Local Safeguarding Services

These services are likely to be more commonly used to support colleagues in the education workforce to keep children and young people safe. Click to expand

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Local Authority - Bristol City Council  

Avon and Somerset Police

Health (NHS and Community Children's Health partnership) 

Other local organisations

Safeguarding in Education Services

 

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Local Authority - Bristol City Council

Education and Skills

• ALP Hub and Information about Suspensions and Expulsions
• Hope Virtual School
• Education Welfare Service and Attendance Toolkit
• Children Missing Education (CME) reporting form
• Children in Employment
• Trading with Schools
• Bristol's SEND Local Offer
• Gypsy, Roma, Travellers and Boatpeople
• Translation and interpreting

Social Care

• First Response
• Children's social care teams (including Families in Focus)
• Safer Options - Education Inclusion Managers
• Adult Social Care (Care Direct)
• Pathway2Independence team
• Bristol Children's Centres and Early Years support
• Local Authority Designated Officers (LADO)

Public Health

• Healthy Schools
• Public Health Topics

RSHE Hub - The South West Relationships, Sex and Health Education Hub is now closed - You can request access to the free resources by emailing rshehub@bristol-schools.uk with your name and school.

Avon and Somerset Police

• Lighthouse -  Victim and Witness Care
• Your area - find out what is going in your area and how to contact your local policing team
• Youth and Policing Education Hub - free lesson plans and resources
• Reporting an incident in a school or college
• Share information about suspected vulnerable or exploited person.
• Crime Stoppers
• Fearless (for young people)
• Bristol Schools Programme
• Prevent - National Referral Form 

Health (NHS and Community Children's Health partnership) 

Drugs and Alcohol

• Bristol Drugs Project

General health

• School Health Nursing

Mental Health

• Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) and Primary Mental Health Specialists
• Be Safe - Support for children who demonstrate Harmful Sexualised Behaviour
• OTR - Off the Record - Charity and social movement
• Bristol Mental Health - Adult mental health

Sexual Heath

• Brook
• Unity
• Sexual Violence and Support Services - The Survivor Pathway

Other local organisations

Agencies working with people seeking sanctuary 

• Bristol City of Sanctuary 

Barnardo's

• BASE - Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)
• ROUTES - Serious Youth Violence (SYV) and Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE)
• Safer Choices - Missing/run away from home

Homelessness

• Shelter

Young Carers

• Young Carers - Carers Support Centre

Youth Services

• Creative Youth Network and Targeted Youth Services
• Learning Partnership West

Victim Support Services

• Next Link
• Missing Link
• Safe Link
• One25
• SARI - Standing Against Racism and Inequality