56. Whistleblowing
57. Working with Interpreters and others with Special Communication Skills – Tri.X
58. Writing Child Protection Policy
59. Writing Safeguarding Children Policy and Procedures for Early Years Providers

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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.

• Framework for decision-making: Right help, at the right time by the right person

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Standards & Criteria

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

NYSCP’s Standards and Criteria document lays out the multi-agency expectations in respect of:

• Strategy Discussions
• Child Protection Conferences
• Reports to Child Protection Conferences
• Child Protection Conference Documents and Minutes
• Child Protection Plans
• Core Groups
• Child in Need Meetings
• Assessment Standards
• Notifiable Incidents Involving Children
• Private Fostering

The standards reflect the requirements set out in Working Together to Safeguarding Children (2023) and are relevant to quality assurance. This document can also be of use for practitioners working with children and their families as a framework.

• Standards & Criteria

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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:

1. Child Adolescence to Parent Violence and Abuse (CAPVA)
2. Child Death Review Process
3. CDOP Joint Agency Response
4. Child Safeguarding Rapid Review Process
5. County Lines, Cross Border Gangs and Cuckooing
6. Dangerous Dogs
7. Deep Dive Multi Agency Audits
8. Drug Alert Escalation Process
9. Early Help
10. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
11. Forced Marriage
12. Information Sharing
13. Intelligence Sharing
14. Leaving a Child at Home
15. MACE & Contextual Safeguarding Lv. 1
16. MACE & Contextual Safeguarding Lv. 2
17. MACE Persons who pose a risk by Exploitation Process
18. Making a referral
19. Managing Allegations against staff – LADO Notification
20. MAST – Multi Agency Screening Team
21. MATE Crime
22. Missing Child/Young Person
23. Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
24. No Wrong Door – RAISE Approach
25. North Yorkshire Safeguarding Children Partnership (NYSCP)
26. Notification of Private Fostering Arrangements
27. Operation Choice – Drugs Early Intervention and Prevention for Children and Young People in North Yorkshire
28. Operation Divan
29. Operation Divan School Guidance
30. Parental Conflict – A Guide for Professionals
31. Parental Conflict – A Guide for Parents
32. Parental Mental Ill Health on Children
33. Prevent: Extremism & Radicalisation
34. Professionals Consultation Line
35. Safeguarding Children and Adults when Volunteering in North Yorkshire
36. Safeguarding Practice Review Group (SPRG)
37. Safer Recruitment
38. Snapchat
39. Stalking Protection Orders
40. Strength in Relationships Practice Model
41. Submitting a Referral to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) for a child
42. SUDI Prevention
43. Trusted Relationships
44. Using the Children and Families Universal Referral Form

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