Parents & Carers

Whether as parents, carers, family, friends or neighbours we can all play our part in keeping children safe, happy and well.

In this section we've included resources to help you understand the issues and solutions available, from keeping children safe online to acting on your concerns regarding bullying you've seen or abuse you suspect.

If you and your family are already involved in safeguarding or child protection services, this section will help you understand systems like Child Protection Case Conferences and Private Fostering.

Do you have an immediate concern that a child or young person under 18 is at risk or being abused or neglected?

You should contact the Children’s Assessment Team on 0300 123 5012, or the Out of Hours Service on 0300 123 5022.

 We understand:

• that you may only be raising a concern
• that you may be worried how this may impact you
• that you may be worried how this may impact the child you are worried

The Children’s Assessment Team will be able to talk through your concerns; it may be that your phone call will make all the difference for a child.