Amendments

2024

Information Sharing and Confidentiality	In March 2024 this chapter was updated.
Best Practice Guidance for Safe Recruitment, Selection and Retention for Staff and Volunteers	In March 2024 this chapter was amended in line with revised Keeping Children Safe in Education.
Child Abuse Linked to Spiritual or Religious Belief	This chapter has been refreshed in March 2024.
The HSCP Structure Chart	In March 2024 this structure chart was updated.
Policy and Procedures	This chapter was refreshed in March 2024
Prevent Guidance	This chapter was refreshed in March 2024 and links added to additional guidance in Further Information.
Agency Roles and Responsibilities	In March 2024, a new section, Principles was added into Section 2, Serious Violence Duty, to include information from the Ofsted Framework Joint Targeted Area Inspections of the Multi-agency Response to Serious Youth Violence.
Managing Allegations Against Adults who work with Children and Young People	In March 2024 this chapter was amended in line with revised Keeping Children Safe in Education. New Section 6, The Difference Between an Allegation of Harm and a Concern was added.
Children with a Disability and Child Abuse	This chapter was updated in March 2024.
The HSCP Groups	This chapter was updated in March 2024 to reflect changes in the groups, which support the HSCP system.